generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
provider: Bloomberg Applications
providerId: bloomberg-applications
description: >-
  Bloomberg publishes one first-party command-line tool for this API surface: the BLPAPI Schema
  Downloader. There is no general-purpose Bloomberg API CLI — no `bbg`, no `blp` binary that
  wraps the data services — so this file records exactly the one tool that exists rather than
  padding a command surface Bloomberg does not ship.
tools:
  - name: schemadownloader
    version: '1.2'
    official: true
    purpose: >-
      Downloads BLPAPI service schemas as standalone files so they can be replayed through the
      SDK's TestUtil component to construct messages and test application behaviour offline.
    significance: >-
      This is the only published route to a machine-readable Bloomberg service schema. It does not
      make one publicly available: the tool must run against an authenticated Bloomberg endpoint,
      so the schema is retrievable by an entitled customer and by nobody else.
    install:
      windows: https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/download/releases/raw/files/schemadownloader_1.2-windows.zip
      linux: https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/download/releases/raw/files/schemadownloader_1.2-linux.tar.gz
    requires: An authenticated BLPAPI session (Desktop API, Server API or B-PIPE).
    commands: []
    commands_note: >-
      Bloomberg publishes no flag or subcommand reference for this tool on any anonymously
      reachable page; usage is documented inside the download and in the SDK reference. Left empty
      rather than reconstructed.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com