Data / Data Connectivity

Server API (SAPI)

Feed client server applications with consistent data

Financial professionals rely on the Bloomberg Terminal® for real-time data, news and analytics to make smarter decisions faster. Bloomberg Server API (SAPI) delivers a powerful complement to the Bloomberg Terminal. SAPI allows you to consume Bloomberg’s unique real-time market, historical, and key reference data, as well as calculation engine capabilities when using proprietary and third-party applications.

With SAPI, the same real-time market data, historical data, premium reference data and calculation tools available with the Bloomberg Professional service are at your firm’s fingertips for seamless use in proprietary and Bloomberg-approved client server applications.

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Features

Extensive cross-asset coverage

Access to a wide range of real-time exchange and OTC market data
Access to unique Bloomberg datasets such as Bloomberg Indices, BVAL Pricing, and ESG
Access to a wide range of Bloomberg data, calculations, and third-party data

Accessibility

24 x 7 access to data and programmatic access
Easy connectivity through the existing client network
Excellent customer support
Flexibility that allows for various application types and workflows
Ease of integration with 3rd party vendor applications

Secure, reliable technology

Built-in, robust entitlements control
Data usage monitoring and management
Encrypted connection with mutually authenticated SSL sessions
Available deployment over the internet
Provides fail over, load balancing and scalability

Access to data is protected using Bloomberg’s trusted biometric login, ensuring that SAPI data is only delivered to Bloomberg users with an active Bloomberg Professional service session.

SAPI for developers

To work efficiently in today’s technology-driven financial institutions, development teams need flexible access to good documentation and high-quality support. The Bloomberg Server API (SAPI) was designed with developers in mind. The Software Development Kit for SAPI gives developers access to data interfaces in multiple programming languages (C++, .NET Framework, VBA via COM Data Control, Java, Python), making it easy to integrate with downstream server applications.

Server API (SAPI) for Developers Fact Sheet