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
- Explicit separation of session management, event parsing and event aggregation
- 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.
