OilPriceAPI MCP Server

The energy commodity MCP server. Real-time oil, gas, and commodity prices for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible client.

Features

• 4 Tools — get prices, market overviews, price comparisons, commodity listings
• 4 Resources — subscribable price snapshots for Brent, WTI, Natural Gas, and all commodities
• 4 Prompts — pre-built analyst templates (daily briefing, spread analysis, gas market, commodity report)
• Natural language — ask for "brent oil" or "natural gas", not codes
• 40+ commodities — oil, gas, coal, refined products, metals, forex

Quick Start

npx oilpriceapi-mcp

Installation

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oilpriceapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "oilpriceapi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OILPRICEAPI_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Add to your project's .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oilpriceapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "oilpriceapi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OILPRICEAPI_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oilpriceapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "oilpriceapi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OILPRICEAPI_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code + Cline

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "oilpriceapi": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "oilpriceapi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OILPRICEAPI_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oilpriceapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "oilpriceapi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OILPRICEAPI_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Global Install

npm install -g oilpriceapi-mcp

Getting an API Key

1. Sign up at oilpriceapi.com
2. Get your API key from the dashboard
3. Add it to your MCP config as shown above

Tools

get_commodity_price

Get the current price of a specific commodity.

"What's the current Brent oil price?"
"Get the price of natural gas"

get_market_overview

Get prices for all commodities, optionally filtered by category (oil, gas, coal, refined, all).

"Give me a market overview"
"Show all oil prices"

compare_prices

Compare prices between 2-5 commodities.

"Compare Brent and WTI prices"
"What's the spread between US and European gas?"

list_commodities

List all available commodities and their codes.

Resources

Subscribable price data (JSON):

| Resource | URI | Description | | ----------- | --------------------- | -------------------------------- | | Brent Crude | price://brent | Global benchmark crude oil price | | WTI Crude | price://wti | US benchmark crude oil price | | Natural Gas | price://natural-gas | US Henry Hub natural gas price | | All Prices | price://all | All tracked commodity prices |

Prompts

Pre-built analyst templates:

| Prompt | Description | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | | daily-briefing | Energy market daily briefing with key prices and movers | | brent-wti-spread | Analyze the Brent-WTI crude oil spread | | gas-market-analysis | Compare US vs European natural gas markets | | commodity-report | Detailed report on a specific commodity (parameterized) |

Supported Commodities

Crude Oil

• Brent Crude (global benchmark)
• WTI (US benchmark)
• Urals (Russian)
• Dubai (Middle East)

Natural Gas

• US Henry Hub ($/MMBtu)
• UK NBP (pence/therm)
• European TTF (EUR/MWh)

Coal

• Thermal Coal
• Newcastle Coal (Asia-Pacific)

Refined Products

• Diesel, Gasoline, RBOB Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Heating Oil

Other

• Gold, EU Carbon Allowances, EUR/USD, GBP/USD

Natural Language Support

| You say | We understand | | -------------------------- | --------------- | | "brent oil", "brent crude" | BRENT_CRUDE_USD | | "wti", "us oil" | WTI_USD | | "natural gas", "henry hub" | NATURAL_GAS_USD | | "european gas", "ttf" | DUTCH_TTF_EUR | | "diesel" | DIESEL_USD | | "gold" | GOLD_USD |

Development

npm install
npm run build
OILPRICEAPI_KEY=your-key node build/index.js

License

MIT

Links

• OilPriceAPI
• API Documentation
• MCP Protocol