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For programming questions related to the Bloomberg API, which provides financial news and data services.

Bloomberg L.P. is a financial news and data service that provides an API for real time access to financial information.

Bloomberg also provides a computer system that enables financial professionals to access the Bloomberg Professional service, known as Bloomberg Terminal.

Note: Bloomberg provides extensive customer support for their products. They can field any question about their service. Non-programming questions should always be directed to them, and even some programming questions are better asked of a product's support team.

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Bloomberg API for python tutorial

Does anyone know any good resources/ tutorials/ books to get started with Bloomberg's API blpapi in python? I have searched everywhere and I haven't found anything at all.
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In Bloomberg API how do you specify to get FX forwards as a spread rather than absolute values?

How do you explicitly request fx forwards as outrights using the bloomberg API? In the Bloomberg terminal you can choose whether to get FX Forwards as absolute rates (outrights) or as offsets from Spots (Points) by doing XDF, hitting 7, then the…
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Bloomberg Equity Option Chain through API

I am currently working on a project that should help me create an implied volatility surface for a given stock. For this purpose, I am writing a script that will download all the available options for this specific stock - from what I've gathered,…
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Python 2.7 with Bloomberg API import blpapi failure

This is my development environment: Windows 7 on a 64-bit HP Pavilion laptop Python 2.7, 32-bit in folder C:\python27 Development environment is Eclipse with PyDev, but this doesn't seem to matter, because I get the same kind of failure whether I…
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What language is used to develop a Bloomberg App Portal application

What language would a developer use to develop an application for the Bloomberg App Portal as described here: Bloomberg press room To be specific, I'm not asking on how to integrate with BBG on the desktop via the Anywhere APIs. This is a question…
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How do I get trading holidays from the Bloomberg API

I'm using Bloomberg Java api to download trading data. I need somebody to tell me if there exists a function which can return a list of trading holidays. I looked through the manual but couldn't find one. If there's no such a thing, is there a good…
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How to get a live price snapshot in bloomberg?

I am looking to get a live price snapshot from Bloomberg .Net API 3 with C#. I can see from the samples how to get historical prices or subscribe to data, but I cannot find the correct request to get an order book snapshot, ie Bid/Ask/Last trade…
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get data from bloomberg api with python via excel

I've written some code which successfully pulls data from the bloomberg api by using python to write a query in excel, it then launches excel gets the data via the bloomberg plugin, transfers the data into a csv (for easier use in python and other…
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Python Bloomberg API pdblp intraday request

pdblp allows daily historical Bloomberg requests via: con = pdblp.BCon(debug=False) con = start() df = con.bdh(['SPY Equity'], 'PX_LAST', '20150103', '20150619') How can intraday price/volume/open interest etc requests be made? Desired behavior…
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Starting bbcomm in Java v3 Bloomberg API

When I use the Java Bloomber V3 API it usually works. However, sometimes, especially after a reboot, bbcomm.exe is not running in the background. I can start it manually by running blp.exe, but I wondered if there was a way of doing this via the…
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Possible to get Bloomberg API into Python 3?

Is there a version of blpapi for python 3? If not, has anyone successfully modified the existing SDK to make it work (or do you just start from scratch and write an interface to the C++ version?). Some background: The existing Bloomberg API (free…
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Python-Bloomberg Open API: Are there any examples?

I searched everywhere, including here, for an answer regarding the bloomberg open API for Python. I have two questions regarding this: 1. Is the historical data, such as historical prices, given for free? 2. If So, where can I find examples…
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Bloomberg API request timing out

Having set up a ReferenceDataRequest I send it along to an EventQueue Service refdata = _session.GetService("//blp/refdata"); Request request = refdata.CreateRequest("ReferenceDataRequest"); // append the appropriate symbol and field data to the…
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package 'Rbbg' is not available (for R version 2.15.2)

How do I find out for which versions of R this package is available? > install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org") Warning: unable to access index for repository http://r.findata.org/src/contrib Warning message: package 'Rbbg' is not…
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How do I use the bloomberg API to get FX data in a html site?

I am new to the bloomberg API so forgive me if this is silly but I am creating a html website on a mac and I want to simply fill a div with some data from bloomberg e.g. the current value of the EURUSD. How can this be done? Is this what the…
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