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Zerus Straganiarz
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2017-04-16 16:57:19 UTC
Hello there, here comes my first post.

I do a bit of planetary interaction, so i though about building a website to monitor all my alts. Instead of login them all in and pressing buttons, I could have a website, where I could login the characters and get a graph displayed either something is working or not... I thought to use ESI for that, as im not familiar with XMLApi at all.

If you have a few alts, there is no need to use the tool at all... Even through, I decided to build it just for the sake of learning something and gaining some experience with PHP and webdev.

So, I can login a single character, get all the returned info and store it somewhere. Great. Than I can iterate through stored information in order to check on things... Great job, CCP. Im impressed.

The problem is, however, the fact that i have to manually login all the characters through SSO, which is a bit of typing...
I tried linking the Account to facebook, but only one can be linked at a time.


Therefore, I'd like to know whether there is a way to login more characters at once into ESI... - permamently.
or... make SSO remember more than one account...
or....somewhat keep-alive ESI connection, so I could just login to a website and have access to all the information.
or... solve it somehow.
Blacksmoke16
Imperial Academy
#2 - 2017-04-16 18:52:10 UTC
CCP stated ESI is only going to be an character API

"ESI is specifically and deliberately a character oriented API. We will not be delivering account level information in ESI. So yes, if you want to monitor multiple characters from the same account you will have to add each one individually."

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6702732#post6702732

Yes it is annoying to auth multiple characters on multiple accounts but you should only have to do it once. Then use the stored token/etc data to just do what you need to do. Long as you never revoke the scopes the refresh token will last forever.