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Importing EVE market cache data to excel

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Hel O'Ween
Men On A Mission
#21 - 2015-02-03 17:55:43 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Hel O'Ween wrote:
Casshern Price wrote:

Ah, does their API cover that? I had no idea :P I've noticed though that their order prices will sometimes differ drastically from the actual orders, leading me to believe that the data was pretty old. Is this just the current limitations of the 'real-time' APIs?


The EVE Central devs stated elsewhere i this forum that they are about to implement the CREST market data API, so be a bit patient with them. Blink

Currently there's no marketdata API, so they depend on players uploading data to them. So, if you feel their data is outdated, you haven't used their uploader (or EVEMon) to update the outdated data. Cool



Umm, there is an API, which is up and running. It's just not the easiest of things to use, in anything but a full blown language.



There's an (CCP) XML API for market data?

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Casshern Price
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2015-02-05 09:17:43 UTC
Is there??

Isn't there?!?!

The anticipation is killing me!! Haha
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#23 - 2015-02-05 11:10:01 UTC
Hel O'Ween wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Hel O'Ween wrote:
Casshern Price wrote:

Ah, does their API cover that? I had no idea :P I've noticed though that their order prices will sometimes differ drastically from the actual orders, leading me to believe that the data was pretty old. Is this just the current limitations of the 'real-time' APIs?


The EVE Central devs stated elsewhere i this forum that they are about to implement the CREST market data API, so be a bit patient with them. Blink

Currently there's no marketdata API, so they depend on players uploading data to them. So, if you feel their data is outdated, you haven't used their uploader (or EVEMon) to update the outdated data. Cool



Umm, there is an API, which is up and running. It's just not the easiest of things to use, in anything but a full blown language.



There's an (CCP) XML API for market data?



(could have sworn I'd posted a response)

Sorry Smile miscommunication on the type of API.

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Jess Ohaya
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#24 - 2015-02-06 07:31:33 UTC
Hi All,

Sorry to be the daft one - we've talked about it, and clarified it a couple of times - but I still don't understand what the answer actually is... Roll

Presuming:
(1) I know just enough about how the internets work to have myself a local database, and via mostly someone else's PHP I am able to populate said database with current market prices for a large number of items in a large number of systems by means of retrieving and storing prices from the Eve-Central API

(2) I don't expect I will ever understand how CREST really works enough for me to rebuild my current setup such that instead of asking Eve-Centrals api for current market data, I could instead ask crest.

(3) Outside of Jita prices, in order to get 'current' market data I need to cycle through my items in-game with Contribtastic open such that I actually get 'current' market prices from eve-central


Clarifying Answers please:
(A) Will it be possible for me to wait for Eve-Central to finish whatever it is that they are working on re: Crest such that my application will still work exactly how it does now ?

(B) Contribtastic currently has a note on it saying that "they are moving to crest soon, obviating the need for contribtastic" - Once contribtastic goes away, will Eve-Centrals APIs still work as they do now ? or is the work that eve-central is doing similar to what we have recently seen with other web-crest-market apps that just let you browse the market in a web browser ?

(C) Is it likely that someone will build a better(?) way for those of us who need to download and store a lot of market data to then work on locally/offline ?



It looks like I should actually be asking someone at Eve-Central... but hopefully someone here can just give a definitive Yes/No to A, B and C - Thanks ! Smile
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#25 - 2015-02-06 15:38:29 UTC
A: Yes
B: The last I heard, they're just feeding eve central from CREST. No perceptible change from users.
C: Yes. https://github.com/fuzzysteve/CrestLibrary does bits.

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Jess Ohaya
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#26 - 2015-02-06 22:38:04 UTC
Awesome - Thanks for clearing that up Steve!
Def Monk
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#27 - 2015-02-08 20:26:41 UTC
While I'm always all for people learning how to handle APIs and develop third-party apps for Eve, I feel like a lot of what people are asking for in this thread already gets covered by applications like Evernus.

It's a great program, and does anything I could have wanted for market trading (Including prices across new eden, comparisons, margins, etc. from Crest). I felt I should pop in and mention it to try and save people some time and possible headache.
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