Qwen Code MCP Integration - Bigdata.com API developer docs

Overview

Qwen Code is Alibaba’s open coding agent that runs in your terminal and supports MCP servers natively. This guide walks you through setting up the Bigdata.com connector in Qwen Code using API Key authentication, so you can search financial news, resolve securities, and generate research reports directly from your terminal.

Configuration Steps

Create a Bigdata API key

You can create your API Key in the Developer Platform > API Keys.

Ideally, store the API Key in your password manager, so you can access it in the future.

Add the Bigdata.com MCP connector

The following command will register the Bigdata.com Remote MCP server in Qwen Code at the user scope, so it is available in every project. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key you created in the previous step.

qwen mcp add --scope user --transport http bigdata-com https://mcp.bigdata.com/ \
  --header "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Verify the connection

Confirm the connector is registered and reachable by running:

qwen mcp list

You should see bigdata-com listed with a Connected status.

Bigdata.com MCP successfully connected in Qwen Code

Try it out

Start a new Qwen Code session in your terminal:

qwen

Then ask Qwen Code to use Bigdata to prepare research on any topic. For example:

Using Bigdata, can you help me prepare for the earnings call of Broadcom?

Asking Qwen Code to prepare for the Broadcom earnings call

Qwen Code will call the Bigdata MCP tools during its reasoning loop, retrieve grounded financial content, and produce a structured briefing with analyst consensus, institutional activity, key risks, and suggested questions for the call.