EVE Technology Lab

After a brief hiatus, I've brought EveKit back in a slightly more manageable form. EveKit can sync your EVE XML API data to the cloud, and provides access to your data through a Swagger annotated REST API. You can also get bulk snapshots of your data if that's your thing. However, my favorite feature is complete history: want to know what your character sheet looked like a few months ago? No problem, just ask EveKit to return a view of your data at a specific time.

I don't expect I'll get more users than I had the first time around (which was essentially just me), but you may at least be interested in the source code which you can find on the GitHub page(s).

I plan to continue my work on integrating with Amazon Echo (see blog below for that article). Soon you'll be able to query your EveKit data from your Echo device (e.g. "Alexa: ask Auren to check my EVE mail").

Links:

• EveKit site (In case forums mangles the link, this is https://evekit.orbital.enterprises)
• Blog announcement
• Orbital Enterprises forums
• Source (100% open source)

In no particular order:

• I moved to DigitalOcean which is significantly cheaper (cost is now basically noise). I'm sacrificing geo-replication and load-balancing, but I'll worry about those things if many people start using the service. I DO keep backups of course.
• Everything is now 100% open source, so worst case you can run it yourself. It's also 100% Java which means you could embed in jEveAssets if the "always on" feature of the web service is less important. If you wanted to go some variant of this route, there are decent instructions here. I'm using Hibernate, so the DB requirement can easily be met with SQLite for the embedded case.
• Unlimited history still works. That's probably the killer feature.
• You don't necessarily have to write your own API library if you're willing to use a Swagger generated library. There are instructions on how to do this here (scroll to the bottom).

I'm certainly happy to help you get the API working with Swagger or however you choose to do it. The field query interface I added for this version takes some getting used to, but is very powerful as it exposes very flexible queries. It's all documented here.

@Som Boty
Try: https://evekit.orbital.enterprises/#/main/news
Maybe you need to copy-paste it...
I think the forum mess up the URL somehow

@salacious necrosis
Thank you for the resources. I will look into it when I get time to work on the feature.
And thank you for the offer to help, I will evemail you if hit a wall and need a helping hand to get it working.
It's also, good to know that the cost has been dealt with.
Open sourcing the project is a great decision as well, even though, I properly won't be to run the service myself, as I just have a basic PHP host.

I have to quote myself, from the goodbye thread:

With Swagger you found a way to do just that, that is really amazing