How to implement excel BDP() function with Bloomberg API? - python

I'm not familiar with either BDP() or api. I'm just wondering if there is any easy and elegant way to implement this excel function with Bloomberg API? Thanks! (any language is fine although python is preferred)

What function? BDP is the api they provide to access data. I think the easiest solution for you to is to msg the helpdesk(hit the help key twice) and ask them for the api documentation. Its somewhere in bloomberg but I am not at my terminal right now, but the helpdesk not only can give you the documentation they can also show you code samples. You can also ask to speak to an API specialist, who can help you even more.
Most of the scripts my ex-employers fund were using python, so it def works.

For python, I have started a project to provide access to the bloomberg desktop api. Check it out and help out if you have some code - https://github.com/bpsmith/pybbg.

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Is it possible to automate Bloomberg Terminal's tasks?

I have access to a bloomberg terminal and python on the same computer. I tried to look on internet and on this forum for some useful tips/introduction to automate bloomberg tasks, although I didn't find anything. How can the terminal be automated? Is it possible to do something similar to webscraping with an external application? Or the only way is to use Sendkeys method? (In my case I want to automate ISIN typing, print screen (for which I found a code in this forum using API calls) and data analysis (so scrape the data showed). I'm aware of bloomberg add-in for excel but it's quite limited.
Automating the terminal can be done using the TerminalConnect Api.
It's not possible to 'scrape' data from the terminal, but you can access data using the Desktop Api (DAPI).
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http://www.openbloomberg.com/2012/11/21/open-api-blpapi-v3-5-x-released/
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Your question made me look.
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