generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
description: >-
  Bloomberg ships no general-purpose API CLI. It does publish one first-party
  command-line utility on the API Library download page: the BLPAPI Schema Downloader,
  which retrieves the service schema definitions a BLPAPI client codes against. It is
  recorded here because it is the only first-party command-line surface Bloomberg
  distributes publicly; its binaries are catalogued in
  packages/bloomberg-data-sets-packages.yml.
clis:
  - name: BLPAPI Schema Downloader
    version: '1.2'
    official: true
    install:
      - platform: windows
        method: download-archive
        url: https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/download/releases/raw/files/schemadownloader_1.2-windows.zip
      - platform: linux
        method: download-archive
        url: https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/download/releases/raw/files/schemadownloader_1.2-linux.tar.gz
    purpose: >-
      Download the schema definitions for BLPAPI services so a client can be built
      against the current message and field definitions.
    commands: []
    commands_note: >-
      The command and flag surface is documented inside the downloaded archive, not on
      any public page. It was NOT read and is not reconstructed here - an empty
      commands[] is the honest state.
absent:
  - name: Data License / HAPI CLI
    note: >-
      No first-party CLI for the HTTP Data License API was found. Bloomberg's own
      documented non-SDK access paths for Data License are the REST API, SFTP, and cloud
      delivery.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com