topic Bloomberg API and Databricks in Data Engineering

Bloomberg API and Databricks

kfloresip — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:08:11 GMT

Dear Databricks Community,
Do you have any experience connecting Databricks (Python) to the Bloomberg Terminal to retrieve data in an automated way? I tried running the following code without success:
%python
%pip install blpapi
Thanks for your help,
Kevin Flores

Re: Bloomberg API and Databricks

filipniziol — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:50:31 GMT

Hi @kfloresip ,

As per documentation you need to run:

%pip install --index-url=https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/repository/releases/python/simple/ blpapi

It means that the package is not available on the standard Python Package Index (PyPI) and Bloomberg hosts it on their own package repository rather than on PyPI