# How can I get skills information by skill id?

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**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878 "2022-10-25T15:37:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Dm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sergey_dm/32/411908_2.png) [@Sergey\_Dm](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sergey_Dm)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878/1 "2022-10-25T15:37:16Z")

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I see [EVE Swagger Interface](https://esi.evetech.net/ui/#/Skills).  
But I don’t see api for

1. get all skills (not by character\_id)
2. search skill information by skill\_id.  
Help me please find those api.

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**Author:** ![Blacksmoke16](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/blacksmoke16/32/376589_2.png) [@Blacksmoke16](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Blacksmoke16)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878/2 "2022-10-25T17:23:45Z")

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I think you’d want to use the SDE for this. Basically find all items with a `category_id` of `16`. Could do this via ESI as well, but would be a lot of requests as you’d have to like:

1. Hitup [https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/categories/16/](https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/categories/16/) to get the category info
2. Hit up the groups endpoint for each value in `groups`
3. Hitup the type endpoint for each type in `types`
4. Possibly more requests to resolve dogma attribute/effects for each type.

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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Dm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sergey_dm/32/411908_2.png) [@Sergey\_Dm](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sergey_Dm)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878/3 "2022-10-25T19:27:38Z")

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Thank you so much. I noticed the icon\_id for the skills, but didn’t find an API for them. Tell me, is it possible to get the API for icons?

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**Author:** ![Col\_Crunch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/col_crunch/32/381390_2.png) [@Col\_Crunch](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Col_Crunch)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878/4 "2022-10-25T23:33:47Z")

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> **[Image Server](https://docs.esi.evetech.net/docs/image_server.html)**
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> The official repository for ESI documentation

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**Author:** ![Tonto\_Auri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tonto_auri/32/388339_2.png) [@Tonto\_Auri](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tonto_Auri)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878/5 "2022-10-26T06:50:00Z")

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This is static data. You have to either use SDE for it, or do your homework to load and cache the data locally as outlined by Blacksmoke16. “Cache locally” is a key word. You MUST NOT pester API servers for data that do not change that often.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-get-skills-information-by-skill-id/381878/6 "2023-01-24T06:50:08Z")

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