Making Requests Via The CLI¶

To make a single request, you might run

eve-link run --from ./status.request.json

This results in

{"players": 25236, "server_version": "3435006", "start_time": "2026-07-15T11:03:27Z"}

Because no schema was specified, the most recent cached schema was used. You should update the cached schemas when new ones come available.

You can also pipe the request json into the command

cat ./status.request.json | eve-link run

This can be useful when integrating with other scripts.

output can also be saved to a file, or piped

cat ./status.request.json | eve-link run --to ./status-response.json
# or
cat ./status.request.json | eve-link run | foo-do-something

For a single EsiRequest, the --debug flag will output the complete EsiResonse|FailedEsiResponse object

eve-link run --from ./status.request.json --debug --indent 2

EsiRequestGroup operates the same way, except that the output is always the complete EsiResponseGroup object. The expectation is, that group requests will normally be post processed by the user, so no assumptions are made about desired output format.

An example EsiRequestGroup

eve-link run-group --from ./languages.request-group.json --indent 2