An update on things regarding the Tripwire project (the code), as well as the public servers (tripwire.eve-apps.com) and support for both.
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The servers are funded for at least 3 months now and monthly donations are enough to continue to fully fund. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! Tripwire is a huge part of my life and I feel one of my greatest accomplishments, It is all thanks to the help, support, and encouragement from this wonderful community.
First the public servers; the covid-19 outbreak has affected most of us in various ways, understandably I expected donations which fund the servers for the website to drop. Yesterday that finally hit full force with nearly all donations stopping. I completely understand and do not expect anyone to donate - I myself have pulled Twitch subscriptions and game service subscriptions to cut costs. But without donations the costs must come from me which even I have limits to how much I can support.
The details are this; the servers cost about $60/month for 5 Digital Ocean droplets that are already the minimum - all but the database server are $5/month servers. Next we have SSL certs, domain names, etc which come out to around $40/month. So all said and done $100/month completely covers all expenses the website requires. Now some people donate monthly and others donate in chunks - either is fine and extra go into a reserve used to keep things going when monthly donations drop.
How to donate; first please do not feel you need to donate. Also It is OK to donate money via Paypal and Patreon, links are at the bottom of the Tripwire website. If you feel you want to donate but money is not an option then some of your time is also excellent in the forms of providing support to others in this forum thread and in the Tripwire Discord, providing code improvements and fixes via the open source project, and many more ways.
What happens when donations are not enough? If that happens again, like it did yesterday, I will send out communication via this forum thread as well as Discord that let everyone know that I will be shutting down the servers the following month. Since Tripwire is an open source project, anyone can host their own copy, there are also services out there that can host it for you (link below). If you choose to leave or the servers shutdown you can still get some of your data via an API which I will talk about next.
To use the Tripwrie API here is some basic steps and info, for additional help I recommend the Tripwire Discord because there are people there who know how to use it and do. First you need to know your Tripwire user account name and account password, you can set them both to whatever you like once you login to Tripwire and go into Options and under the account section are 2 buttons to change them. Next you need your maskID - this is a decimal number used to identify what mask you want data from. You can get this a few ways but the easiest is to go into the Tripwire Options and right-click inspect the mask images and look for a “value” attribute, it should be something like 123.0 - don’t worry the maskID is not a security risk so don’t be afraid to give it out. Then use the following URLs replacing maskID and using your Tripwire account username and password (not your EVE account).
https://galileo.eve-apps.com/api/comments?maskID=1.0
https://galileo.eve-apps.com/api/signatures?maskID=1.0
https://galileo.eve-apps.com/api/wormholes?maskID=1.0
You can also pass a systemID query parameter for results for just a system, note this is the EVE systemID not the system name, ie Jita would be 30000142. Note there are only GET end-points currently.
As for the open source project, I hope it will never die. It costs no money, and as long as EVE is around I hope Tripwire will be. Please help me keep it going by assisting any way you can. This can be improvements via code, helping answer questions/support, and even just spreading word of it as an option to fellow pilots.