You may have noticed in the client when viewing a killmail there was a new option called Copy External Kill Link.

First of all:
i've been asking for this since years, for example on fanfest,
so a big and honest:
Thank you CCP FoxFour, for making our (3rdparty) world a bit brighter.




since i believe not everyone will know what you mean by the new option, here a SC that should help people find it: Screenshot

basically its the context menu you can open by clicking at the box to the top left of your killmail.

That's cool. Any chance for multiple select in the kill reports window and a way of copying multiple external URLs at once to the clipboard? Newline separated of course.

FoxFour is definately the best Furry Dev

I... you... just no. No no no. Best dev, great. Furry dev? When have you ever seen me wear anything furry? CCP Nullarbor however... https://twitter.com/CCP_Nullarbor/status/367084848869310464

I noticed the links to solarsystem and corp and alliance objects unfortunately they don't work. Care to comment?

PS. I've had the fortune of attending the pub crawl with tiger suited and somewhat drunk Nullabor and can confirm it was wild.

I am also aware of an issue where some KMs are returning: application/vnd.ccp.eve.UnsupportedMediaTypeError-v1+json

So far I have tracked this to Sleepers, if you are getting this on a killmail without sleepers let me know. :)

I... you... just no. No no no. Best dev, great. Furry dev? When have you ever seen me wear anything furry? CCP Nullarbor however... https://twitter.com/CCP_Nullarbor/status/367084848869310464

Hey guys,

You may have noticed in the client when viewing a killmail there was a new option called Copy External Kill Link. Well as of today that link is now live and good to go: When you click on it you should have something like this copied to your clipboard: http://public-crest.eveonline.com/killmails/30290604/787fb3714062f1700560d4a83ce32c67640b1797/

The idea behind this endpoint is that it takes a killmail ID and a hash of the killmail and if the hash is right for that killmail ID we return a response with the contents of the killmail. Assuming killboards build in support for it this means you can API verify a killmail without having to give out your API details.

If you run into any problems with this endpoint please let me know here.

Enjoy guys! :D

It's rather annoying that the bizarre CCP MIME type means it doesn't open in my browser that has a JSON viewer. Why doesn't it just use application/json like everything else?

Other things:

Why doesn't it send faction = null when someone's not in FW like the regular killmail API does?
Why does it send every number twice, once in int form and once in str form?
Why are corp/alliance icon URLs contained in objects when their only data is the URL?

Please don't tell me this is a hacked-together JSON converter on top of MSSQL XML output.

Some (most) of the numbers blow the 32 bit boundary, putting them in string format makes them extractable by everything, not just those handling uint64 or 64 bit double.

In CREST fields can be optional, when something is null we just don't return it. Those fields are optional.

I cannot remember the exact technical reasons, but there was some reason for sometimes wanting a string representation. Something about JS not liking long numbers. I actually only put it in once, but CREST takes it and sends both the Long and String version.

If you don't return all fields, is there a list of all possible fields it can return? I don't have access to enough killmails on my personal account to possibly find every field.



If the problem is numbers that are too big for 32-bit, why not just send them only as strings instead of an integer format that may break applications when it gets too big and let the application worry about manipulating them?

Killmail:
killID - Long
killTime - String
SolarSystem - Reference
- id - Long
- name - String
moon - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
victim - MediaType
attackerCount - Long
attackers - MediaType

KillmailVictim
character - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
corporation - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
alliance - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
faction - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
damageTaken - Long
shipType - Reference
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
items - MediaType - Optional

KillmailItems
itemType - Reference
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
quantityDropped - Long - Optional
quantityDestroyed - Long - Optional
singleton - Long
flag - Long
items - Array - Optional
- itemType - Reference
-- id - Long
-- name - String
-- icon - External Reference
- quantityDropped - Long - Optional
- quantityDestroyed - Long - Optional
- singleton - Long
- flag - Long

KillmailAttackers
character - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
corporation - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
alliance - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
faction - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
securityStatus - Float
finalBlow - Bool
damageDone - Long
shipType - Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference
weaponType- Reference - Optional
- id - Long
- name - String
- icon - External Reference