Market Discussions

If I was in your situation...

As no price data is being seeded to Eve-Central I would have an alt out in null and begin the process of clicking each item you're interested in. Then use something like Eve-Mon which will scrape your cache and upload that info to an endpoint such as Eve-Central. I would then use the Eve-Central API to retrieve the data.

You might be thinking ..err but if I'm going to do all that I might as well do the export thinggy if I've got an alt out there already, in the long run doing it this way will save you a tremendous amount of time even if to begin with you need to put in those first clicks to get Eve-Central seeded with prices. Hopefully the null price updating part will deminish slighly as you seed Eve-Central with the prices.

Theres no quick fix to the lack of pricing info though if thats what you're hoping for.

Fly safe. o7

When you look up a item in the market, the data goes into your cache file. You can use this cache file to retrieve the data and automatically enter it into a spreadsheet. (This is how eve-central gets data, from volunteers who enable cache-uploading.)

To automatically cycle through the market, you can write a script for the IGB(in game browser) that will cycle through a list of items. You will have to compile this list youself, obtaining the item ID's for each item from the database or various other means. You cannot simply say search item ID's 1-65000, due to the fact that not all item ID's are associated with a real item and also due to the fact that CCP only allows 1 browser-client operation per second. So pick your 300-600 items and let it run for 5-10 min.

You will need to learn a bit how to interface the IGB and eve market to automate cycling through the item list, but it shouldn't be too hard. Same with reading and organizing the cache file.


An easy way to avoid a lot of work would be to use eve-central's uploader (or eve-mon as it pools to the same database) and use a script to import prices from eve-central. This would save you from learning how to read the cache. Downside is that everyone will be able to see the prices as well, and you will have to wait until eve-central does an upload cycle for new data.

http://pastebin.com/YfAe1vmH is most of a script to use the IGB to search items. NOTE: i did not write this, parts may be missing, i do not claim to own this. It is just an example of how stuff works.

CCPEVE.showMarketDetails(ids[current_id]); is the line you should be looking at