Bloomber API for python tutorial

Question

Does anyone know any good resources/ tutorials/ books to get started with Bloomberg's API blpapi in python?

I have searched everywhere and I haven't found anything at all..

Solution 1

If you download the API from the official website and you the zip file, you will find an "examples" folder which has plenty of examples.

Then there's the core developer guide if you need help on the schemas.

Solution 2

xbbg is a library with minimum setup and some relatively powerful functionalities:

https://xbbg.readthedocs.io/

For example this is how to download historical intraday data:

from xbbg import blp

blp.bdib('AAPL US Equity', '2018-11-21')