Accessing Bloomberg data from API with terminal running on host

[bmpalatiello]

I may be taking a shot in the dark here, but I have a Bloomberg terminal running on the host machine, can I create a Docker container to connect to the session on the host so I can download data with the API, more specifically, using tia from within the container?

[bpsmith]

Have a look at the service.py file in my pybbg project. Basically a cheap way to start a server on the Bloomberg machine and then access remotely. Has been a while but should be able to adjust with minimal modifications.

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[Cherokeeli]

do you open the bloomberg client,when you access data from bloomberg api?

[vikaskumar30]

Hi @bpsmith
How to use your service.py script.
I have script which runs weekly. This requires bloomberg terminal to be logged on at the time of run. This is not the case several times and hence I am looking for a solution where
another user is logged on, during that time at a different machine.

So basically, lets say I have a bloomberg terminal logged on machine B and want to query it for data by running a script on Machine A. Both machines are windows machine.
Is this possible via this script. I am assuming Machine B is the host here.
If yes, how do I find the hostport for Machine B. Could you provide some detailed steps of
how to run that script.

Also is a similar solution feasible for the tia package.

Thanks