Bloomberg

aid: bloomberg
name: Bloomberg
description: 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.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg.png
tags:
- Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Data License
- Enterprise
- Execution Management
- Financial Services
- Market Data
- News
- Quantitative Analysis
- Trading
- Transaction Cost Analysis
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-market-data-api
  name: Bloomberg Market Data API
  description: Provides real-time and historical market data, including stock prices, indices, commodities, and currencies.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  tags:
  - Financial Data
  - Indices
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time
  - Stocks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-server-api
  name: Bloomberg Server API (SAPI)
  description: Delivers real-time market data, historical data, reference data, and calculation engine capabilities from the
    Bloomberg Terminal for server applications.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-connectivity/server-api/
  tags:
  - Enterprise
  - Historical Data
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time
  - Reference Data
  - Server API
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-data-license-api
  name: Bloomberg Data License API
  description: Provides programmatic access to Bloomberg Data License content including reference, pricing, regulatory, ESG,
    corporate actions, fundamentals, and alternative data.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/
  tags:
  - Data License
  - Enterprise
  - ESG
  - Pricing Data
  - Reference Data
  - Regulatory Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/
  baseURL: https://api.bloomberg.com
- aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-emsx-api
  name: Bloomberg EMSX API
  description: Enables programmatic management and automation of equities, futures, and options trading through the Bloomberg
    Execution Management System.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/trading/execution-management-system/
  tags:
  - Equities
  - Execution Management
  - Futures
  - Options
  - Orders
  - Trading
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://emsx-api-doc.readthedocs.io/
- aid: bloomberg:bloomberg-blpapi-core
  name: Bloomberg BLPAPI Core
  description: 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. Provides Request/Response, Subscription, and Publishing
    paradigms across services including //blp/refdata, //blp/mktdata, //blp/mktbar, //blp/mktvwap, //blp/mktdepthdata, //blp/apiflds,
    //blp/instruments, //blp/pagedata, and //blp/tasvc.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  tags:
  - B-PIPE
  - BLPAPI
  - Desktop API
  - Historical Data
  - Intraday Bars
  - Intraday Ticks
  - Market Data
  - Open API
  - Reference Data
  - Request Response
  - Server API
  - Subscription
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-reference-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-historical-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-intraday-bars-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-intraday-ticks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-field-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-real-time-bars-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-real-time-market-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-request-response-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bloomberg-vwap-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blpapi-core-messages-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blpapi-core-error-message-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blpapi-core-market-data-event-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blpapi-core-subscription-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/blpapi-core-subscription-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/bloomberg-market-data-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/bloomberg-security-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/bloomberg-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/blpapi-core-context.jsonld
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-reference-data-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-historical-data-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-intraday-bars-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-intraday-ticks-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-field-discovery-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-subscriptions-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-real-time-bars-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-real-time-market-data-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-request-response-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bloomberg-vwap-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/bloomberg-market-data-asyncapi.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/bloomberg/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bloomberg-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bloomberg-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomberg-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomberg
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
- type: SDKs
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bloomberg
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solutions/asset-management/developer/
- type: Login
  url: https://console.bloomberg.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/bloomberg-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/bloomberg-vocabulary.yaml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/
- type: Security
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/responsible-disclosure
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bloomberg-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bloomberg-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/bloomberg-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/bloomberg-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bloomberg-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bloomberg-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bloomberg-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bloomberg-lifecycle.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/bloomberg-scopes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bloomberg-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bloomberg-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/bloomberg-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/bloomberg-data-model.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/bloomberg-market-data-asyncapi.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Real-Time Market Data
    description: Stream live market data for equities, fixed income, commodities, and currencies via subscription.
  - name: Historical Data
    description: Access end-of-day historical time series with periodicity, currency, and corporate-action adjustments.
  - name: Intraday Tick Data
    description: Retrieve raw tick-by-tick trade and quote data for granular intraday analysis.
  - name: Reference Data
    description: Query current reference, descriptive, fundamental, and pricing field values for securities.
  - name: Field Discovery
    description: Search and discover Bloomberg field mnemonics and metadata via the API Data Dictionary.
  - name: Multi-Language SDK
    description: Access BLPAPI through C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, and COM Excel SDKs.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Quantitative Research
    description: Build quantitative models using historical and real-time market data for alpha generation.
  - name: Risk Management
    description: Monitor portfolio risk exposure using real-time pricing and reference data feeds.
  - name: Algorithmic Trading
    description: Feed market data into trading algorithms via EMSX for automated order execution.
  - name: Regulatory Reporting
    description: Access regulatory and compliance data through Data License for reporting requirements.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Bloomberg Terminal
    description: Extend Bloomberg Terminal capabilities through the Desktop API integration.
  - name: Excel
    description: Access BLPAPI data directly from Excel spreadsheets using the COM Excel SDK.
  - name: Python
    description: Build data analytics and machine learning pipelines with the Python BLPAPI SDK.
  - name: B-PIPE
    description: Distribute Bloomberg data across enterprise infrastructure using the B-PIPE product.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com