Eve Online API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://esi.evetech.net/latest/markets/prices/?datasource=tranquility

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 1,105,342 bytes · compressed

Response time

609 ms (median of 3) · fastest 320 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 · certificate issued by Amazon

Browser CORS

Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Recorded

2026-08-10

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

Example Response

Illustrative shape only — we were not able to call this endpoint (it requires credentials or exposes no public sample URL), so the fields below show the kind of data this API returns rather than a recorded response.

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Eve Online",
  "data": "Third-Party Developer Documentation",
  "source": "Eve Online"
}

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

const url = "https://esi.evetech.net/ui";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://esi.evetech.net/ui"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/markets/prices/?datasource=tranquility"

What Can You Build?

// Fetch character or game data
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' };
const response = await fetch(`https://esi.evetech.net/ui`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
const items = data.results || data.characters || data.data || [data];
const characters = Array.isArray(items) ? items : [items];
characters.slice(0, 5).forEach(c => {
  console.log(`🎮 ${c.name || c.title}: ${c.description || 'No description'}`);
});

// Get random trivia or game fact
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' };
const response = await fetch(`https://esi.evetech.net/ui`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
const trivia = data.results?.[0] || data;
console.log('Trivia:', trivia.question || trivia.text || JSON.stringify(trivia));
if (trivia.correct_answer) {
  console.log('Answer:', trivia.correct_answer);
}

// Fetch game statistics
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' };
const response = await fetch(`https://esi.evetech.net/ui`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Game data from Eve Online:', data);
const entries = Array.isArray(data) ? data : data.data || data.results || [data];
entries.slice(0, 5).forEach((entry, i) => {
  console.log(`#${i+1}: ${entry.name || entry.title} - Score: ${entry.score || 'N/A'}`);
});

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

How This API Fails

We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.

404 page not found

{
  "error": "Invalid tenant"
}

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.