EVE Technology Lab

I am making a tool for a certain activity I participate in, in Eve.

This tool is to allow people to sign up for fleets by typing in their character's name.

I am trying to avoid requiring API information, so I just want the person to be able to type, and as they type a standard AutoComplete box will popup giving suggestions on matching character names they can choose from.

I am also trying to avoid a full-fledged authentication system, because I know people don't like signing up all the time for a myriad of sites. All I want to do, is once you select the character, you can claim it by assigning a password to it; much like eveboard.com.

So, does anyone know where I can get access to an api endpoint of some sort that allows me to query characters for basic information: Name, CharacterID, Avatar (and at most, maybe Corp information)?

Or, is there some way to get this data myself (though I would really rather not have to store/maintain every single character in the game for an extremely small subset of the userbase that is actually going to use the site.

If you can't get the data you want and were prepared to forgo autocomple, there's the xml endpoint "eve/CharacterID" which would allow you to convert the character name they provide into an id, then you could use eve/CharacterAffiliation to find out their corp/alliance.

Oh, I see what you mean now. Yeah, the eve/CharacterID endpoint just takes names. I was misreading it at first. It doesn't do a search on a string and return a list of possibilities. I still can't find anything that does that, but I think that is fine.

At the end of the day, you should know how to spell your character's name anyway. So I may just go that route.

And since I'm using .NET, I just tested EveLib and, using your idea, is exactly what I need.

why not use the eve sso to do this (they login with eve details and select their char)? I dont know if this will work in .net but i know some mobile applications have it nearly working.