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Am I doing CREST right?

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Jaylee Mabata
Prime Investment Management and Research
#1 - 2016-05-17 15:41:39 UTC
Greetings all,

Just delving into the potentials of utilizing CREST API for personal use/fun. I am however, a programing neophyte. My question is this:

Am I in theory able to type into my browser the following:

https://crest-tq.eveonline.com/characters/30002782/location/

To receive something like this in response:

{
"solarSystem": {
"id_str": "30002782",
"href": "https://crest-tq.eveonline.com/solarsystems/30002782/",
"id": 30002782,
"name": "Kamio"
}
}

I got this information by attempting to navigate the Third Party developer documentation here:

https://eveonline-third-party-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/crest/character/char_location.html

In any case, I simply get back a 404 error in my webpage (I'm using edge browser/windows 10). Are my expectations for this to work too high? is it not that simple?

Thanks for the insight!
Jaylee Mabata
Prime Investment Management and Research
#2 - 2016-05-17 16:24:01 UTC
Ok, since posting that, I've made a bit more sense of things. Some of the basic endpoints will provide me results in my browser, but certain endpoints (the "authenticated" endpoints) will just provide an error unless I sign up on the developer portal. This may be the answer to my question, but feel free to make me feel better about myself by telling me i'm on the right path!

Fly safe!
Som Boty
Super Mother Fan Club
#3 - 2016-05-25 05:28:27 UTC
You're on the right path!