searchPressReleases
Search for company press releases with the FMP Search Press Releases API. Find specific corporate announcements and updates by entering a stock symbol or company name.
This record as markdown: /tools/cfocoder-financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server/searchpressreleases.md
What searchPressReleases does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call searchPressReleases to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
to | string | — | End date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
from | string | — | Start date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
page | number | — | Page number (default: 0) |
limit | number | — | Limit on number of results (default: 20, max: 250) |
symbols | string | — | Comma-separated list of stock symbols |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why searchPressReleases is rated Low
This tool retrieves historical press release documents for research and analysis purposes. It performs a read-only query operation with no side effects, data modification, code execution, or financial transaction capability. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an AI agent could retrieve irrelevant press releases or aggregate them inefficiently, but cannot alter data, execute commands, or cause financial harm.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'searchPressReleases' and description 'Search for company press releases' and 'Find specific corporate announcements' indicate querying/retrieving publicly available data without modification or execution.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs searchPressReleases safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For searchPressReleases, this is the rule to start with:
searchPressReleases is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Financial Modeling Prep, apply this rule, and every searchPressReleases call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about searchPressReleases
Search for company press releases with the FMP Search Press Releases API. Find specific corporate announcements and updates by entering a stock symbol or company name. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
searchPressReleases accepts 5 parameters: to, from, page, limit, symbols. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for searchPressReleases: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep. Nothing to install.
searchPressReleases is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the searchPressReleases rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for searchPressReleases. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
searchPressReleases is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server (cfocoder/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
More on Financial Modeling Prep, and thousands of servers like it.
This server
Across the catalogue