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Changes Coming To The EVE Online ImageSet
For every new EVE Online release, the Audio and Graphics Group delivers the ImageSet: a collection of graphic files available for use by the community. The ImageSet changes as assets, icons, and brackets are modified, as well as when the tools we use to create those images improve. Through the August release, incorporating those improvements has...
The ESI API is a shared resource, do not abuse it
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...
Updated ESI Quick Reference For New Developers
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...
Breaking Changes to /characters/names and /corporation/names
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...
A Eulogy for XML & CREST
18 months ago we announced both ESI and our intention to retire the XML API and CREST by May 8th, 2018. This is a reminder that this retirement date is finally upon us! Tomorrow after downtime both CREST and XML API will not be usable anymore. This means any software you are using that has not moved to ESI will stop working. If you need to find an...
ESI ETag Best Practices
o7 Space Friends, CCP SnowedIn coming at ya with a blog detailing a recent change to ESI response headers. As some of you have already noticed (especially if you follow me on twitter, which you should), ESI now returns an ETag header in every response. This blog is to detail exactly what this means, and how you can use this in your applications to...
ESI Chat Channel Deprecation
ESI Chat Channel Deprecation Ever since EVE's new chat backend was released on March 20th the ESI route /v1/characters/{character_id}/chat_channels/ has been returning stale data. It has been decided to officially deprecate this route, meaning that it will be labelled as "legacy" and start returning deprecation headers. This endpoint will then be...
ESI March News
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. March has been a busy month for ESI so this blog will cover all the ESI news relevant to...
Upwell 2.0 ESI Structure Changes
Upwell 2.0 ESI Structure Changes Greetings developers! If you've been watching our dev blogs you'll know that there are some upcoming changes to structures coming on February 13th. This blog will serve as a short summary of the changes that affect ESI and how ESI is going to accommodate those changes. These structure changes will also be the...
Explore EVE's Data Using the ESI UI
Explore EVE's Data Using the ESI UI 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. Quick update on ESI Before jumping into the meat of...
ESI Quick Reference For New Developers
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...
Important Information on the Future of the EVE API
Greetings capsuleers, It’s been 14 months since we first told you about the new ESI API, and today we’d like to share a little more information with you. The ESI API is the latest result of CCP’s ongoing mission to bring you the most comprehensive API access in all of gaming. It is an API that covers all the responsibilities of both CREST and the...