BCRP-MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for BCRP Economic and Financial Time Series Data

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👨‍💻 Author

Ivan Yang Rodriguez Carranza

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📋 Table of Contents

• 🎯 Overview
• 🎬 Demo
• 🔧 Tools
• 💬 Prompts
• 🚀 How to Use
• 💡 Examples
• 🏛️ Architecture Diagram
• 📝 License
• 🙏 Acknowledgments

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🎯 Overview

BCRP-MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless access to economic and financial time series data from the BCRP (Banco Central de Reserva del Perú) - Central Reserve Bank of Peru. This server enables AI agents and applications to search, explore, and analyze Peru's economic indicators, financial statistics, and monetary data through a standardized MCP interface.

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🎬 Demo

BCRP_MCP_EN.mp4

Demo (Spanish): https://youtube.com/shorts/gsjC07WR0n0

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🔧 Tools

Name	Input	Description
search_time_series_groups	keywords	Search for time series groups using one or multiple keywords
search_time_series_by_group	time_series_group	Find all time series within a specific group, returns code and name pairs
get_time_series_data	time_series_code start end	Retrieve time series data for a specific code within a date range

Note: When using the remote server, the MCP client may require increased connection timeout settings.

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💬 Prompts

Name	Input	Description
search_data	keyword	Guided workflow to find relevant time series using keyword search
ask	question	Financial analysis workflow that extracts keywords, searches data, and answers questions

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🚀 How to Use

Claude Desktop (Remote Server)

Note: Requires npx which comes bundled with npm. If you don't have npm installed, install Node.js which includes npm.

Add to Claude Desktop config (Claude > Settings > Developer > Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bcrp_mcp_remote": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://bcrp-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Local Server

Note: Make sure you have uv installed. If not, install it from uv.tool.

Clone and install:

git clone https://github.com/rodcar/bcrp-mcp.git
cd bcrp-mcp
uv sync

Add to Claude Desktop config (Claude > Settings > Developer > Edit Config):

Note: Replace /path/to/bcrp-mcp with the actual path where you cloned the repository.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "simple_mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/bcrp-mcp",
        "run",
        "main.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

MCP Inspector (Alternative)

Note: Requires npx which comes bundled with npm. If you don't have npm installed, install Node.js which includes npm.

Note: Replace /path/to/bcrp-mcp with the actual path where you cloned the repository.

Run

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector \
  uv \
  --directory /path/to/bcrp-mcp \                     
  run \
  main.py

Open MCP Inspector (URL displayed in the console) and configure the MCP client with the following settings:

• Transport Type: Streamable HTTP
• URL: http://bcrp-mcp.onrender.com/mcp
• Request Timeout: Increase from default values
• Maximum Total Timeout: Increase from default values
• Proxy Session Token: Use the token generated in the console

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💡 Examples

Prompt	Language	Question	Conversation
ask	Spanish	"¿Cómo ha evolucionado la tasa de interés de referencia en el último año?"	https://claude.ai/share/34df5f90-7a35-474d-b4cf-e8f48c3f9772

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🏛️ Architecture Diagram

BCRP-MCP follows the Model Context Protocol specification and provides a clean abstraction layer over the BCRP API.

graph LR
    CLIENT[MCP Client<br/>Claude Desktop, IDE, etc.] --> MCP_SERVER[BCRP-MCP Server]
    
    subgraph TOOLS ["🔧 Tools"]
        SEARCH_GROUP[search_time_serie_group]
        SEARCH_SERIES[search_time_series_by_group]
        GET_DATA[get_time_series_data]
    end
    
    subgraph "💬 Prompts"
        SEARCH_PROMPT[search_data]
        ASK_PROMPT[ask]
    end
    
    MCP_SERVER --> SEARCH_GROUP
    MCP_SERVER --> SEARCH_SERIES
    MCP_SERVER --> GET_DATA
    MCP_SERVER --> SEARCH_PROMPT
    MCP_SERVER --> ASK_PROMPT
    
    TOOLS --> BCRP_API[BCRP API<br/>estadisticas.bcrp.gob.pe]
    
    style CLIENT fill:#e3f2fd
    style MCP_SERVER fill:#f3e5f5
    style BCRP_API fill:#fff3e0

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• BCRP for providing open access to Peru's economic data
• bcrpy library for the Python interface to BCRP data (https://github.com/andrewrgarcia/bcrpy)

Note: bcrpy was used in early development, is no longer a dependency. Unfortunately the performance for the remote MCP server led to response timeouts.

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