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 <[email protected]> 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 | [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
