Bloomberg Applications

aid: bloomberg-applications
name: Bloomberg Applications
description: Bloomberg's financial data and application API surface, covering the BLPAPI family (Desktop API, Server API and
  B-PIPE) reached through first-party C++, Java, C#/.NET and Python SDKs, and the Data License Hypermedia API served over
  HTTP at api.bloomberg.com/eap. The surface delivers real-time and historical pricing, reference data, intraday bars and
  ticks, and streaming market data subscriptions. BLPAPI is an asynchronous binary event protocol rather than a REST API,
  so it carries no HTTP status codes, rate-limit headers or idempotency keys; errors and quota exhaustion arrive as typed
  messages on the event queue. Bloomberg publishes no OpenAPI description, no public pricing and no self-service signup —
  data access is entitlement-gated and provisioned under contract — but the SDKs, their full version archive and the BLPAPI
  developer guides are downloadable without an account.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg-applications.png
tags:
- Enterprise API
- Financial Analytics
- Financial-Services
- Market Data
- Real-Time Data
tags_raw:
- Enterprise API
- Financial Analytics
- Financial Services
- Market Data
- Real-Time Data
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-applications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-08-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: bloomberg-applications:bloomberg-data-api
  name: Bloomberg Data API
  description: Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg's financial market data including real-time and historical pricing,
    reference data, and analytics.
  humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-management/data-license/
  baseURL: https://api.bloomberg.com/eap/
  tags:
  - Financial Data
  - Historical Data
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-management/data-license/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bloomberg-applications-authentication.yml
- aid: bloomberg-applications:bloomberg-terminal-connect-api
  name: Bloomberg Terminal Connect API
  description: 'Desktop API for accessing Bloomberg Terminal functionality programmatically through Excel, custom applications,
    and third-party systems. No public baseURL is recorded because none exists: the BLPAPI Desktop API connects to the local
    Bloomberg Communication Server process on the operator''s own machine (127.0.0.1:8194) and inherits authorization from
    the logged-in Terminal session, so the endpoint is the consumer''s workstation rather than a Bloomberg-hosted host.'
  humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
  tags:
  - Desktop API
  - Excel Integration
  - Financial Analytics
  - Terminal
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/bloomberg-applications-packages.yml
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg/
  name: Bloomberg
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: bloomberg-family:2026-08-27
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bloomberg-applications-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/bloomberg-applications-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomberg-applications-domain-security.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/bloomberg-applications-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bloomberg-applications-well-known.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/documentation/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
- type: Support
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bloomberg
- type: SignUp
  url: https://service.blpprofessional.com/portal/product/ureg?referrer=bdev
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/privacy/
- type: Releases
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/all_versions.html
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bloomberg-applications-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bloomberg-applications-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/bloomberg-applications-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bloomberg-applications-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/bloomberg-applications-scopes.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bloomberg-applications-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bloomberg-applications-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bloomberg-applications-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bloomberg-applications-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/bloomberg-applications-changelog.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bloomberg-applications-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bloomberg-applications-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bloomberg-applications-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1
x-parent: bloomberg
x-relationship: product