EVE Stable Infrastructure: Difference between revisions

EVE Stable Infrastructure (ESI) is an API that can be used by [[Third-party tools|third party applications]] to interact with data from the EVE game servers. It replaces CREST and the XML API which were shut down on May 8th, 2018.<ref>Dev insights blog: [https://developers.eveonline.com/blog/article/important-information-on-the-future-of-the-eve-api Important Information on the Future of the EVE API] (2018-01-03)</ref> The data returned by ESI is in the JSON format.

ESI has both public-data and authenticated endpoints, the latter of which require a character to log in via [[EVE SSO]] to their character account to gain access to information specific to their character or, provided they have the appropriate [[Managing corporation members#List of roles|corporate role]], their corporation.

CCP has indicated that their goal is to completely replace the [[Static Data Export]] (SDE) with ESI, but as of September 2023, there are still many missing features. For example, industry recipes still require the [[Static Data Export|SDE]].

As a reminder to developers, it is expressly forbidden for developers of third party applications to use them for ill intent<ref>Dev insights blog: [https://developers.eveonline.com/blog/reminder-to-developers-no-scamming Reminder to Developers: No Scamming] (2016-07-04)</ref><ref>Developer documentation: [https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/resources/license License]</ref>

As of March 2025 ESI provides 195 endpoints, 76 of which related to public data and need no character or client authentication, and 119 of which are authenticated as they relate to privileged information about specific characters or corporations<ref>Yurix: [https://yurix.ch/blog/esi-endpoint-stats.html ESI endpoint counts]</ref>.

| Killmails || 1 || 2 || Retrieve killmails relating to a character, or all details on a killmail for which you have the appropriate information.

| Mail || || 9 || All actions related to viewing, sending and deleting in-game mail for a character.

| Search || || 1 || Perform a search on the provided string against the chosen categories. If for a character, will also search private things the character can see.

| Status || 1 || || Status of the game: Whether it's running, what version, and how many players are logged in.

| User Interface || || 5 || Allows opening certain UI windows for a character if they are logged in to the game.

| Wallet || || 6 || Character and Corporation wallet balances and transactions.

| Wars || 3 || || Details on all wars that have happened in the game, including their killmails.

== Examples ==

To get a list of all alliances in EVE, the  <code>alliances</code> endpoint can be used. It lists the alliance ID of all alliances. Since it is a public endpoint, it is even possible to a look at it in the browser, although the data comes is in machine-readable JSON: https://esi.evetech.net/alliances

Some endpoints also support parameter in the URL. For example the type endpoint <code>universe/types/{type_id}/</code> returns information about a type ID. The rifter has type ID 587. To look up information like its description, the <code>{type_id}</code> part in the URL is replaced with the type ID. The full URL would then be https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/types/587/  https://esi.evetech.net/universe/types/587

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

== References ==

[[Category:Applications]]