EVEPrest 1.3.3

EVE CREST access tool

Summary

Prest is a Python library for accessing EVE Online’s CREST API.

Installation

From pip:

pip install eveprest

Use

Initialization

from prest import Prest

prest = Prest()

Attributes and calls

• Calling

• on prest.Prest: reload the base URL data

  • prest() -> the same prest.Prest

• on prest.APIElement: navigate to a new page

  • prest.foo() -> prest.APIElement

• Getting attribute by text or item by index

• from prest.Prest: return a data subset or navigate to a new page

  • prest.foo -> str, int, float, prest.APIElement of data subset, prest.APIElement to new page

• from prest.APIElement: return a data subset

  • prest.foo.bar -> str, int, float, prest.APIElement

To reduce typing, prest.Prset.__getattr__ combines the functionality of prest.APIElement.__getattr__ and prest.APIElement.__call__ so that calls can be made like prest.foo instead of prest().foo.

If you wanted to access the X position of the Kimoto constellation, the call would be:

prest.constellations().items.find(name='Kimotoro')().position.x

From the base url “constellations” is a root-level dictionary item with a “href” item, which can be called to navigate to that page.

From there, the .items attribute dives into the items dictionary key and then a find method is used to get an element from the list of dictionaries (you could loop through the items yourself, but find is for convenience). This dictionary has a “href” element, so call the attribute to navigate there.

Now on the final page, access the “position” key and finally its “x” key, which is -134996400468185440.

Examples

1. Market types -> page count

prest.marketTypes().pageCount

2. “Jump Through a Wormhole” opportunity description

prest.opportunities.tasks().items.find(name='Jump Through a Wormhole').description

3. Jita 4-4 moon name

prest.systems().items.find(name='Jita')().planets[3].moons[3]().name

Using the cache

When you make a call to prest.foo, the root CREST URL data stored locally will be checked for an expired cache timer (the root URL’s data is loaded when instantiating a new prest.Prest object, you don’t need to do it manually). If it’s expired, the root URL will be gotten anew and cached. This is similar for prest.foo().bar().baz() - if all of foo, bar, and baz were dictionaries with 'href' keys that pointed to new pages, each would use the cache to retrieve the page, only making a new request to CREST if the local copy of the page is either non-existent or expired.

However, when getting attributes from a page, like prest.foo().bar.baz, neither bar or baz on the page will be using the cache. Thus, in order to make the same call multiple times over a period of time and using the cache, either make the full prest.foo().bar.baz call again, or save the last-called element as a local variable and call that:

foo = prest.foo

print(foo().bar.baz)

# later:
print(foo().bar.baz)

# later:
print(foo().bar.baz)

Authentication

Accessing the authenticated parts of CREST is done through authenticating Prest:

from prest import *

prest = Prest(client_id='', client_secret='', client_callback='')
prest.get_authorize_url()
auth = prest.authenticate(code)

In the code above, get_authorize_url returns a URL to redirect a web app client to so they can log into EVE’s SSO. Once they’ve redirected back to your web application, pass the code in the returning URL from EVE to the authenticate call and assign the resulting prest.AuthPrest object.

This prest.AuthPrest object works the same as the unathenticated prest.Prest object: use attributes and calls to navigate and load CREST data, respectively.

Example of accessing a character’s location:

print(auth.decode().character().location())

Refresh tokens

When you authenticate for accessing CREST using a scope, Prest will get two tokens back: the access token, which is a temporary (20 minutes) token used for accessing CREST, and a refresh token that doesn’t expire but cannot be used to directly access CREST. When the access token expires, Prest will get another access token from CREST using the refresh token.

Since the refresh token doesn’t expire, you’ll want to keep that somewhere safe. Prest doesn’t handle this for you.

To start an authenticated session with Prest using a previously-fetched refresh token (you can get the existing refresh token with prest.AuthPrest.refresh_token as a str), do the following:

prest = Prest(client_id='', client_secret='', client_callback='')
auth = prest.use_refresh_token('previous-refresh-token')