# Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-proprietary-technologies/blpapi/  
**Provider:** Bloomberg Proprietary Technologies — https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-proprietary-technologies/  
**Base URL:** blpapi://localhost:8194  
**Documentation:** https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/

Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) is one of 3 APIs that [Bloomberg Proprietary Technologies](https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-proprietary-technologies/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include BLPAPI, Protocol, and Proprietary API. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Bloomberg's proprietary socket-based API protocol for accessing Bloomberg data, providing a high-performance connectivity layer between client applications and Bloomberg's data infrastructure.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

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

## Other Bloomberg Proprietary Technologies APIs (2)

- [Bloomberg FIGI API](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-proprietary-technologies/figi-api/)
- [Bloomberg Query Language (BQL)](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-proprietary-technologies/bql/)

## Tags

BLPAPI, Protocol, Proprietary API

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