How do I use the bloomberg API to get FX data in a html site?

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user852974 picture user852974 · Jun 22, 2012 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I am new to the bloomberg API so forgive me if this is silly but I am creating a html website on a mac and I want to simply fill a div with some data from bloomberg e.g. the current value of the EURUSD.

How can this be done? Is this what the bloomberg API is for?

Answer

assylias picture assylias · Jun 23, 2012

This is something that would typically be forbidden by the license - data obtained from the Bloomberg API can generally not be redistributed.

Plus (you might know that) the Bloomberg API is publicly available but to be able to receive actual data through the API, you need to subscribe to Bloomberg, which is a payable service.

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

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