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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
Chat Channel Information Now Available in XML API
A new endpoint to the XML API is deployed on Tranquility. Chat Channels List of player chat channels you have created or are an operator of are exposed through the new endpoint char/ChatChannels.xml.aspx. It includes a list of characters, corporations, and alliances that have been allowed, blocked, muted, or been made an operator of the respective...
Image Server CDN changes
Hey people, Just a quick heads up about a change with the image server. We've previously had a CDN in front of the image server (http://images.cdn1.eveonline.com/), but it never supported HTTPS. Due to this we previously recommended that people use the origin image server (https://image.eveonline.com/) as it supports HTTPS. We are currently in the...
Contact Labels Now Available via API
Along with the Aegis Sovereignty release, the char/ContactList.xml.aspx and corp/ContactList.xml.aspx endpoints on the XML API have been updated to include your contact labels. The rowsets "contactLabels", "corporateContactLabels", and "allianceContactLabels" have been added, each with the columns "labelID" and "name". The column "labelMask" has...
Adding Bookmarks to the API
Dear fans of bookmarks, I bring good tidings. A new endpoint to the XML API is to be deployed with the Aegis Sovereignty release. So without further ado, here are the details. Bookmarks! Your personal and corporation bookmarks are exposed through the new endpoints char/Bookmarks.xml.aspx and corp/Bookmarks.xml.aspx respectively. Information such as...
Alliance Contract Items Fix
Good news everyone! We have deployed to Tranquility a fix for a long-standing bug in the XML API where alliance contracts were showing up in corp/Contracts.xml.aspx, but were not queryable via corp/ContractItems.xml.aspx. With this fix deployed, you will now be able to query alliance contracts via corp/ContractItems.xml.aspx! ~~ CCP Tellus
Coordinates in Outpost List
Hey guys, we've got another spicy little change has been deployed to the XML API on Tranquility. The eve/ConquerableStationList.xml.aspx and corp/OutpostList.xml.aspx endpoints have had three new attributes added to them: x, y, and z. These are the in-space coordinates of the respective stations. Here's an example output from...
Aegis Sovereignty API Changes
With just under a week to go before the new Sovereignty system hits Tranquility it's probably time that we start getting you information on the APIs we will be deploying to support it. So without further rambling, here’s the details. Structures All of the new APIs are in CREST and the first resource to look at is the SovStructures resource. This...
Minor change to Locations.xml.aspx
We have deployed a small change to the Locations.xml.aspx endpoint to Tranquility. It will no longer give a 135 error when some of the itemIDs being queried are invalid or not owned by the keyholder, instead those itemIDs are simply not included in the resulting rowset. This also implies that you may very well get an empty rowset now. This change...