EVE Technology Lab

Hi there o/
I always wanted to do a public app for EVE (Since as web developer I like to create things ), and well, I have done a ganker tracker (only for mining barges, exhumers and orca on highsec) , I know that there was already one done but for me it was a bit hard to find the last kills for example in a region or it didn't show the ganker corp/alliance (only when using the game browser).

So, basically for when I'm mining I always like to search if there is any activity near my place, and maybe start moving or just stop mining.

In the past 3 days, I found a way to have the kills from the zkillboard API (to get the losses), and later to check if this one is made by a war or not, i used the crest API. So once this have as 0 the warID, my app add it's like a gank (I cannot still look how if the victim has turned to suspect or not, or he agressed a suspect, because some gankers doesn't have a loss from concord on zkillboard). I do this process every 2 minutes, with a php script.

This the url to the web app: http://tracker.eveminingsquad.com/index.php

It is already finished, it searches for all (corps, alliances, characters, systems, constellations and regions). Also, I'll set up more calls to the API (statistics)

I made the design of the app like in this style, because of suggestions talking with other spanish people, if you don't like the design, just tell how I could improve it, because I'm not a web designer, I tried to show the ganks in a different way (it shows like it was a zkillboard kill on the main table), but I couldn't do another design, since I'm not good drawing user interfaces, and I don't know to display in another way, since I want to show how many ganked, and their corp/alliance.

I would really like to get suggestions, or your opinion of how do you see it, to improve the app, I'm still working on the public API for other developers that want to use the data that my app have.
This app, is hosted on where I have my blog about industry and some pvp thing (spanish blog), so for that you'll see why the app is translated for 2 languages right now (english and spanish). If you would like to have it on another language, just send me a message.

This tool have a public API which can be used to get data from the gank tracker.
You can check the information about the API here: http://tracker.eveminingsquad.com/index.php?vista=api
I still need to add the statistics to the API (the statistics which I show on the solar systems page, constellation, region or character profiles, corps and alliance).

Right now you can get from the API the next thing:
- Last gank (cached)
- Dangerous gankers
- Dangerous systems (systems that have a lot of ganks)
- list of ganks

If someone needs a extra language, just mail me, and I'll send you the translation file ;)

Well, I can set up some desktop notifications with sounds, and save for example the locations that someone would like and store it up in a cookie, if you like in this way I can try to do it.

But first, I'm trying to fix why the website doesn't seem to update with the lastest kills, since sometimes it takes 1h or 30min, just to display the last kill, and later finish the auto-update.

But ty for your suggestion, I'll try to as soon as possible.

Ok, then I could do for example allow the users POST the public url of the killmail or with the API. Well, I'll do tomorrow first the way to post the killmail url, and later finish the auto-update (so the user doesn't need to refresh

Ty for saying that, because I didn't know about the cached request from zkillboard.

I finally contacted with him, and well now I have the kills sync (I still do the requests every 2 minutes), now I'm working on finish the statistics page for locations (region/constellation/solar system), next will be the statistics for gankers/corps and alliance.

And finally some global, and after this I'll finish the search input that I have added to the toolbar.

And thanks for the help.

I have updated today the website with more things:
- I enabled the search tool (only for regions, constellations and systems)
- I have finally finished the region, constellations and systems page

I have also, did a limit of kills that I'm showing on the main page, I'll do later the pagination since right now I'm only showing the last 15 ganks.

I still have to finish the page for the user statistics, and about the xmpp, I'm working on it (the only is I don't know how to connect as anonymous to the xmpp service xd).

EDIT: I finished the way to add the notificacion to the jabber, but i still don't know how to connect as anonymous xd.