Third Party Developer Blog

Greetings developers. As you all know, the ESI API is a shared resource among all of New Eden's citizens, and we work closely with developers to foster good practices and ensure everyone has equal access to it. Team Tech Co has for some time now been monitoring the usage of the /search/ routes, and we are sad to report that several developers are placing disproportionate load on the search service in order to achieve goals that it was never intended to serve. The goal of the search endpoint is to allow developers to upstream the searching for and autocompletion of the names of various types of entities in the eve universe. This saves third party developers the trouble of implementing their own search whilst also providing a more comprehensive search experience, and makes life better for everyone. Unfortunately, some developers have for some time ... read more

ESI Quick Reference For New Developers This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018. With the recent announcement that ESI has now reached parity with XML API and CREST there will undoubtedly be newcomers to ESI (welcome!). A lot of important information about ESI is strewn about in various blogs and may be overwhelming to newcomers. This blog will act as a quick reference for the most important things every new ESI developer should know listed all in one document. What is ESI? A RESTful API for EVE built using the OpenAPI 2.0 specification. ... read more

Breaking Changes to /characters/names and /corporations/names Over the past day it has come to Team Tech Co's attention that a few ESI routes are backed by poorly optimized software patterns. Some of these routes can and will be fixed with no disruption, but not all of them. Now that Team Tech Co. is aware of the problem we want to rectify it swiftly. On Monday, June 18th 2018, we will be removing four routes. Two of these follow our standard promotion mechanism, whereby their legacy versions will be removed and their latest versions will be served on both latest and legacy. However, it will be necessary to remove two routes that, up until now, have been considered fully functional (albeit with their functionality fully replaced by a different route). Of the routes you need to know about, they are: ... read more