Bloomberg Data Workflows

Bloomberg SAPI (Server API)

The shared-server deployment of BLPAPI, providing real-time subscription and historical request/response market data to applications across a firm. SAPI is not an HTTP API: clients open a TCP session with the BLPAPI SDK against the customer's own Server API host (the Desktop API equivalent is localhost:8194), so no public base URL exists. Identity is the firm's Bloomberg entitlements, not a token.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: bloomberg-data-workflows:bloomberg-server-api
name: Bloomberg SAPI (Server API)
description: 'The shared-server deployment of BLPAPI, providing real-time subscription and historical
  request/response market data to applications across a firm. SAPI is not an HTTP API: clients open a
  TCP session with the BLPAPI SDK against the customer''s own Server API host (the Desktop API equivalent
  is localhost:8194), so no public base URL exists. Identity is the firm''s Bloomberg entitlements, not
  a token.'
humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-connectivity/server-api/
tags:
- Historical Data
- Market Data
- Real-Time Data
- Streaming
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-workflows-packages.yml