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Improvements to CREST endpoint Corporation structures
Hi all, CCP Bartender here! A quick note about some upcoming changes in the corporation structures resource. This resource was my first introduction to creating crest handlers, and as part of a routine review of the crest logs I have found that unfortunately it was not up to scratch. Two key issues have been found: Due to a caching bug, one hour...
CREST Renovations for June 2016
Hello everyone, With DUST officially shut down as of May 30th I took some time to go through CREST and cleanup a bunch of things. The primary objective of this work was to remove everything relating to DUST from CREST, or more specifically everything not used by third-party developers for EVE. However, since I was making a number of changes that...
New CREST Resource for Bulk Market Orders
Hello everyone! I wanted to inform you all about a new market resource in the CREST API. Until now, if you wanted to get all the market orders for Tranquility you had to request every type per region individually. That would generally be 50+ regions multiplied by upwards of 13,000 types. Even if it was just 13,000 types and 50 regions, that is...
Technical note: Integer sizes and the XML API
Hi all, Just dropping a quick note on integer sizes with regard to the XML API access masks. The addition of the clones endpoint and it's associated access mask to the XML API has increased the maximum possible value of the API access mask from 2,147,483,647 to 4,294,967,295. These values are significant. When using a 32 bit integer to store a...
The end of public CREST as we know it
Hello everyone, Really short dev blog to give you all a heads up on a change coming with the Citadel release in how we handle CREST. We have made a fundemental change in CREST and no longer support public CREST. Instead of having public CREST for public resources and authed CREST for authenticated stuff we are now just going to have CREST on the...
Return of the aggregated character stats
Greetings Space Friends, CCP SnowedIn on behalf of Team Tech Co here with good news about the aggregate character stats endpoint that some of you have built some amazing websites with in the past. As you may know when we had initially released it last year (powering fantastic apps such as http://spreadsheetsin.space/ by Bellatroix,...
The EVE Online API Challenge
The EVE Online API Challenge For a long time, EVE Online has offered the ability for third-party developers to pull information from our database servers for use in other applications and websites. Over the years, this ability has spawned the growth of a substantial and active third-party developer community within the greater EVE Online community....
Crest Incursion Update out on Singularity
Oi! Oi! Oi! We‘ve updated the data for CREST Incursions (which is now live on SiSi) to show you all the information you should ever need! The type can now be retrieved through "incursionType", which currently has: "Incursion", which is used for the old school Sansha‘s Incursions and takes over a constellation "Spreading Incursion", which is used...
CREST Updates For January 2016
Hello and welcome to a new year! Hopefully you all had a wonderful holidays and are enjoying the new year. I was fortunate enough that during the last few weeks the office was fairly empty around here and I was able to buckle down and get a large amount of work finished for CREST. Most of the following features were already a work in progress and...
Read/Write of saved fits now on Sisi!
HOLY BATMAN IT'S HAPPENING! I think... assuming this testing goes well it will happen. Right now you can go and create a CREST application for Sisi and request the scopes for fitting (characterFittingRead and characterFittingWrite). Upon requesting those scopes you can begin having people log into your site/application with those scopes at which...
A note on CREST rate limits
Hey people, Just a heads up. The rate limit for public CREST was previously increased, and all the market details are available there. If you are currently scraping market details from authed CREST I would ask that you start doing it from public CREST instead. Public CREST should be faster and fail less often due to how we load balance the...
Cache Timer for SkillTree Endpoint Reduced
The cache timer for the eve/SkillTree.xml.aspx endpoint in the XML API has been reduced to 24 hours from the previous duration of 10 years. That's all. ~~ CCP Tellus