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user852974
user852974

Reputation: 2282

How do I use the bloomberg API to get FX data in a html site?

I am new to the bloomberg API so forgive me if this is silly but I am creating a html website on a mac and I want to simply fill a div with some data from bloomberg e.g. the current value of the EURUSD.

How can this be done? Is this what the bloomberg API is for?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13288

Answers (4)

user2023861
user2023861

Reputation: 8208

If you don't have a Bloomberg account, you can get an idea of how this is done using the Bloomberg API Emulator. It works and looks just like the Bloomberg API, but it doesn't require an account to use. It doesn't return real data, but you can use it to learn how to request data from the Bloomberg API.

Upvotes: 1

assylias
assylias

Reputation: 328737

This is something that would typically be forbidden by the license - data obtained from the Bloomberg API can generally not be redistributed.

Plus (you might know that) the Bloomberg API is publicly available but to be able to receive actual data through the API, you need to subscribe to Bloomberg, which is a payable service.

There are probably better (and less expensive) ways to get EUR.USD rates.

Upvotes: 3

Sentinel
Sentinel

Reputation: 3697

The API is for this, but the licensing is typically not. You can use the server mode and try to communicate with a Bloomber Server (paid component) and ask for licensing to redist the data. Your problem here is not technical but legal

Upvotes: 1

David Gorsline
David Gorsline

Reputation: 5018

From a 10-minute read of the Developer's Guide at http://www.openbloomberg.com/, it looks like you might be able to use it to get current foreign exchange rates. The Developer's Guide gives coding examples in Java, .NET, C++, and C.

Upvotes: 0

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