Alpha Vantage · Authentication Profile

Alpha Vantage Authentication

Authentication

Alpha Vantage secures its APIs with apiKey and oauth2 across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode flow(s).

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Methods: apiKey, oauth2 Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: authorizationCode API key in: query

Security Schemes

ApiKey apiKey

· in: query (apikey)

AlphaVantageMCPOAuth oauth2

· flows:

Source

Authentication Profile

generated: '2026-07-22'
method: searched
source: https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key
docs: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - oauth2
  api_key_in:
  - query
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
schemes:
- name: ApiKey
  type: apiKey
  in: query
  parameter: apikey
  description: >-
    Alpha Vantage API key passed as apikey query parameter on every request to
    https://www.alphavantage.co/query. Free keys are claimed self-serve with an email address at
    https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key and have lifetime access; premium keys raise rate
    limits. The literal key `demo` works for the documented example queries.
  sources:
  - openapi/alpha-vantage-stock-time-series-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/alpha-vantage-plugin-openapi.json
- name: AlphaVantageMCPOAuth
  type: oauth2
  description: >-
    The official MCP server (https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp) fronts the API key with OAuth 2.0
    authorization-code + PKCE (S256) and dynamic client registration (RFC 8414 metadata published at
    /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server); the authorization page collects the user's Alpha Vantage
    API key. Scope: alphavantage:read. Legacy API-key-in-URL connection
    (https://mcp.alphavantage.co/mcp?apikey=KEY) is documented as deprecated.
  flows:
    authorizationCode:
      authorizationUrl: https://mcp.alphavantage.co/authorize
      tokenUrl: https://mcp.alphavantage.co/token
      scopes:
        alphavantage:read: Read access to Alpha Vantage market data via MCP
  sources:
  - well-known/alpha-vantage-mcp-oauth-authorization-server.json
  - https://github.com/alphavantage/alpha_vantage_mcp

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