EVE Swagger Interface (ESI) is an API to get data from the EVE server. It replaces CREST and the XML API which will shut down on May 8th, 2018.[1]
Remember that scamming with API is specifically not allowed[2]
Several guides on how to use ESI exist:
Further some libraries exist to use ESI with Python.
Api authorization managment
You can manage API permissions from you at https://community.eveonline.com/support/third-party-applications/
In here you can see all applications that have access to your API. You can see exactly what scopes you have authorized for them. You can also revoke authorizations.
See also
- https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/introducing-esi/ Original announcement to introduce ESI.
- http://eveonline-third-party-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/crest/index.html
- https://esi.tech.ccp.is/latest/
- https://github.com/devfleet/awesome-eve#developer-tools-resources-and-apis Some ressources to work with ESI.