Snapshot CSVs
The snapshot CSVs are designed for programs that make use of the item XML API for large numbers of items (killboards, asset managers, etc). This allows these applications to make one request and get a complete snapshot of the market in terms of buy/sell metrics. The data in these dumps is actually generated by using the item XML API, and is thus exactly the same data.
Retrieval
Dumps are stored at http://export.eve-metrics.com/snapshot/
Two versions of the dump are available- full and basic. Basic contains buy/sell minimum, maximum, average and median. Full contains all fields from the XML API. Most apps will just need basic.
The full filename is always YYYY-MM-DD.csv[.bz2]. For example, today's snapshot would be located at 2010-07-31.csv.bz2 (the .bz2 part may be dropped for an uncompressed dump for apps that cannot handle decompression).
The basic filename is always YYYY-MM-DD-basic.csv[.bz2], so today's dump would be at 2010-07-31-basic.csv.bz2
A magic filename is 'latest[-basic].csv[.bz2]' which is a symlink to the most recent file.
Examples
- Uncompressed dump for today
- Compressed dump for today
- Uncompressed basic dump for today
- Compressed basic dump for today
- Latest compressed dump
- Latest uncompressed dump
- Latest compressed basic dump
- Latest uncompressed basic dump
Formatting
All full dumps are CSV files with the following columns:
- type_id
- buy_min
- buy_max
- buy_med
- buy_avg
- buy_kurtosis
- buy_skew
- buy_variance
- buy_sd
- sell_min
- sell_max
- sell_med
- sell_avg
- sell_kurtosis
- sell_skew
- sell_variance
- sell_sd
Basic dumps contain the following columns:
- type_id
- buy_min
- buy_max
- buy_med
- buy_avg
- sell_min
- sell_max
- sell_med
- sell_avg
Line endings are \n, seperator is a comma.