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Not quite seeing that. Here's a different example - note the dates and times specified:

-- Get everything for January 2012 but limit it to 500 since I seem to be getting stuff at the end of the end anyway so lets try it
> wget -O results.dat http://eve-kill.net/epic/startDate:2012-01-01_00.00.00/endDate:2012-01-31_23.59.59/mailLimit:500/mask:1607166

> python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:44:07)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import simplejson as json
>>> kills = json.load(file("results.dat"))
>>> dates = [k["timestamp"] for k in kills]
>>> dates.sort()
>>> dates[0]
'2012-01-31 22:42:00'
>>> dates[-1]
'2012-01-31 23:59:00'
>>>

So the earliest datetime is 2012-01-31 22:24:00 which makes sense based on the descending order you mentioned above. That's fine. Now lets set the end date to the earliest date from above and requery.

> wget -O results.dat http://eve-kill.net/epic/startDate:2012-01-01_00.00.00/endDate:2012-01-31_22.42.00/mailLimit:500/mask:1607166

> python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:44:07)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import simplejson as json
>>> kills = json.load(file("results.dat"))
>>> dates = [k["timestamp"] for k in kills]
>>> dates.sort()
>>> dates[0]
'2012-01-31 22:42:00'
>>> dates[-1]
'2012-01-31 23:59:00'
>>>

Now I'm perplexed, I got the same data even with a different end datetime Why are kills returned that are outside of the datetime range specified? What am I doing wrong? Seems like the time part is being ignored - maybe I'm not specifying it correctly - I'll double check the instructions.

What is with the values like Pilot Efficiency, Damage Done, Damage received, Kills and losses related to a month or a year?

Any chance to provide the killmail in the same xml format idfeed uses? That would make migration from idfeed to epic much easier.

Added a new method called orderBy

It can be used with DESC and ASC..

But now the startDate and endDate methods work as expected (unless you select to use DESC, then it fails again)
And minKLLid and maxKLLid also works, which was due to a bug in the else if structure (apparently it kicked kllid before minkllid, who knew!)

Now im off to code a mail fetcher for EDK using EPIC! woo

I have altered the space to a + instead of a _

No worries, if you havn't done it, it does it for you, aslong as CCP doesn't allow _ in names, we'll be fine

raw mail fetching has been fixed, and i have also altered the layout of items.
Sorry to those of you who used it for something, but it's better this way

Also tossed together an EDK4 killmail fetcher, that uses EPIC, which you can find here
http://eve-id.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=505&t=18815

Enjoy!

I'll sort a rawApi tomorrow, that spits things out just like the API does (just this is in JSON)
This said however, i'll be spending most of my time coding on kingboard.

However, EPIC will be ported to that aswell (Where i can also fix the some of the more, uh, glaring mistakes i made this time around)

i dont remember the specific URL you used to query idfeed, i just know that we banned several users of idfeed, for hammering it either too much over a period of itme, or by using way, WAY too many concurrent IDs (allianceID=id1,id2,id3,id4,id5 etc.)

You probably ended up among them.

Best way to make sure that doesn't happen is by not fetching more than once every 15 minutes, and by doing multiple requests (one / two id's pr. request)
Even if you decided to add 200 id's, you'd still be limited to 50 results via idfeed.

EPIC is better tho, since it can deliver 500 results in less time than it takes idfeed to deliver 50, so there's that..

I haven't sifted through this entire thread, and I don't normally come to these forums. But over the past few weeks we've noticed that evekill has become increasingly unstable and is prone to being down for lengthier periods of time. I'm assuming that it's related to this new API stuff you're up to. The message on eve-kill says that it's currently cutoff from CCP's API system entire. Do you have any more information on why this is or what's going on?

I expected it would be possible to say "here's the last known killid that I know, give me up to 100 new mails starting from that id", but as I understand from what you say, this is not possible?

What is your recommended way of retrieving new mails?

Currently I'm just using http://eve-kill.net/epic/mask:2097164/mailLimit:500/combinedPilot:NED-Clan so that I always get the latest 500 mails for NED-Clan.

If however our website would go down for a few days, and our corp would get >500 kills in that time, any kills older than those last 500 wouldn't get synced.

Would you say using minKLLid of last known killid and a maxKLLid of minKLLid+10000000 would really be the best way to go?