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id: django-eveonline-sde
version: "0.0.2"
license: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license… (full text in the JSON record)
license_treatment: copyleft
maintenance: active
---

# django-eveonline-sde — Eve Online SDE Export in Django Model form

License: copyleft · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 269.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

django-eveonline-sde is a Django app that imports EVE Online's Static Data Export into your database as Django models. It covers game geography (regions, constellations, solar systems, planets, moons, stargates), item catalogs (types, groups, categories, market groups), manufacturing blueprints with their materials and products, dogma attributes and effects, and freelance job schemas. The package includes a management command to perform the initial load and sets up periodic background tasks via celery to check for SDE updates, which typically occur after EVE's daily downtime.

The app is designed as a standalone Django plugin but integrates opportunistically with AllianceAuth when present, falling back gracefully when it isn't. All SDE models are registered in Django admin as read-only for browsing and searching. The import process is configurable via settings for batch size, memory usage, and task splitting, and uses Redis-backed task locking to prevent concurrent update runs.

Use it for:

- Build an EVE Online companion app that needs to reference canonical game data without maintaining your own copy
- Create a market analysis or trading tool that queries item types, categories, and manufacturing chains
- Develop an alliance management dashboard that displays sovereignty upgrades, NPC stations, and regional data
- Implement a blueprint calculator or industry planner by querying blueprints, materials, and products
- Set up a freelance job board that uses job schemas and validates character, corporation, and alliance parameters

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides Django models for EVE Online's Static Data Export, importing game universe data like regions, solar systems, item types, and blueprints into your database with automatic periodic updates.

Yes, if you are building a Django app for the EVE Online community and need authoritative game universe data. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and handles periodic updates automatically. The GPLv3 license is a hard constraint if you need proprietary distribution. Requires Redis and celery infrastructure, so factor that into your deployment. No known security vulnerabilities.

## Install

pip install django-eveonline-sde
uv add django-eveonline-sde
poetry add django-eveonline-sde

## Installing django-eveonline-sde

Before you install: Low friction install with a pure-Python wheel. Maintenance is active with recent commits. Requires Redis for task locking and depends on celery for background SDE update checks.

License in practice: GPLv3 copyleft license requires that any derivative work or distribution must also be licensed under GPLv3 and include source code. Acceptable for internal use and open-source projects, but incompatible with proprietary software.

Quickstart:

pip install django-eveonline-sde

# In settings.py, add modeltranslation first:
INSTALLED_APPS = ["modeltranslation"] + INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS += ["django-eveonline-sde"]

# Then migrate and load:
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py esde_load_sde

Requires Redis running for celery-once task locking. Django 4.2+ and Python 3.10–3.14 required.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the SDE data import handles partial or incremental updates, or requires full reimport on each check
- Performance characteristics when importing large SDE datasets into production databases
- Whether the admin interface supports filtering and search across all imported model types

## Package facts

- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license… (full text in the JSON record) (copyleft)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 269.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

eve online sde django models, eve online game data django, eve universe database models, eve online static data export, eve online django integration, eve-online, game-data, django-plugin

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