specification: API Commons Packages
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Bloomberg Data
providerId: bloomberg-data
generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/repository/releases/python/simple/blpapi/ (200, PEP 503 index),
  https://registry.npmjs.org/blpapi (200), https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ (200),
  https://pypi.org/pypi/blpapi/json (404)
description: >-
  First-party Bloomberg client libraries for the market-data and Data License surface. The
  headline finding is a distribution one: Bloomberg's Python SDK is NOT on PyPI (404) — it is
  served only from Bloomberg's own PEP 503 index at blpapi.bloomberg.com, which answers
  unauthenticated and is where the real version and release date can be read. The Node.js
  binding, by contrast, is on npm and has not shipped since 2015.
packages:
  - name: blpapi
    language: python
    official: true
    registry: bloomberg-pep503
    registry_url: https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/repository/releases/python/simple/blpapi/
    install: python -m pip install --index-url=https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/repository/releases/python/simple/ blpapi
    version: 3.26.7.1
    published: '2026-08-12'
    published_source: >-
      Last-Modified header on https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/repository/releases/python/blpapi-3.26.7.1-py3-none-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
      (HTTP 200). A PEP 503 simple index carries no dates, so the artifact header is the only date available.
    note: >-
      540 distribution files published on Bloomberg's own index; wheels bundle the C++ SDK so a separate
      C++ install is no longer required. Actively maintained — this release is two weeks old.
    applies_to:
      - Bloomberg B-PIPE API
      - Bloomberg Data License API
  - name: BLPAPI C++ SDK
    language: cpp
    official: true
    registry: vendor-download
    registry_url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
    docs: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/cpp/3.26.7/
    version: 3.26.7
    published: null
    note: >-
      Distributed from Bloomberg's own download centre, not a public package registry, so there is no
      metadata endpoint to query for a release date. Version read from the published Doxygen docs tree
      at bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs (HTTP 200), which is versioned per release.
    applies_to:
      - Bloomberg B-PIPE API
  - name: BLPAPI Java SDK
    language: java
    official: true
    registry: vendor-download
    registry_url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
    docs: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
    version: 3.26.7
    published: null
    note: >-
      Not on Maven Central — a search.maven.org query for "blpapi" returns numFound 0. Distributed only
      from Bloomberg's download centre, so no registry date exists to record.
    applies_to:
      - Bloomberg B-PIPE API
  - name: BLPAPI .NET SDK
    language: dotnet
    official: true
    registry: vendor-download
    registry_url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
    docs: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
    version: 3.26.7
    published: null
    note: >-
      Not on NuGet — api.nuget.org returns BlobNotFound for bloomberglp.blpapi. Vendor download only,
      so no registry date exists to record.
    applies_to:
      - Bloomberg B-PIPE API
  - name: blpapi
    language: javascript
    official: true
    registry: npm
    registry_url: https://registry.npmjs.org/blpapi
    install: npm install blpapi
    repository: https://github.com/bloomberg/blpapi-node
    version: 1.2.0
    published: '2015-03-19'
    note: >-
      First-party (published by Bloomberg's npm maintainer, repo under github.com/bloomberg). ABANDONMENT
      SIGNAL: the last release predates the current C++/Python SDK line (3.26.x) by eleven years, so the
      Node.js binding is effectively unmaintained relative to the API it wraps.
    applies_to:
      - Bloomberg B-PIPE API
  - name: blpapi-http
    language: javascript
    official: true
    registry: none
    repository: https://github.com/bloomberg/blpapi-http
    version: null
    published: null
    note: >-
      Bloomberg-published HTTP wrapper for the Open API, source-only on GitHub with no package-registry
      release, so there is no version or date to read. Recorded because it is the only first-party
      HTTP projection of BLPAPI that Bloomberg publishes at all.
    applies_to:
      - Bloomberg B-PIPE API
absent_registries:
  - registry: pypi
    package: blpapi
    status: 404
    url: https://pypi.org/pypi/blpapi/json
    note: Bloomberg deliberately does not publish blpapi to PyPI.
  - registry: maven-central
    query: blpapi
    status: 200
    result: numFound 0
  - registry: nuget
    package: bloomberglp.blpapi
    status: 404
  - registry: rubygems
    package: blpapi
    status: 404
  - registry: crates.io
    package: blpapi
    status: 403
    note: crates.io refused the unauthenticated probe; no first-party Rust crate is expected.
third_party_note: >-
  Widely used community packages (msitt/blpapi-python, xbbg, pdblp, blp, conda-forge/blpapi-feedstock,
  tafia/blpapi-rs) exist but are NOT first-party and are deliberately excluded from packages[].
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com