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Why can't I query EVE-Central for all prices?
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Jable
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-01-26 00:59:58 UTC
I'm a computer tech, good w/ formulas and SQL but new to XML and APIs.

It's apparently poor form (not to mention complicated) to pull a list of every typeID with a few price stats for the day.

However, I'm permitted to download a 350mb dump file any time I like, and execute the queries myself.

Why is this, and am I missing something? I'd like a simple feed or csv dump of volume, 5% metrics etc for every market item by typeID. Daily, hourly, whatever.

Is there such a thing?
Dei
Cosmic Core Industries
#2 - 2013-01-26 18:49:13 UTC
There's a firehose stream of market info: https://eve-market-data-relay.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

But you can query all the typeIDs from Eve Central, you just have to split them up due to URL length restrictions. You can update the info whenever you want, but you have to split them up into batches of 50 or so typeIDs in each query. Pick a programming language to loop round your list of typeIDs and you'll be good to go.