What is the toolkit?

The data export/toolkit is means for the community, on top of the API to create 3rd party tools and/or websites.

This toolkit includes the following items:

Data:

  • Map information such as solarsystems, constellations, regions
  • jump connections, stargates, orbital bodies
  • types, groups and categories for everything in-game
  • manufacture and refine information for every said types
  • and much more

Images:

  • Icons

    Image sheets as used by the client cut into the sizes each icon is available in as well as NPC corp logos

  • Renders

    512x512 images of ships, drones, structures, etc in the format [typeID].png

  • Types

    32x32 and 64x64 icons of all types in the game, including blueprints in the format [typeID]_[sz].png

Data exports are in the form of MSSQL database backups (.BAK), which third party developers can restore on their machines and extract the data into whatever form their application uses. If you do not have any available methods of working on MSSQL databases then try SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, as it has the nifty pro of being free.

You can see some of our community websites in action that have benefited from this toolkit tremendously.

You can also join the irc channel '#eve-dev' on irc network 'coldfront' (irc.coldfront.net), note that this channel is not an official CCP channel, but a community driven channel helping out anyone with challenging technical questions regarding the toolkit and EVE in general.

Files:

CHANGES TO THE DATA EXPORT

We are changing the way we handle the Data Export. Please refer to the dev blog here for more information.

From Inferno deployment onwards we will be delivering both YAML files and the database backup. Here is an example of the file so you can prepare ahead of time.

UPCOMING FILES: