API Methods - Item Price Information
Returns the "best guess" price of multiple items, if you just want the price for an item for a killboard, etc then this is the fastest way to get it.
How it's calculated: Take the average price of a simulated buy of 5% of the market. Updated daily at downtime.
If using region_ids: Keep in mind that regions with out-of-date or incomplete data (check the Reports page) may have wonky prices!
Parameters:
| char_name | required Your character name, so that I can contact you in case something goes wrong |
| buysell | required "s" for sell orders, "b" for buy orders, "a" for both |
| type_ids | Which type_id's to check |
| marketgroup_ids | Which marketgroup_id's to check |
| region_ids | Which region_id's to check (optional, default is Jita only) |
| solarsystem_ids | Which solarsystem_id's to check |
| station_ids | Which station_id's to check |
| minmax | Get the min or max values for an area. minmax=min, or minmax=max |
| callback | The JSONP callback function (optional, only needed for JSONP) |
a max of 10,000 rows will be returned
Return Values
(for .txt requests, this is the column order)| buysell | b or s |
| typeID | eve_inv_types.type_id |
| regionID | eve_map_regions.region_id |
| price | the price if 5% of the region's items for sale were bought |
| updated | date it was last updated, yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss |
Example URLs
Click through to each URL to see the return values.
- http://api.eve-marketdata.com/api/item_prices2.txt?char_name=demo&type_ids=34,12068®ion_ids=10000002&buysell=s - TXT format
- http://api.eve-marketdata.com/api/item_prices2.xml?char_name=demo&type_ids=34,12068®ion_ids=10000002&buysell=s - XML format
- http://api.eve-marketdata.com/api/item_prices2.json?char_name=demo&type_ids=34,12068®ion_ids=10000002&buysell=s - JSON format