# Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-product-suite/blpapi/  
**Provider:** Bloomberg Product Suite — https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-product-suite/  
**Base URL:** blpapi://localhost:8194  
**Documentation:** https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/

Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) is one of 3 APIs that [Bloomberg Product Suite](https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-product-suite/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Core API, Market Data, and Reference Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The core API providing programmatic access to the Bloomberg data ecosystem including real-time prices, reference data, news, analytics, and Terminal functions.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-product-suite/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Bloomberg Product Suite APIs (2)

- [Bloomberg Data License](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-product-suite/data-license/)
- [Bloomberg Anywhere](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-product-suite/bloomberg-anywhere/)

## Tags

Core API, Market Data, Reference Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-product-suite/blpapi/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-product-suite/.