openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Bloomberg API (BLPAPI) apiauth pagedata API version: '2.54' summary: Logical OpenAPI representation of the Bloomberg API (BLPAPI) v3.x description: 'The Bloomberg API (BLPAPI) is the official client-side library for accessing Bloomberg market data, reference data, news, and analytics services across Desktop API, Server API, and B-PIPE delivery models. > **Important — protocol shape**: The native BLPAPI is **NOT** an HTTP/REST > API. It is a binary, session-oriented, message-passing API delivered over > the Bloomberg Network using the BLPAPI client SDK (C, C++, Java, .NET, Python). > It uses a request/response paradigm and a subscription paradigm rather than > stateless HTTP verbs. > > This OpenAPI document is a **logical mapping** of the BLPAPI service and > schema model into HTTP-shaped operations so that: > > - The request and response message shapes for each Bloomberg service > can be discovered, indexed, and reasoned about by tooling that speaks OpenAPI. > - Agents and code-generators can derive typed client wrappers around the > official BLPAPI SDK. > - The Bloomberg services and their operations become discoverable in > APIs.json indexes alongside REST APIs. > > **It is not a runnable HTTP gateway**. Calls described here must be > translated into BLPAPI SDK requests against a Bloomberg session. > > For Bloomberg''s REST/HTTP products (Bloomberg Data License REST API, > Bloomberg HAPI, Enterprise Data Catalog) refer to those products'' own > developer portals — they are separate from BLPAPI. ## Services The BLPAPI exposes services at well-known service names: - `//blp/refdata` — Reference Data Service (request/response) - `//blp/mktdata` — Market Data Service (subscription) - `//blp/mktvwap` — Custom VWAP Service (subscription) - `//blp/mktbar` — Market Bar Subscription Service (subscription) - `//blp/apiflds` — API Field Information Service (request/response) - `//blp/pagedata` — Page Data Service (subscription) - `//blp/tasvc` — Technical Analysis Service (request/response) - `//blp/apiauth` — API Authorization Service (request/response) - `//blp/instruments` — Instruments Service (request/response) B-PIPE-only services (`//blp/mktdepthdata`, `//blp/mktlist`, `//blp/srcref`) are documented in the BLPAPI Developer''s Guide section 9 and not modeled here. ## Identifier formats Securities follow the format `[Topic Prefix]/SYMBOLOGY[@Pricing Source][Exchange]` with optional Yellow Key (Govt, Corp, Mtge, M-Mkt, Muni, Pfd, Equity, Comdty, Index, Curncy, Client). The default Topic Prefix is `ticker`. Other prefixes include `cusip`, `isin`, `sedol1`, `sedol2`, `bbgid`, `buid`, `wpk`, `sicovam`, `common`, `bsid`, `svm`, `cins`, `cats`. Examples: `IBM US Equity`, `/cusip/912828GM6@BGN`, `MSFT@ETPX US Equity`, `GBPUSD BAAM Curncy`. ## Auth and Permissioning BLPAPI uses Entitlement IDs (EIDs), the `//blp/apiauth` service, and Identity Objects to gate access to data. Three deployment-specific authorization models apply: - **Server API** — IP-based authorization - **B-PIPE** — Token-based authorization with separate authentication step - **Desktop API** — User context derived from the Bloomberg Professional terminal See section 6 of the Developer''s Guide for details. ' contact: name: Bloomberg Production Support url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/ license: name: Permissive (Bloomberg sample license terms) termsOfService: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ servers: - url: blpapi+session://{session} description: 'Logical BLPAPI session endpoint. In production, applications open a `Session` against `Session.Options` configured for Desktop API (`localhost:8194`), Server API (`:8194` with ASID authentication), or B-PIPE (multiple BPIPE hosts with token authentication). ' variables: session: default: localhost description: Session identifier — Desktop, Server API ASID, or B-PIPE BPID security: - desktopAPI: [] - serverAPI: [] - bpipeToken: [] tags: - name: pagedata description: Page Data Service — GPGX page subscription paths: /pagedata/subscribe: post: operationId: pageDataSubscribe tags: - pagedata summary: Subscribe to a Bloomberg GPGX page description: 'Subscribes to a GPGX page topic in the form `GPGX/MONITOR/PAGE` (e.g. `0708/012/0001`). Specifies which rows on the page to subscribe to. Receives PageUpdate (full page) and RowUpdate (partial) events. **BLPAPI service**: `//blp/pagedata` ' requestBody: required: true content: application/x-blpapi-subscription: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageDataSubscription' responses: '202': description: Subscription accepted — page/row updates delivered asynchronously content: application/x-blpapi-event-stream: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageDataEvents' components: schemas: PageUpdate: type: object properties: numRows: type: integer numCols: type: integer rowUpdate: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RowUpdate' PageDataEvents: oneOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageUpdate' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RowUpdate' RowUpdate: type: object properties: rowNum: type: integer spanUpdate: type: array items: type: object properties: startCol: type: integer length: type: integer text: type: string attr: type: array items: type: string enum: - BLINK - DOUBLEWIDTH - INTENSIFY - POINTANDCLICK - REVERSE - UNDERLINE fgColor: type: string enum: - AMBER - BLACK - DARKBLUE - DARKGREEN - DEEPBLUE - FLASHINGBLUE - FLASHINGRED - GRAY - LIGHTBLUE - LIGHTGREEN - ORANGE - PINK - RED - VIOLET - WHITE - YELLOW bgColor: type: string enum: - AMBER - BLACK - DARKBLUE - DARKGREEN - DEEPBLUE - FLASHINGBLUE - FLASHINGRED - GRAY - LIGHTBLUE - LIGHTGREEN - ORANGE - PINK - RED - VIOLET - WHITE - YELLOW PageDataSubscription: type: object required: - topic properties: topic: type: string description: Form `GPGX/MONITOR/PAGE` (e.g. `0708/012/0001`). example: 0708/012/0001 fields: type: array items: type: string description: Row specifiers — `1`, `1,2,3`, or `1,6-10,15,16`. securitySchemes: desktopAPI: type: apiKey in: header name: X-BLPAPI-Session description: 'Desktop API authorization is handled by the local Bloomberg Professional terminal. Applications open a session against `localhost:8194` and the terminal context is the authorization. No token is presented over the wire. ' serverAPI: type: apiKey in: header name: X-BLPAPI-ASID description: 'Server API authorization is by ASID and registered IP address. The application''s IP must be entitled in the Bloomberg Anywhere permissioning system; an `AuthorizationRequest` with `ipAddress` validates the user''s identity at that location. ' bpipeToken: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: BLPAPI-Token description: 'B-PIPE applications acquire a token via the `AuthorizationTokenRequest` operation, then submit the token in an `AuthorizationRequest` to obtain an Identity object. The Identity object is then attached to subsequent service requests. ' externalDocs: description: Bloomberg API Developer's Guide v2.54 (June 30, 2014) url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/