Bloomberg Applications

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.

Bloomberg Applications is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Enterprise API, Financial Analytics, Financial Services, Market Data, and Real-Time Data.

The Bloomberg Applications catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Bloomberg Applications’ developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, CLI, and 24 more developer resources.

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49.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 APIs

Enterprise API Financial Analytics Financial Services Market Data Real-Time Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 49.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bloomberg Data API

Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg's financial market data including real-time and historical pricing, reference data, and analytics.

Bloomberg Terminal Connect API

Desktop API for accessing Bloomberg Terminal functionality programmatically through Excel, custom applications, and third-party systems. No public baseURL is recorded because no...

Bloomberg Applications API pricing

Rate limits

Reference data request field cap: 400 fields
Historical data request field cap: 25 fields
Pending request ceiling: 1024 pending requests

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bloomberg Applications Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bloomberg Applications Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bloomberg Applications Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Bloomberg Applications Blpapi Events

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bloomberg Applications Authentication

4 schemes

SECURITY

Bloomberg Applications Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Bloomberg Applications Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Bloomberg Applications Scopes

3 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Releases

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg-applications.png
x-docs-platform: redoc
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
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
- Financial-Services
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-applications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-16'
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: FinOps
  url: finops/bloomberg-applications-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bloomberg.com
- 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

Bloomberg Applications API — frequently asked questions

Does Bloomberg Applications have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Bloomberg Applications, including Bloomberg Data API and Bloomberg Terminal Connect API.

How do I authenticate with the Bloomberg Applications API?

Bloomberg Applications documents its authentication (4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Bloomberg Applications Authentication.

Is the Bloomberg Applications API ready for AI agents?

Bloomberg Applications has a Kin Score of 49.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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