Editing Bloomberg Terminal (section)

=== Application programming interface ===
The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) [[application programming interface]] (API) allows [[Third-party software component|third-party]] applications, such as [[Microsoft Excel]], to access Bloomberg data via the Terminal and Bloomberg's market data products. A user might wish to use Bloomberg data from the Terminal to create their own calculations; by accessing streaming, historical, and reference market data from another program, they can build these formulae. The Bloomberg Terminal installation ships with Excel add-ins which facilitate building spreadsheets which consume market data.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bloomberg Software Support|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/software_support/|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=May 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517004815/http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/software_support/|archive-date=May 17, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, Bloomberg offers free BLPAPI SDKs allowing Bloomberg subscribers to build their own software which accesses market data in [[Wolfram Language]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[.NET Framework|.NET]], [[Perl]], and [[Python (programming language)|Python]], on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]], and [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]].<ref name=open_api>{{cite web |title=Open API |url=http://www.openbloomberg.com/open-api/ |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |access-date=May 20, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512182932/http://www.openbloomberg.com/open-api/ |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>