Bloomberg BLPAPI Core

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.

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Market & Financial Data AE-230.20

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POST /refdata/ReferenceDataRequest Request Reference Data for One or More Securities and Fields #

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bloomberg-reference-data-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Bloomberg BLPAPI Core Reference Data API
  version: '1.6'
  summary: OpenAPI representation of the Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) Core services.
  description: 'The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) is a service-oriented, socket-based API used by the Desktop API,

    Server API (SAPI), B-PIPE, and Bloomberg Platform products.'
  contact:
    name: Bloomberg L.P. — Enterprise / Open API
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  license:
    name: Bloomberg API SDK License
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
servers:
- url: tcp://localhost:8194
  description: Desktop API (default local Bloomberg Professional terminal session)
- url: tcp://{sapiHost}:8194
  description: Server API / B-PIPE host
  variables:
    sapiHost:
      default: sapi.example.com
tags:
- name: Reference Data
  description: Current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for securities (//blp/refdata · ReferenceDataRequest).
paths:
  /refdata/ReferenceDataRequest:
    post:
      tags:
      - Reference Data
      summary: Request Reference Data for One or More Securities and Fields
      description: 'Sends a `ReferenceDataRequest` to the `//blp/refdata` service to retrieve current

        reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for up to thousands of

        securities at once. Limited to 400 fields per request; the API will internally split

        securities into groups of 10 and fields into groups of 128 against the session''s

        `MaxPendingRequests` (default 1024). Supports field overrides, EID return, formatted

        values, UTC timestamps, and forced delayed pricing.'
      operationId: referenceDataRequest
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: ../json-schema/blpapi-core-messages-schema.json#/$defs/ReferenceDataRequest
      responses:
        '200':
          description: ReferenceDataResponse — sequence of zero or more PARTIAL_RESPONSE messages followed by exactly one RESPONSE.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
        4XX:
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: ../json-schema/blpapi-core-messages-schema.json#/$defs/ErrorMessage
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK