aid: bloomberg name: Bloomberg description: >- 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. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Analytics - Business Intelligence - Data License - Enterprise - Execution Management - Financial Services - Market Data - News - Quantitative Analysis - Trading - Transaction Cost Analysis url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2024-01-20' modified: '2026-04-18' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-market-data-api name: Bloomberg Market Data API description: >- Provides real-time and historical market data, including stock prices, indices, commodities, and currencies. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ tags: - Financial Data - Indices - Market Data - Real-Time - Stocks properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ - type: SDK url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-server-api name: Bloomberg Server API (SAPI) description: >- Delivers real-time market data, historical data, reference data, and calculation engine capabilities from the Bloomberg Terminal for server applications. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-connectivity/server-api/ tags: - Enterprise - Historical Data - Market Data - Real-Time - Reference Data - Server API properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ - type: SDK url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-data-license-api name: Bloomberg Data License API description: >- Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg Data License content including reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG, corporate actions, fundamentals, and alternative data. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/ tags: - Data License - Enterprise - ESG - Pricing Data - Reference Data - Regulatory Data properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/ - aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-emsx-api name: Bloomberg EMSX API description: >- Enables programmatic management and automation of equities, futures, and options trading through the Bloomberg Execution Management System. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/trading/execution-management-system/ tags: - Equities - Execution Management - Futures - Options - Orders - Trading properties: - type: Documentation url: https://emsx-api-doc.readthedocs.io/ - aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-blpapi-core name: Bloomberg BLPAPI Core description: >- 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. Provides Request/Response, Subscription, and Publishing paradigms across services including //blp/refdata, //blp/mktdata, //blp/mktbar, //blp/mktvwap, //blp/mktdepthdata, //blp/apiflds, //blp/instruments, //blp/pagedata, and //blp/tasvc. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ tags: - B-PIPE - BLPAPI - Desktop API - Historical Data - Intraday Bars - Intraday Ticks - Market Data - Open API - Reference Data - Request Response - Server API - Subscription properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ - type: SDK url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/blpapi-core.yml - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/blpapi-core-messages-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/blpapi-core-error-message-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/blpapi-core-market-data-event-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/blpapi-core-subscription-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/blpapi-core-subscription-list-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/bloomberg-market-data-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/bloomberg-security-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/bloomberg-context.jsonld - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/blpapi-core-context.jsonld common: - type: Portal url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ - type: SDK url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/bloomberg - type: GettingStarted url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solutions/asset-management/developer/ - type: Login url: https://console.bloomberg.com/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.bloomberg.com/privacy - type: Support url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/ - type: SpectralRules url: rules/bloomberg-spectral-rules.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/bloomberg-vocabulary.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/market-data.yaml - type: Features data: - name: Real-Time Market Data description: Stream live market data for equities, fixed income, commodities, and currencies via subscription. - name: Historical Data description: Access end-of-day historical time series with periodicity, currency, and corporate-action adjustments. - name: Intraday Tick Data description: Retrieve raw tick-by-tick trade and quote data for granular intraday analysis. - name: Reference Data description: Query current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for securities. - name: Field Discovery description: Search and discover Bloomberg field mnemonics and metadata via the API Data Dictionary. - name: Multi-Language SDK description: Access BLPAPI through C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, and COM Excel SDKs. - type: UseCases data: - name: Quantitative Research description: Build quantitative models using historical and real-time market data for alpha generation. - name: Risk Management description: Monitor portfolio risk exposure using real-time pricing and reference data feeds. - name: Algorithmic Trading description: Feed market data into trading algorithms via EMSX for automated order execution. - name: Regulatory Reporting description: Access regulatory and compliance data through Data License for reporting requirements. - type: Integrations data: - name: Bloomberg Terminal description: Extend Bloomberg Terminal capabilities through the Desktop API integration. - name: Excel description: Access BLPAPI data directly from Excel spreadsheets using the COM Excel SDK. - name: Python description: Build data analytics and machine learning pipelines with the Python BLPAPI SDK. - name: B-PIPE description: Distribute Bloomberg data across enterprise infrastructure using the B-PIPE product. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com