Bloomberg Open API

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Bloomberg Open API announced recently - is it just the Bloomberg SDK which had been  limitedly  exposed to public for quite a while   My understanding is that Bloomberg SDK is possible to use only on the machine with a Bloomberg Terminal installed  but the recently announced Open API  which is syntactically the same  will be possible to use from any machine   Is that correct  Are there any restrictions on the new API  say  delayed responses etc   Just cannot believe they re giving away for free something that costed money - any clarifications are welcome     EDIT  The above was probably not clear  so to rephrase     I wonder if the newly announced Open API is syntactically the Bloomberg SDK API  or how they call it   which has been available for years already assuming there are restrictions on using Open API on any machine  comparing to using SDK from a machine with Bloomberg Terminal installed  - I wonder if those restrictions are specified in detail in some official Bloomberg doc     I can myself guess on both questions  but I thought I d rather ask

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This API has been available for a long time and enables to get access to market data (including live) if you are running a Bloomberg Terminal or have access to a Bloomberg Server, which is chargeable.

The only difference is that the API (not its code) has been open sourced, so it can now be used as a dependency in an open source project for example, without any copyrights issues, which was not the case before.

User · Answer

I don t think so  The API s will provide access to delayed quotes  there is no way that real time data or tick data  will be provided for free

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The API s will provide full access to LIVE data  and developers can thus provide applications and develop against the API without paying licencing fees  Consumers will pay for any data received from the apps provided by third party developers  and so BB will grow their audience and revenue in that way      NOTE  Bloomberg is offering this programming interface  BLPAPI  under a free-use license  This license does not include nor provide access to any Bloomberg data or content      Source  http   www openbloomberg com open-api

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Since the data is not free  you can use this Bloomberg API Emulator  disclaimer  it s my project  to learn how to send requests and make subscriptions   This emulator looks and acts just like the real Bloomberg API  although it doesn t return real data   In my time developing applications that use the Bloomberg API  I rarely care about the actual data that I m handling  I care about how to retrieve data  If you want to learn how to use the Bloomberg API give it a try   If you want to test out your code without an account  use this   A Bloomberg account costs about  2 000 a month  so you can save a lot with this project  The emulator now supports Java and C   in addition to C   C   C    and Java   Intraday Tick Requests Intraday Bar Requests Reference Data Requests Historical Data Requests Market Data Subscriptions  Edit  Updated Project link  moved to github

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