Bloomberg
Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Bloomberg provides a suite of developer APIs including BLPAPI, Server API, and the Hypermedia API for programmatic access to market data, analytics, and enterprise services.
APIs
Bloomberg Market Data API
Provides real-time and historical market data, including stock prices, indices, commodities, and currencies.
Bloomberg Server API (SAPI)
Delivers real-time market data, historical data, reference data, and calculation engine capabilities from the Bloomberg Terminal for server applications.
Bloomberg Data License API
Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg Data License content including reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG, corporate actions, fundamentals, and alternative data.
Bloomberg EMSX API
Enables programmatic management and automation of equities, futures, and options trading through the Bloomberg Execution Management System.
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. P...
Capabilities
Bloomberg Market Data
Unified workflow for accessing Bloomberg reference data, historical data, intraday analytics, and field discovery. Used by quantitative analysts and portfolio managers.
Run with NaftikoFeatures
Stream live market data for equities, fixed income, commodities, and currencies via subscription.
Access end-of-day historical time series with periodicity, currency, and corporate-action adjustments.
Retrieve raw tick-by-tick trade and quote data for granular intraday analysis.
Query current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for securities.
Search and discover Bloomberg field mnemonics and metadata via the API Data Dictionary.
Access BLPAPI through C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, and COM Excel SDKs.
Use Cases
Build quantitative models using historical and real-time market data for alpha generation.
Monitor portfolio risk exposure using real-time pricing and reference data feeds.
Feed market data into trading algorithms via EMSX for automated order execution.
Access regulatory and compliance data through Data License for reporting requirements.
Integrations
Extend Bloomberg Terminal capabilities through the Desktop API integration.
Access BLPAPI data directly from Excel spreadsheets using the COM Excel SDK.
Build data analytics and machine learning pipelines with the Python BLPAPI SDK.
Distribute Bloomberg data across enterprise infrastructure using the B-PIPE product.