# Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-terminals/blpapi/  
**Provider:** Bloomberg Terminals — https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-terminals/  
**Base URL:** blpapi://localhost:8194  
**Documentation:** https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/

Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) is one of 3 APIs that [Bloomberg Terminals](https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-terminals/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include BLPAPI, Market Data, Real-Time, and Terminal API. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

The Bloomberg Open API provides programmatic access to data available in the Bloomberg Terminal including real-time prices, reference data, historical data, news, and analytics. SDKs for C++, Java, Python, C#/.NET, and Perl.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/bloomberg/blpapi-node
- **SDKs** — https://pypi.org/project/blpapi/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-terminals/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Bloomberg Terminals APIs (2)

- [Bloomberg Anywhere](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-terminals/bloomberg-anywhere-api/)
- [Bloomberg Launchpad](https://apis.io/apis/bloomberg-terminals/bloomberg-launchpad/)

## Tags

BLPAPI, Market Data, Real-Time, Terminal API

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