Hi everyone, Happy New Year! Could you please clarify whether the Rblpapi library supports the use of Bloomberg Query Language (BQL)? In particular, I would like to understand whether BQL queries can be executed via Rblpapi, or if the functionality is limited to standard Bloomberg API requests. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards, Oleg
Rblpapi and Bloomberg Query Language support
3 messages · Oleg Mubarakshin, Dirk Eddelbuettel, David-Michael Lincke
On 5 January 2026 at 10:14, Oleg Mubarakshin wrote:
| Happy New Year! Thanks, same to you! | Could you please clarify whether the Rblpapi library supports the use of | Bloomberg Query Language (BQL)? | | In particular, I would like to understand whether BQL queries can be | executed via Rblpapi, or if the functionality is limited to standard | Bloomberg API requests. Questions for a particular package are frequently handled directly at the package repository. For Rblpapi wwe can search GitHub Issues where, when searching for the unique-enough string 'BQL' one finds one issue raised under open queries: https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20bql and three more (one clearly pertinent) under closed issues: https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20bql In short, and now speaking for the package: No, someone would have to write BQL support into the package first. I have not looked at the API for it. Hope this helps, regards, Dirk | Many thanks in advance. | | Kind regards, | Oleg
dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
The Bloomberg API does not expose access to BQL. So there is no way to add it, and beyond the Excel interface the only other officially supported programmatic access is via Bloomberg's proprietary BQuant python solution. Regards, David
On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 at 14:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 5 January 2026 at 10:14, Oleg Mubarakshin wrote: | Happy New Year! Thanks, same to you! | Could you please clarify whether the Rblpapi library supports the use of | Bloomberg Query Language (BQL)? | | In particular, I would like to understand whether BQL queries can be | executed via Rblpapi, or if the functionality is limited to standard | Bloomberg API requests. Questions for a particular package are frequently handled directly at the package repository. For Rblpapi wwe can search GitHub Issues where, when searching for the unique-enough string 'BQL' one finds one issue raised under open queries: https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20bql and three more (one clearly pertinent) under closed issues: https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20bql In short, and now speaking for the package: No, someone would have to write BQL support into the package first. I have not looked at the API for it. Hope this helps, regards, Dirk | Many thanks in advance. | | Kind regards, | Oleg -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
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