Logos and Character Portraits

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You want yourself (your EVE Character) smiling at the visitors of your web application? You want to display alliances logos not only in a dumb list but their shiny logos? Look at ways how to get them in an automated manner ...

[edit] Character Portraits

You can fetch Character Portraits from CCP's image server, that's also used to provide this images on the EVE-O Website. You can get a portrait by fetching

http://img.eve.is/serv.asp?s=<size>&c=<charID>

whereas <size> has to be replaced with either '64' (64x64) or '256' (256x256) and the <charID> with the ID of the Character you want the portrait for. Other resolutions aren't supported.

[edit] Alliance Logos

In the the latest Database Dump from CCP the Alliance Logos were included, so you can import them to your application and use them. As alliance logos only change with content updates of EVE (aka patches), as long as CCP releases updated Dumps, you're fine with this.

Another way to get the Alliance Logos at the moment is to crawl through the EVE-O Alliance Pages. The logos itself are labeled in some kind of strange way (icon##_##.png), so you have to do a bit of regex magic on the site. Be gentle and don't fetch them on daily basis, remember they only change after content updates. And beware that even the alliance pages aren't updated automatically (as you could suggest when you look at their footers).

<Neko>	last update on: 2007.07.26 12:00, pages generated daily 
<Garthagk> Neko: daily = "whenever I get around to it" = monthly on average. I haven't automated it yet.