Bloomberg Data Sets

aid: bloomberg-data-sets
name: Bloomberg Data Sets
description: Bloomberg L.P. delivers financial market data, reference data, pricing, regulatory and alternative data to financial
  professionals through two machine-facing surfaces. The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) is a native session protocol with first-party
  SDKs in C++, Java, C# (.NET) and Python, covering real-time market data, reference data, historical data and intraday tick
  data across the Desktop API, Server API and B-PIPE products. Bloomberg Data License adds bulk and per-security delivery
  of the same content catalogue over a JWT-authenticated hypermedia REST API at api.bloomberg.com/eap, over SFTP, and natively
  in the major cloud providers. Bloomberg publishes no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL schema or MCP server; its API reference
  for the REST surface sits behind the Bloomberg Enterprise Console, while the BLPAPI SDK reference, downloads and version
  archive are fully public.
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: contract
  onboarding: sales-led
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Contract
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-management/data-license
  generated: '2026-08-27'
  method: searched
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg-data-sets.png
tags:
- Analytics
- Datasets
- Financial-Services
- Market Data
- Reference Data
- Historical Data
- Financial Data
- Data Licensing
tags_raw:
- Analytics
- Data Sets
- Financial Services
- Market Data
- Reference Data
- Historical Data
- Financial Data
- Data Licensing
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-data-sets/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-08-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: bloomberg-data-sets:bloomberg-data-api
  name: Bloomberg Data API
  description: 'The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) provides programmatic access to Bloomberg''s market data, reference data,
    historical data and intraday tick data. It is an event-driven session protocol rather than an HTTP API: clients open a
    session, request a service such as //blp/refdata or //blp/mktdata, and consume events and messages. First-party SDKs are
    published for C++, Java, C# (.NET) and Python and cover the Desktop API, Server API and B-PIPE products.'
  humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
  tags:
  - Financial Data
  - Historical Data
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time
  - Reference Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- aid: bloomberg-data-sets:bloomberg-data-license
  name: Bloomberg Data License
  description: Bloomberg Data License provides bulk and per-security delivery of Bloomberg's reference, pricing, regulatory
    and alternative data for quantitative analysis, research and enterprise data management. Delivery is available over a
    hypermedia-driven REST API (the Hypermedia API, HAPI) at api.bloomberg.com/eap, over SFTP, and natively in the major cloud
    providers. The REST surface requires a JWT; an unauthenticated request returns HTTP 401 unauthorized_client.
  humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-management/data-license
  baseURL: https://api.bloomberg.com/eap
  tags:
  - Bulk Data
  - Data Feeds
  - Historical Data
  - Quantitative Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-management/data-license
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg/
  name: Bloomberg
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: bloomberg-family:2026-08-27
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
- 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: Blog
  url: https://www.techatbloomberg.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/privacy/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-sets-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-sets-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/bloomberg-data-sets-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bloomberg-data-sets-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/bloomberg-data-sets-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bloomberg-data-sets-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bloomberg-data-sets-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bloomberg-data-sets-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bloomberg-data-sets-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/27/Software-Update-and-Expiration-21en.pdf
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/bloomberg-data-sets-changelog.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bloomberg-data-sets-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/bloomberg-data-sets-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bloomberg-data-sets-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomberg-data-sets-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bloomberg-data-sets-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bloomberg-data-sets-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bloomberg-data-sets-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bloomberg-data-sets-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1
x-parent: bloomberg
x-relationship: product