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Is there an API to find an item's category (as per the Market)?

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Shei Bushaava
Neural Nexus
Plenitude Alliance
#1 - 2014-11-08 21:50:37 UTC
I want to be able to categorise items that I track - so for example if I pull down an item that I lookup as "Acolyte I" I also want to be able to find out it belongs to the "Drones" category.

As far as I can tell this isn't possible with any of the current APIs (EVE, eve-central, zKillboard).

Does anyone know any different? Question
Shei Bushaava
Neural Nexus
Plenitude Alliance
#2 - 2014-11-08 22:11:39 UTC
Actually I might have answered my own question - it looks as if there's a lot of data here which could hold the answers:

https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/dump/latest/

Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#3 - 2014-11-09 00:09:31 UTC
Yup Smile

Data that doesn't really change isn't generally in an API. It's in the static data extract

you want data from
invTypes
and invMarketGroups

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CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2014-11-09 09:58:10 UTC
There will be soon(tm)!

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#5 - 2014-11-09 23:21:52 UTC
\o/

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