Hi
I think I might be missing something really simple but I’ve spent all day reading the ESI documentation and I can’t help but feel there is something missing.
I want to retrieve the portraits of pilots to display them on my EVE Cemetery website but the call to retrieve the portraits requires a character ID. I only have the character names, how do I get the ID from the character name?
The route appears in the old API here:http://wiki.eve-id.net/APIv2_Eve_CharacterID_XML
Is this an oversight or am I just being stupid?
Assuming you just have a random character_id and not their token or something:
One of those would work. Also checkout https://developers.eveonline.com/blog/article/from-image-server-to-a-whole-new-image-service-1 .
you can get the character id from the name of the character, using the search path.
/*
* Loads names from ESI, using ids
* @param nameids A range where the nameids can be found
* @return the names of the people
* @customfunction
*/
function nameloader(nameIDs) {
if (typeof nameIDs == 'undefined'){
throw 'need name ids';
}
var names = new Array();
var dirtynameids = new Array();
var cleannameids = new Array();
var url="https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/names/?datasource=tranquility";
nameIDs.forEach (function (row) {
row.forEach ( function (cell) {
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May be of some use, if you want to run it through google sheets. Or just want an example of someone using it.
Thanks! This was the solution I used in the end.
I think I was going code blind and totally missed the search route.
This was the method I’ve used:
private function getCharacterIDbyName(string $character="Azia Burgi"){
$name=urlencode($character);
$url="https://esi.evetech.net/latest/search/?categories=character&search={$name}";
$resp_json=file_get_contents($url);
$response=json_decode($resp_json, true);
if(count($response)==0){
$id=false;
}else{
$id=$response['character'][0];
}
return $id;
}
I have noticed some weirdness being returned (404s for characters without a post-incursion face) and possibly deleted characters. I don’t suppose that there anywhere that retained the pre-incursion portraits?
Thanks again
The ccp hosted site of the old portraits went down back in 2013. They are available as a dump on the toolkit page
system1
November 14, 2020, 6:25pm
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