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 deliveryModel: model: saas open_source: false commercial: true callable_host: false label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint confidence: medium source: - openapi - pricing generated: '2026-08-28' method: derived 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 x-docs-platform: redoc x-docs-platform-confidence: medium x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20 tags: - Analytics - Business Intelligence - Data License - Enterprise - Execution Management - Financial Services - Market Data - News - Quantitative Analysis - Trading - Transaction Cost Analysis - Financial Data tags_raw: - Analytics - Business Intelligence - Data License - Enterprise - Execution Management - Financial Services - Market Data - News - Quantitative Analysis - Trading - Transaction Cost Analysis - Financial-Services - Financial Data url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2024-01-20' modified: '2026-09-16' specificationVersion: '0.23' 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: - Stocks - Execution Management - Futures - Options - Order - Trading tags_raw: - 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 - OpenAPI - Reference Data - Request Response - Server API - Subscription tags_raw: - 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-real-time-bars-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/bloomberg-real-time-market-data-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 - name: Bloomberg BLPAPI (Desktop API) description: BLPAPI is Bloomberg's core programming interface for the Bloomberg Terminal Desktop API, Server API (SAPI), B-PIPE, and Platform products. It exposes a unified asynchronous session/event/subscription model for requesting reference data, historical data, intraday bars and ticks, market data subscriptions, instrument lookup, and field information via services such as //blp/refdata, //blp/mktdata, //blp/apiflds, and //blp/instruments. SDKs are published in C++, Java, Python, and .NET; the Python SDK alone has 39 releases and ships against version 3.26.4. humanURL: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ tags: - BLPAPI - Desktop API - Reference Data - Historical Data - Market Data - SDK properties: - type: Documentation url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - type: APIReference url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/cpp/3.26/index.html - type: GettingStarted url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - type: DeveloperGuide url: https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/10/2017/03/BLPAPI-Core-Developer-Guide.pdf - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/bloomberg - type: SDKs url: https://github.com/msitt/blpapi-python - type: SDKPython url: https://pypi.org/project/blpapi/ - type: SDKJava url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/java/3.26/index.html - type: SDKDotNet url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/dotnet/3.26/index.html - type: SDKCPP url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/cpp/3.26/index.html - type: Pricing url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/pricing/ - type: License url: https://github.com/msitt/blpapi-python/blob/master/License.txt - name: Bloomberg B-PIPE description: Bloomberg's flagship enterprise market data feed, delivering normalized, consolidated, real-time and reference data across all asset classes with Bloomberg's entitlement and identifier infrastructure. Offered as Bloomberg-hosted B-PIPE and Managed B-PIPE, with access via BLPAPI. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/enterprise-catalog/data-feeds/b-pipe/ tags: - B-PIPE - Market Data Feed - Enterprise - Real-Time Data properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/enterprise-catalog/data-feeds/b-pipe/ - type: APIReference url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/ - type: Pricing url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/pricing/ - name: Bloomberg Data License (DL / BEAP) description: Bulk reference, pricing, regulatory, and alternative-data delivery service covering over 50 million securities and 30,000+ fields. Accessed via REST API (HAPI / Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point), SFTP, or cloud delivery (AWS, Azure, GCP). Suited to back-office, risk, compliance and research use cases that do not require streaming market data. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/ tags: - Data License - Reference Data - Bulk Data - Regulatory Data - Alternative Data properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/data/data-management/data-license/ - type: APIReference url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/ - type: Pricing url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/pricing/ - name: Bloomberg Terminal description: Bloomberg's flagship subscription product — a desktop application delivering real-time market data, news, analytics, trading, messaging, and research to financial professionals globally. The Terminal is also the entitlement host for the Desktop BLPAPI. humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/bloomberg-terminal/ tags: - Terminal - Subscription - Workstation properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/bloomberg-terminal/ - type: Pricing url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/pricing/ - type: Signup url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/request-demo/ common: - type: CapabilityMap url: capabilities/bloomberg-capability-edges.yml name: Bloomberg Business Capability Map - type: Plans url: plans/bloomberg-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/bloomberg-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/bloomberg-finops.yml - type: Website url: https://bloomberg.com - 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: X-MCPServerCandidate url: mcp/bloomberg-mcp.yml note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03: the manifest self-describes as status: candidate -- a tool list we derived from the BLPAPI OpenAPI projections, with its own notes recording that no official Bloomberg-hosted MCP server exists (registry searched, developer.bloomberg.com checked, 2026-06-20). The scorer already read this correctly as mcp_server: false; the MCPServer type was feeding "MCP" into artifact_types and the coverage matrix, crediting a server that does not exist. Reported through report_correction 2026-09-01.' - 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. - 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type: Subsidiary url: https://apis.io/providers/second-measure/ name: Second Measure x-relationship: acquisition x-generated-by: bloomberg-family:2026-08-27 x-acquired: 2020 maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com x-aliases: - Bloomberg L.P.