bloomberg api server?

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looking at bloomberg api http://www.openbloomberg.com/ and downloaded example code, looks we need some server to get the data?

private void run(String[] args) throws Exception
{
    String serverHost = "127.0.0.1";
    int serverPort = 8194;
    String serviceName = "//blp/mktdata";

    SessionOptions sessionOptions = new SessionOptions();
    sessionOptions.setServerHost(serverHost);
    sessionOptions.setServerPort(serverPort);

are the servers freely available or we need to buy that?

if not, this means we still do not have a open free data (either live or historical?)

thx.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '12 at 10:31

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127.0.0.1" is your local machine and you need to have a Bloomberg terminal open & logged on (=> you need to be a subscriber, which is chargeable).

The only thing that is "free" is the API, which has been open sourced. But the data remains proprietary, whether it's live or historical.

answered Aug 13 '12 at 10:31

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thx....so this seems not an option for me now, do you have any good suggestion for good source for live data? google has deprecated financial api, now i'm using yahoo.. – hetaoblog Aug 13 '12 at 12:09
@hetaoblog I use Bloomberg so I would not know what other feed to recommend, having not tried them. – assylias Aug 13 '12 at 12:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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There's relevant information in this SO post. Specifically user2023861 offers a project Bloomberg API Emulator which you might find useful. I haven't tried it. Bloomberg, in response to a question sent to open-tech@bloomberg.net, has announced a plan to release their own emulator later this month. The intention to do this is mentioned here in the response to question 7.

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answered Aug 05 '13 at 15:57

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mrbo · Answer 3 · 2013-10-01T08:09:32.203

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You can access some data from the bloomberg website, e.g. historical data on investment funds. It's not an officially released API so my change in the future, but for now it's working. Here you can find a simple example to download yearly time series.

edited Oct 01 '13 at 08:09

answered Sep 09 '13 at 08:26

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