# Datastream Web Service API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/datastream-web-service-api/  
**Provider:** Refinitiv Eikon — https://apis.io/providers/refinitiv-eikon/  
**Base URL:** https://product.datastream.com  
**Documentation:** https://developers.lseg.com/en/api-catalog/eikon/datastream-web-service

Datastream Web Service API is one of 47 APIs that [Refinitiv Eikon](https://apis.io/providers/refinitiv-eikon/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Financial Data, Historical Data, SOAP, and Time Series. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, and a GitHub repository.

API providing access to Datastream content, the world's leading time series database, via SOAP/XML and REST/JSON protocols. Enables strategists, economists, and research communities to access comprehensive financial information with histories back to the 1900s, covering over 48 million financial instruments.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://developers.lseg.com/en/api-catalog/eikon/datastream-web-service/Documents
- **GettingStarted** — https://developers.lseg.com/en/api-catalog/eikon/datastream-web-service/Quickstart
- **Tutorials** — https://developers.lseg.com/en/api-catalog/eikon/datastream-web-service/Tutorials
- **Downloads** — https://developers.lseg.com/en/api-catalog/eikon/datastream-web-service/download
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/datastreamapi/DatastreamPy

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- [Refinitiv Data Library for .NET](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/refinitiv-data-library-for-net/)
- [LSEG WebSocket API](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/lseg-websocket-api/)
- [Real-Time Java SDK](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/real-time-java-sdk/)
- [Real-Time C/C++ SDK](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/real-time-cc-sdk/)
- [Real-Time C# SDK](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/real-time-c-sdk/)
- [Eikon Side by Side Interoperability API](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/eikon-side-by-side-interoperability-api/)
- [Workspace Web Side by Side API](https://apis.io/apis/refinitiv-eikon/workspace-web-side-by-side-api/)

## Tags

Financial Data, Historical Data, SOAP, Time Series

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