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I'm a webdev and am used to dealing with PHP and MySQL, had an idea for an web app for EVE and thought "Can't be too hard, can it?"
But I can't even start. I don't know where to go to get the necessary information.
The tutorial stickied here seems to be terribly outdated, the developers.eveonline.com site has minimal information, and the libraries are overwhelming (as well as not very documented).

I don't know if I'm taking the wrong approach here. My webapp only needs to be able to fetch public character data and public killmails (from a link pasted by the user. I'm not trying to make another killboard site, I promise). These requests are supposed to happen only when an user inputs information, so the overly complicated stuff such as cronjobs don't seem really useful to me, but every resource I find seems to focus on this kind of stuff.

I might need a way to have users authenticate their characters, but I want to learn the basics before I tackle that problem.

The best resource right now for the XML API is https://neweden-dev.com/API

If you want public character data, you're probably looking at using something like CharacterInfo from the XML API.

For kilmails, you can get the user to copy the CREST URL from the client and parse that directly, it outputs JSON.
If you want to use existing killboard links instead, Zkillboard has a good API for getting their kills and has info on their site.

For character auth, use SSO. Information for that is on the developer site.

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Hey mate,.

I use Phealng (https://github.com/3rdpartyeve/phealng) it is very simple to use. Peter has done a grate job with it and he also updates it when required from my experience.
It doesnt put the content directly into my database, i do that and it allows me to place the content in multiple tables if required with no edit to source.

If you dont want to create the tables however you can use yapeal (https://github.com/Dragonrun1/yapeal) this will put the content directly into your database for you and than you just need to build some stuff around it and off you go. Little harder to extend and if the api changes such as something is added (new field) in one of the api's it will required Dragonrun to update before you can get it in the database unless you do that yourself.

CREST is suppose to be self documenting if you use OPTIONS instead of GET, or POST at the HTTP level but many endpoints aren't public yet so it's a bit hit or miss if you get everything you might want/need from what I've seen so far.

On the XML API being the 'old stuff' with all the changes and updates that have been happening there it actually been becoming even better and more useful over the last few months thanks to CCP FoxFour's work on it.

Ok - so I want to pull information like skills, assets, transactions etc - I don't see endpoints for these in CREST - so is the XML API the only way to work with this kind of information at this point?

I was imagining that the SSO would work in concert with CREST - is the SSO nothing at all but authentication at this point, with no controlled access to character data?

https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/crestDocumentation.php has some documentation on crest, based on a beta that Foxfour released.

Doesn't work in firefox, due to some oddness with CORS. works in chrome.


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