EVE General Discussion

CCP pls halp.

But seriously, the guys at EMDR are doing incredible stuff, it's a shame there's no support for easily accessable marketdata from CCP's end.

Wonder what happened to break it.

They changed the layout of the data in the cache. From what I've heard, it's mostly reorganising things like the namespace.

Pita to fix the cache scrapers, but not hellish difficult.

I've got a post up asking CCP for a crest based api, but it's a game design issue, rather than a technical one.

You're right, technically cache scraping is not currently something the EULA allows for. But as we've stated, it's not something we'll enforce.

In this specific case, the fact that cache scrapers broke is a side-effect of a very major engineering change in the EVE code base that's been in the works for a while. I won't get into the specifics other than the fact from our perspective it's great and wonderful. It's a shame it broke some cache scrapers though, as that was not intentional.

If we decide to make away with the cache, then we'll make sure not to create a huge void in it's place. We had this discussion at Fanfest, and I've had this discussion both with other CCPers and with the CSM lately as to how to remove the cache without causing major disruption.

That's not to promise that anything is going to happen. As a security guy, I can't make promises. But I know there's a desire for the cache to be removed, as it's actually decreasing performance rather than increasing it.

Thanks for this Stillman, we've got it mostly sorted now, a couple of the scraping libraries have been fixed and we're just waiting on the EveMon dev to accept the patch that was submitted to him then all should be back to normal. :)
And I agree, unifying everything under your fancy carbon framework can only be a good thing ;)

Certainly that's the logical conclusion. But if/when that would happen, I do not know. That's something I'd suggest you make the CSM push for. I'm pretty sure they'd agree with you.

I read from the .structure file that is created and from there you can see where buy/sell orders begin/end and check that you have order you want based on the rest of the data thats in the file.

So you don't feel that EULA §9c: (You may not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile, or attempt to reverse engineer or derive source code from, all or any portion of the Software, or from any information accessible through the System (including, without limitation, data packets transmitted to and from the System over the Internet), or anything incorporated therein, or analyze, decipher, "sniff" or derive code (or attempt to do any of the foregoing) from any packet stream transmitted to or from the System, whether encrypted or not, or permit any third party to do any of the same, and you hereby expressly waive any legal rights you may have to do so.) applies… why?

Its just like Icelandic banks, you give them money and they give you a 6% intrest, or they won't.

I know... Icesave jokes are so 2008...

I dont know about you but I can hit the market export button much faster than once every 5 seconds.