Communicate with Data Servers :: Communicate with Financial Data Servers (Datafeed Toolbox™)

Communicate with Data Servers

This section uses the Bloomberg financial data server as an example of how to retrieve data with the Datafeed Toolbox software. To establish a connection to the Bloomberg data server, use blp. To retrieve connection properties, use blp.get. To terminate a connection, use blp.close.

You can communicate with other supported data servers using a similar set of toolbox functions. The table below lists functions used to connect to different data servers.

Data Server	Toolbox Function
Bloomberg	`blp`
eSignal	`esig`
FactSet	`factset`
FRED	`fred`
Haver Analytics	`haver`
Interactive Data	`idc`
Kx Systems, Inc.	`kx`
SIX Telekurs	`tlkrs`
Thomson Reuters	`datastream` or `reuters`
Trading Technologies X_TRADER	`xtrdr`
Yahoo!	`yahoo`

To retrieve connection properties, use get. To terminate a connection, use close.

Communicate with Financial Data Servers

Connect to the Bloomberg Data Server

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