Data Handling

This skill communicates exclusively with the official EVE Online ESI API (esi.evetech.net) and EVE SSO (login.eveonline.com). No character data is exfiltrated to third-party servers. Optional integrations (Telegram, Discord) are user-configured via environment variables and only transmit alerts defined by the user.

EVE Online ESI

The ESI (EVE Swagger Interface) is the official REST API for EVE Online third-party development.

• Base URL: https://esi.evetech.net/latest
• Spec: https://esi.evetech.net/latest/swagger.json
• API Explorer: https://developers.eveonline.com/api-explorer

Skill Location

All scripts live at: ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/eve-esi/scripts/

Always use full paths when calling scripts:

SKILL=~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/eve-esi

Authentication

Tokens are stored in ~/.openclaw/eve-tokens.json (created by auth_flow.py, chmod 600). All scripts (get_token.py, esi_query.py) read from this file directly — no env vars are required for normal operation.

First-time setup (once per character):

# 1. Set up SSH tunnel on your local PC:
#    ssh -L 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 user@your-server -N
# 2. Run auth flow on server (pass Client ID directly):
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/eve-esi/scripts/auth_flow.py --client-id <YOUR_CLIENT_ID> --char-name main
# 3. Open the shown URL in browser, log in with EVE account

Get a fresh access token (tokens expire after ~20min, refresh is automatic):

TOKEN=$(python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/eve-esi/scripts/get_token.py --char main)

List authenticated characters:

python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/eve-esi/scripts/get_token.py --list

For full OAuth2/PKCE details: see references/authentication.md.

Public endpoints (no auth)

# Character public info
curl -s "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/2114794365/" | python -m json.tool

# Portrait URLs
curl -s "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/2114794365/portrait/"

# Corporation history
curl -s "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/2114794365/corporationhistory/"

# Bulk affiliation lookup
curl -s -X POST "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/affiliation/" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[2114794365, 95538921]'

Character info (authenticated)

TOKEN="<your_access_token>"
CHAR_ID="<your_character_id>"

# Online status (scope: esi-location.read_online.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/online/"

Wallet

# Balance (scope: esi-wallet.read_character_wallet.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/wallet/"

# Journal (paginated)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/wallet/journal/?page=1"

# Transactions
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/wallet/transactions/"

Assets

# All assets (paginated; scope: esi-assets.read_assets.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/assets/?page=1"

# Resolve item locations
curl -s -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[1234567890, 9876543210]' \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/assets/locations/"

# Resolve item names
curl -s -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[1234567890]' \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/assets/names/"

Skills

# All trained skills + total SP (scope: esi-skills.read_skills.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/skills/"

# Skill queue (scope: esi-skills.read_skillqueue.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/skillqueue/"

# Attributes (intelligence, memory, etc.)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/attributes/"

Location and ship

# Current location (scope: esi-location.read_location.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/location/"

# Current ship (scope: esi-location.read_ship_type.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/ship/"

Clones and implants

# Jump clones + home station (scope: esi-clones.read_clones.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/clones/"

# Active implants (scope: esi-clones.read_implants.v1)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/characters/$CHAR_ID/implants/"

More endpoints

For contracts, fittings, mail, industry, killmails, market orders, mining, planetary interaction, loyalty points, notifications, blueprints, standings, and all other character endpoints, see references/endpoints.md.

Dashboard Config

The skill supports a modular dashboard config for alerts, reports, and market tracking. Each user defines what they need in a JSON config file.

• Schema: config/schema.json — full JSON Schema with all fields, types, and defaults
• Example: config/example-config.json — ready-to-use template

Features

Security

Tokens should not be stored in plain text. Use environment variable references:

{
  "token": "$ENV:EVE_TOKEN_MAIN",
  "refresh_token": "$ENV:EVE_REFRESH_MAIN"
}

The config file should live outside the workspace (e.g. ~/.openclaw/eve-dashboard-config.json).

Validate a config

python scripts/validate_config.py path/to/config.json

# Show example config
python scripts/validate_config.py --example

# Show JSON schema
python scripts/validate_config.py --schema

Using the query script

SKILL=~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/eve-esi
TOKEN=$(python3 $SKILL/scripts/get_token.py --char main)
CHAR_ID=$(python3 $SKILL/scripts/get_token.py --char main --json | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin))" 2>/dev/null)

# Simple query
python3 $SKILL/scripts/esi_query.py --token "$TOKEN" --endpoint "/characters/$CHAR_ID/wallet/" --pretty

# Fetch all pages of assets
python3 $SKILL/scripts/esi_query.py --token "$TOKEN" --endpoint "/characters/$CHAR_ID/assets/" --pages --pretty

# POST request (e.g. asset names)
python3 $SKILL/scripts/esi_query.py --token "$TOKEN" --endpoint "/characters/$CHAR_ID/assets/names/" \
  --method POST --body '[1234567890]' --pretty

Best practices

• Caching: respect the Expires header; do not poll before it expires.
• Error limits: monitor X-ESI-Error-Limit-Remain; back off when low.
• User-Agent: always set a descriptive User-Agent with contact info.
• Rate limits: some endpoints (mail, contracts) have internal rate limits returning HTTP 520.
• Pagination: check the X-Pages response header; iterate with ?page=N.
• Versioning: use /latest/ for current stable routes. /dev/ may change without notice.

Resolving type IDs

ESI returns numeric type IDs (e.g. for ships, items, skills). Resolve names via:

# Single type
curl -s "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/types/587/"

# Bulk names (up to 1000 IDs)
curl -s -X POST "https://esi.evetech.net/latest/universe/names/" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[587, 638, 11393]'