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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...
ESI Endpoint Versioning: Important Info and Best Practices
ESI Endpoint Versioning: Important Info and Best Practices 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, or earlier if metrics signal a...
Simplify ESI Queries By Using /search/
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, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. How would you find the type ID of...
Updates to the Developer License Agreement - 2017-10
Hello developers CCP is making a number of changes to the developer agreement. The primary purpose of these changes is to allow for persons other than the original developer to enter into the agreement and get access to the resources for EVE Online made available by CCP. An example of such a user might be someone that has downloaded an application...
Mining Ledgers in ESI
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, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. Moon mining is coming to EVE...
ESI Error Rate Limiting Goes Live On Monday
Hello space developers, As stated previously, error limiting in ESI has been imminent since August 29th. Starting after downtime on Monday, October 2nd, Team Tech Co. will officially turn on the ESI error limit functionality. If you're worried about invoking the wrath of the error limiter, you still have the weekend to check your application and...
ESI, Concurrent Programming, and Pagination
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, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. This blog will cover the concept...