Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-129.97.67.68-20130506164431/@comment-9196940-20130507134526

I am gathering data using the api call to view the alliance. This is normally done when you go to your alliance page and click on the last attacker and select "Alliance info". The real trick with the EW api is that you have to have an active session with the individual sector to make the api calls. So now I have an account in every active sector that I have to activate before making the data request. I haven't figured out a way around this which is why I can't display real time data.

I am hoping that more mergers happen so that there is less data to download.

You are right that the player needs to be in an alliance and I am only taking the top 40 or so alliances from each sector. This is effective in older sectors but may not be great in some of the new sectors. Time will tell.