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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.19 20:34:00 -
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Originally by: Tonto Auri
Originally by: DevAmarr Null Hello everyone,
I am looking at this API, but didn't see how can one get characterID easily. As till now, you can get it manually checking the links under My Character section, but that's kind of not good. It would be easier if we would have some sort og XML/CSV that would give back all charatersID connected to userID and API key. Or am I just missing that information?
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If You pay a little attention reading patchnotes and this topic, You may see that there's a plan to make easy converter service "Char name" => "Char Id", "Corp Name" => "Corp ID" etc.
I don't think that's what he means at all. The old Character XML contained all characters on the account but it looks as if this new XML is specific to one particular character.
I'm thinking here of something like a /account/Characters.xml.aspx file so we can enumerate through the available characters on an account. If you look at the various character managers available, entering your username and password will allow all characters on that account to be retrieved. We need this same functionality here IMHO.
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.19 21:31:00 -
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I don't think I fully understand your point about security here. How can enumerating through the characters in your account be a security hole? You already have to supply at least one characterID (or name if you want to use the converter) so that's that character disclosed to whatever app/website. OK, I'll admit that if you want to hide your alts then it's a bad idea, but it's no different in that respect than supplying your username and password as you do currently.
If we take your reference to EveMon as an example: currently, users can enter their account username and password and get all characters on their account. Under the new system, why not just enter the userID and APIkey and get the same characters? Why the need to enter a character name or ID for each character you want to monitor?
Or am I missing something blatently obvious that I need re-educating quickly?
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.19 22:01:00 -
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I got that it's not your account. What I don't understand is where the security hole that enumerating characters presents. Especially when compared to giving your account username and password out like people do at present.
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.20 18:40:00 -
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I'm so glad to see the "characters on your account" page is in the initial release of the API, together with the high/low security APIkeys for different application purposes.
Fantastic stuff
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.21 21:40:00 -
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The API documentation for the charactersheet.xml.aspx appears to show that implants are back in the XML. This doesn't appear to be the case in the actual XMLs I've downloaded.
Any chance of getting the implant information back on this file please?
Thanks in advance
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.21 23:14:00 -
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Originally by: BubbaZanetti
The MyEve character xml stuff has all the character ID's on the account in it. So I got my character ID's from there. But wanting to move to a purely programmatic solution, so that any app can start with just the user and key, I can't find a query that takes only those and returns character ID's.
Am I just overlooking it?
I tried querying the character sheet page without a character ID, but it just returned an error.
Send the userID and APIKey to the /account/characters.xml.aspx file and it will return all the characters on that account including names, IDs, corp names and corp IDs.
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.27 20:38:00 -
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Couple of requests please Garthagk
1. Any chance of having the implant information back in the character XML. Your API documentation example shows this information but it doesn't seem to have made it over to the live version.
2. Is it possible to have the character ID and/or character Name included in the /char/SkillInTraining.xml.aspx file?
Thanks...and great work on the API by the way! Now if we can just get hold of a new data export...
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Vessper
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.06.29 07:41:00 -
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Originally by: Selene D'Celeste Just finished reading the thread and playing around with the API in Python for a bit and I was wondering, is everyone still toying around, or are real projects starting to get underway? I saw one or two mentioned here, and I was just wondering what everyone is working on =)
My app (EveHQ) used to use account usernames and passwords to download character XML data. That system has now been replaced by the introduction of the new API. Also, the API allows me to keep the skill list up-to-date pending a new release of the full data export
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