Third Party Developer Blog

Exceptional third-party developers!   A couple of quick updates on the ESI and the SDE:   ESI: On 11 July 2024, a few enhancements were made to a selection of existing ESI endpoints to restore them back to full functionality. You can find the complete list of updates here: https://github.com/esi/esi-issues/blob/master/changelog.md#2024-07-11.  Please note that the cache for individual endpoints will expire naturally, so some endpoints will start showing the new data once their cache expires. SDE: On 11 July 2024 a new patch was deployed (2024-07-11.1), which contained a new selection of skills for the SKINR. An updated SDE to include these new skills is scheduled to run at 10:00 UTC on 12 July 2024 and will be made available on https://developers.eveonline.com/resource from 10:30 UTC onwards.   Thank you all for your continued support and dedication! o7 read more

Hello, my wonderful 3rd party developer community!   A quick update from me - CCP Stroopwafel just blasted out a new SDE for everyone a short while ago and is availble over on the resources page.   During yesterday's update, new values were assigned to planets/stars in terms of output in addition to Sov upgrade costs; these updated values are now reflected in the latest SDE.   Happy number crunching! o7 read more

Hey everyone!   Quick update - a small patch is scheduled for tomorrow (20 June 2024). Consequently, we'll follow up with a new SDE deployment, which should be completed around 1500 UTC and available on https://developers.eveonline.com/resource shortly after.   There will also be a minor outage on ESI - it will be disabled prior to downtime at about 10:55 UTC, and service should resume at 11:30 UTC. We're working on a few databases and wanted to ensure minimal impact during that time.   Thank you all! o7 read more

Hey folks!   Quick update - today's patch saw a bundle of updates to static data, so we saw fit to rerun another SDE ahead of next week's initially planned deployment.   We'll still deploy one around Tuesday/Thursday next week, but we just wanted to run a new one to encompass today's changes.   It is available over on https://developers.eveonline.com/resource now!   o7 read more

Our wonderful developer community, EVE Onlines' next expansion, Equinox, is here! Let's dive straight into it. SDE Update: We mentioned in the last update that we planned on making a few changes to the SDE; the first iteration of that arrives with this expansion: All yaml files now stick to a firm 2-space indent. [The inconsistency between 2 and 4 was angering CCP Stroopwaffel, so this has been adjusted] The Korean localization (ko) was missing for types, groups, and categories, which are now included. This means that the SDE zip has grown by a few MB because of the increase in text Some files have been renamed. Their contents remain mostly the same (except the added ko localization): typeIDs.yaml => types.yaml ... read more

Our wonderful developer community, EVE Onlines' next expansion, Equinox, is here! Let's dive straight into it. SDE Update: We mentioned in the last update that we planned on making a few changes to the SDE; the first iteration of that arrives with this expansion: All yaml files now stick to a firm 2-space indent. [The inconsistency between 2 and 4 was angering CCP Stroopwaffel, so this has been adjusted] The Korean localization (ko) was missing for types, groups, and categories, which are now included. This means that the SDE zip has grown by a few MB because of the increase in text Some files have been renamed. Their contents remain mostly the same (except the added ko localization): typeIDs.yaml => types.yaml ... read more

Greetings, developers! Today's post covers Plans for developer-related news, an SDE update and clearing up an old "Temporary" alert that existed here. News update: We know it's been a long time since this page was updated, but it's time we have a home for third-party developer-related content once again. We had been using a combination of the forums, Tweetfleet Slack and Discord to convey messages, but having an RSS news feed enabled post and a clean-from-clutter central location for information was the most requested thing from the community, so resurrecting this blog, as it has all the desired functionality seems to be the best avenue to facilitate that request! SDE: This is a two-fold announcement - the SDE with the updates from the balance patch from 20 February 2024 is now available at https://developers.eveonline.com/resource ... read more

Hi developer friends! We'd like to inform you of upcoming SSO changes which might affect your application if you are developing 3rd party apps using ESI or using the EVE SSO for user authentication. We'll be making the following changes on November 1st 2021. Deprecating obsolete endpoints The old OAuth endpoints oauth/authorize, oauth/token and oauth/verify will be deprecated. You should move your application over to v2/oauth/authorize and v2/oauth/token instead. The oauth/verify endpoint will also be deprecated, since the v2 endpoints return a JWT token, enabling your applications to validate the JWT tokens without having to make a request to the SSO for each token. Applications can fetch the required EVE SSO metadata from https://login.eveonline.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server to be able to validate JWT token signatures client-side. The deprecated endpoints might be removed at any given time ... read more

On 30 July 2020 in the ESI changelog we announced the deprecation of v4 version characters/{character_id}  ESI route on 15 September and subsequent removal on 21 September. Unfortunately we still see heavy traffic hitting that route which as of now has legacy status. Accordingly we've decided to postpone the (admittedly quite abrupt) removal. Its been rescheduled and now it will happen on 21st October 2021.  Please spread that information if you know any developer that might not follow changelog and/or Tweetfleet. read more

This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. Deprecated Information The information presented on this page is depreciated. Please see https://docs.esi.evetech.net/docs/sso/ for up-to-date information. Last month, we talked about auto generating a client library for ESI using Swagger Codegen. This month we will expand on this by stepping through the SSO authentication flow and using that authentication to make a call to the ESI endpoint /characters/{character_id}/standings. Typically, one would set up a server to handle most of this process, but today we're ... read more