pjbruno327 / blp

Pythonic interface for Bloomberg Open API

About

blp provides a simple pythonic interface to the blpapi package. blp is the next iteration of the pdblp package. blp was designed with the following in mind

1. Explicit separation of session management, event parsing and event aggregation
2. Extensibility

Installation

You can install from PyPI using

pip install blp

or from conda-forge using

conda install -c conda-forge blp

Getting Started

Reading the docs is the best way to get started, take a look at Quickstart or if you are having issues Troubleshooting

Contributing

Please refer to Contributing for guidelines on contributing.

Bloomberg Documentation

For documentation on the Bloomberg API check out the Developer's Guide. For documentation on relevant Bloomberg fields for accessing data, check out the Reference Guide: Services and Schemas. To access these, from a Bloomberg Terminal go WAPI <GO> -> API Developer's Guide.