I know your wishes, but i'm happy with getting at least some kind of useable information. The last time CCP was giving out sensitive ingame information (SovereigntyStatus API in 2009-12) they had to remove it after couple of days, because people were abusing it to make their ingame short term decisions on informations that were not able to gather ingame in the same quality.

They want to maintain the fog-of-war.

So please keep that in mind. I'm more happy with an api that is maybe a bit outdated rather then no api information at all.

Hey FoxFour, I was wondering why you include GroupID but not TypeID for eve/OwnerID since any sort of browser bases JavaScript information panel popup requires the TypeID for Character, Corporation, Alliance, or Faction as listed on the official eve wiki. (faction typeID not listed on wiki, but it works anyways). While it's no big deal to convert from GroupID to TypeID, I was first and foremost wondering why there's two identifiers for these entities. If you could include typeID, that would be great. Alternatively, if the IGB group (if there is one) should really consider changing to groupID if this endpoint stays as is.

Some Helpful Type ID Numbers

Alliance
16159
Character
1377 (see note 1)
Corporation
2
Constellation
4
Region
3
Solar System
5
Station
3867 (see note 2)

Note 1: There are actually different type IDs for each character race. However, for the purposes of the showInfo command, you can pass in any character race type ID - we suggest 1377 - and we will automatically detect that you are attempting to show information on a character. We will then fill in the appropriate type ID automatically.

Note 2: There are actually many different type IDs for various types of station. However, for the purposes of the showInfo command, you should pass in type ID 3867, which we will detect and automatically convert to the appropriate type ID for you.

IndustryJobs
Better not touch in there. To much to do.

account/Characters
Added allianceID
Added allianceName
Added factionID
Added factionName

Can this be done to account/APIKeyInfo ?

Also for account/AccountStatus is it possible to list what character is currently logged in ? Using the API its possible to find out if someone is logged it, but not which character.

Also for corp/CorporationSheet can you have the alliance ticker listed, currently I have to pull the Alliance List daily, which is massive, and I think it would be beneficial to get the alliance ticker from a different source. Also on that note, a way to find out the corporations currently in a specific alliance would be great, instead of having to pull the Alliance List.

Can this be done to account/APIKeyInfo ?

Also for account/AccountStatus is it possible to list what character is currently logged in ? Using the API its possible to find out if someone is logged it, but not which character.

Also for corp/CorporationSheet can you have the alliance ticker listed, currently I have to pull the Alliance List daily, which is massive, and I think it would be beneficial to get the alliance ticker from a different source. Also on that note, a way to find out the corporations currently in a specific alliance would be great, instead of having to pull the Alliance List.

psst:
http://public-crest.eveonline.com/alliances/99000136/

I thought crest was still not fully released/supported ?

It's as supported as the main API

corp/CorporationSheet
Added factionName
Added Mercenary Wallet Division account key

corp/walletJournal
Updated to accept the DUST accountKey

corp/walletTransactions
Updated to accept the DUST accountKey

Pretty please, could you add groupID to ContactList ? It would avoid having to do 3 billions requests to separate char/corp/ally in the contacts !

Dear CCP FoxFour,

Considering the effort being put into the APIs, I'd like to make a suggestion before they are final.

Since years, the Market History is missing two key informations that every technical analysis (of any kind) trader - including RL traders - needs to work with the markets history.

They are easy to get as well: every market including EvE's have an Open and Close price for each given day.

The Open is the first price that is formed in the day, the close is the last.

Speaking with market orders in mind, the Open could be in example the min(lowest sell order past down time) or

(min(lowest sell order) + max(highest buy order)) / 2

depending on how you calculate the average, min and max.

The Close is the same thing but taken just before the next downtime.


Price to be imported on financial platforms is usually provided as follows:

Date - Time - Open - High - Low - Close - Volume.

and very very rarely and for selected securities that are NOT commodities:

Date - Time - Average - Min - Max - Volume.

Where Min in RL markets could be approximately mapped to "Low" and Max to "High".


The former is how EvE data should be provided and how an API should make it available.

The latter is (more or less) how it's provided now.

This is how a professional trading platform expects to get a price of in example, Nitrogen Isotopes:

2014-02-20,947.39,967.00,941.05,955.37,75794035


This is a CSV format (easily JSON-able) with everything needed:

YYYY-MM-DD, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume

This is also known as "OHLC" or "OHLCV" format by the initials of Open High Low Close (Volume) and this is the standard, not EvE's format. And by consequence, not EvE's REST format.

Until you won't feed this kind of data, all we can do is to show colorful yet mildly useful charts with very obsolete moving averages.

Considering Dr. Ejyo in Fanfest 2013 had shown proper charts with proper data exactly in the format I have described above, I KNOW it's possible to produce it.

I know you FoxFour are probably not involved with these market technicalities at all and your task is just to represent on REST something that is already there.

So I am asking you, is it possible to contact somebody in CCP who could read and understand my post and the financial concepts behind it and eventually consider having a discussion about it?

It's years and years I am truly working hard to promote EvE markets and make them as real as the real thing, this is the last obstacle before this can become true!

What was just released was basically a first step towards... well we don't know yet but something more hopefully. In order to take just a small step we just exposed what is already available in client via the price history tab on the market. In time we may hopefully see more data at some point in the future.

However while we evaluate the front end and you prepare the back-end, there should be an ongoing development process in the "model" behind the back-end.

I'd just like to chime in and suggest that you vote for Draleth for CSM9. Draleth is BRAVE's lead programmer for our IT team and careful design of the CREST API is an important part of his platform.

Until you won't feed this kind of data, all we can do is to show colorful yet mildly useful charts with very obsolete moving averages.

contactTypeID is already there and should do the same thing, albeit with a little bit longer of an if statement.

Oh, this is not documented in the wiki !
Indeed it should be enough, Thanks.