How to download BLPAPI using pip install

Question

I am a new Bloomberg Terminal user and I have tried following the instructions here to download the Bloomberg API using python. However, when I run the following in the command prompt

python -m pip install --index-url=https://bloomberg.bintray.com/pip/simple blpapi

I get the following error...

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement blpapi (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for blpapi
Could not fetch URL https://bloomberg.bintray.com/pip/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='bloomberg.bintray.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pip/simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate (_ssl.c:1056)'))) - skipping

Could someone please help me download this package to allow me to download data from the Bloomberg API?

Answer 1

From Bloomberg site, use:

pip install --index-url=https://blpapi.bloomberg.com/repository/releases/python/simple blpapi