# /search/ for type\_id && /markets/stations/{station\_id} && standings

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/search-for-type-id-markets-stations-station-id-standings/18865>\
**Category:** Third Party Developers\
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/search-for-type-id-markets-stations-station-id-standings/18865 "2017-08-22T02:43:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thanatos\_Molikroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/thanatos_molikroth/32/15111_2.png) [@Thanatos\_Molikroth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Thanatos_Molikroth)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/search-for-type-id-markets-stations-station-id-standings/18865/1 "2017-08-22T02:43:40Z")

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/search/ for type\_id

There is no way to find the type\_id for an item using the human readable name. I would need to use /universe/types/ to get 100s of thousands of type\_id’s then check each one individually using /universe/types/{type\_id} and compare the item name to determine the wanted type\_id. /search/ does what I want but there isn’t an option for items.

/markets/stations/{station\_id}

Right now the only way to get orders for a station is to do /markets/{region\_id}/orders/ then find all the orders with the desired station\_id. Could we get something like /markets/structures/{structure\_id}/ for stations?

standings

On ESI there is no way to get standings for a corporation or alliance. I only saw a way to get a specific character’s standings. Any plan to add standings for corps and alliances?

Thanks! I love the fact that you even have an API and the new Swagger interface is literally the best API site I’ve ever seen.

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**Author:** ![Althalus\_Stenory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/althalus_stenory/32/429792_2.png) [@Althalus\_Stenory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Althalus_Stenory)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/search-for-type-id-markets-stations-station-id-standings/18865/2 "2017-08-22T06:45:08Z")

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> [@Thanatos\_Molikroth](#):
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> There is no way to find the type\_id for an item using the human readable name.

You can, use the search endpoint with the name and inventoryType as search category:

```auto
curl -X GET "https://esi.tech.ccp.is/latest/search/?categories=inventorytype&datasource=tranquility&language=en-us&search=Tritanium&strict=true" -H "accept: application/json"

```

```json
{
  "inventorytype": [
    34
  ]
}

```

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> [@Thanatos\_Molikroth](#):
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> Could we get something like /markets/structures/{structure\_id}/ for stations

If there’s not yet an issue about that [here](https://github.com/ccpgames/esi-issues/issues), this is the right place to ask for it 🙂_(thought someone asked for it once, but can’t find the issue number…)_

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> [@Thanatos\_Molikroth](#):
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> Any plan to add standings for corps and alliances

As the primary goal for CCP is to have XML/CREST parity with ESI, there will be corp standings sooner or later. Alliance probably too.  
You can check what’s already done [here](https://github.com/ccpgames/esi-issues/blob/master/XML_to_ESI.md), there are github issues about missing features too (so if you find a feature not yet reported there, feel free to add it)

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**Author:** ![Thanatos\_Molikroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/thanatos_molikroth/32/15111_2.png) [@Thanatos\_Molikroth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Thanatos_Molikroth)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/search-for-type-id-markets-stations-station-id-standings/18865/3 "2017-08-22T20:07:55Z")

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Thanks! You are right, I thought inventorytype was something different because it was returning multiple numbers. I used strict=true and it’s working.

Thanks again!