How to use bloomberg API to get FX data on html site?

Question

I am new to the bloomberg API, so forgive me if this is stupid, but I am creating a html site on Mac and I want to just populate the div with some data from bloomberg, for example. current value of EURUSD.

How can I do that? Is that what for the Bloomberg API?

Answer 1

This is something that will usually be prohibited by the license - data obtained from the Bloomberg APIs usually cannot be redistributed.

Plus (you may know this) that the Bloomberg API is publicly available, but in order to receive actual data through the API, you need to subscribe to Bloomberg, which is a paid service.

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

Answer 2

An API for this, but licensing is usually missing. You can use server mode and try to contact the Bloomber server (paid component) and ask licensing to reinstall the data. Your problem here is not technical, but legal

Answer 3

With a 10-minute reading of the Developer's Guide at http://www.openbloomberg.com/ , it looks like you can use it to get current exchange rates. The developer guide provides coding examples in Java, .NET, C ++ and C.

Answer 4

If you do not have a Bloomberg account, you can understand how this is done using the Bloomberg API Emulator . It works and looks just like the Bloomberg API, but it does not require the use of an account. It does not return real data, but you can use it to learn how to request data from the Bloomberg API.