Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Bloomberg provides a suite of developer APIs including BLPAPI, Server API, and the Hypermedia API for programmatic access to market data, analytics, and enterprise services.
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- Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data License, Enterprise, Execution Management, Financial Services, Market Data, News, Quantitative Analysis, Trading, Transaction Cost Analysis
- Created: 2024-01-20
- Modified: 2026-04-18
Provides real-time and historical market data, including stock prices, indices, commodities, and currencies.
Human URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
- Financial Data, Indices, Market Data, Real-Time, Stocks
Delivers real-time market data, historical data, reference data, and calculation engine capabilities from the Bloomberg Terminal for server applications.
Human URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-connectivity/server-api/
- Enterprise, Historical Data, Market Data, Real-Time, Reference Data, Server API
Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg Data License content including reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG, corporate actions, fundamentals, and alternative data.
Human URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/
- Data License, Enterprise, ESG, Pricing Data, Reference Data, Regulatory Data
Enables programmatic management and automation of equities, futures, and options trading through the Bloomberg Execution Management System.
Human URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/trading/execution-management-system/
- Equities, Execution Management, Futures, Options, Orders, Trading
The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) Core -- the foundational service-oriented, socket-based API used by the Desktop API, Server API (SAPI), B-PIPE, and Bloomberg Platform products.
Human URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
- B-PIPE, BLPAPI, Desktop API, Historical Data, Intraday Bars, Intraday Ticks, Market Data, Open API, Reference Data, Request Response, Server API, Subscription
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Real-Time Market Data | Stream live market data for equities, fixed income, commodities, and currencies via subscription. |
| Historical Data | Access end-of-day historical time series with periodicity, currency, and corporate-action adjustments. |
| Intraday Tick Data | Retrieve raw tick-by-tick trade and quote data for granular intraday analysis. |
| Reference Data | Query current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for securities. |
| Field Discovery | Search and discover Bloomberg field mnemonics and metadata via the API Data Dictionary. |
| Multi-Language SDK | Access BLPAPI through C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, and COM Excel SDKs. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Quantitative Research | Build quantitative models using historical and real-time market data for alpha generation. |
| Risk Management | Monitor portfolio risk exposure using real-time pricing and reference data feeds. |
| Algorithmic Trading | Feed market data into trading algorithms via EMSX for automated order execution. |
| Regulatory Reporting | Access regulatory and compliance data through Data License for reporting requirements. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Bloomberg Terminal | Extend Bloomberg Terminal capabilities through the Desktop API integration. |
| Excel | Access BLPAPI data directly from Excel spreadsheets using the COM Excel SDK. |
| Python | Build data analytics and machine learning pipelines with the Python BLPAPI SDK. |
| B-PIPE | Distribute Bloomberg data across enterprise infrastructure using the B-PIPE product. |
Machine-readable API specifications organized by format.
Naftiko capabilities organized as shared per-API definitions composed into customer-facing workflows.
- Bloomberg BLPAPI Core — 9 operations for reference data, historical data, intraday analytics, and field discovery
| Workflow | APIs Combined | Tools | Persona |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Data | BLPAPI Core | 9 | Quantitative Analyst |
FN: Kin Lane
Email: kin@apievangelist.com