What Is Elite Dangerous Market Connector?

Elite Dangerous Market Connector ("EDMC") is a third-party application for use with Frontier Developments' game "Elite Dangerous". Its purpose is to facilitate supplying certain game data to, and in some cases retrieving it from, a number of websites and other tools.

To achieve this it utilises the Journal Files written by the game when played on a PC. It also makes use of Frontier's Companion API ("Frontier's CAPI"), accessible once you've authorised this application.

EDMC has a plugin system which many other developers have made use of to extend its functionality.

Find out more on the EDMC Wiki.

NB: This application is of no use with a Console game account. We now test against, and package with Python 3.10.x. As a consequence of this we no longer support Windows 7, due to Python 3.10.x itself not supporting Windows 7.

As has become routine now, various anti-virus software are reporting a false positive on our installer and/or files it contains. I've pre-emptively uploaded the installer to VirusTotal if you want to check what it's saying. Please see our Troubleshooting/AV-false-positives FAQ for further information.

Release 5.4.0-beta0 (VirusTotal)​

• We now test against, and package with, Python 3.10.4.
• New EDDN schema fssbodysignals is now supported.
• Odyssey Update 12 will add BodyID to CodexEntry journal events, so don't overwrite this with an augmentation if it is already present. We've also added the same for BodyName in case Frontier ever add that.
• Translations updated. Thanks again to all the contributors.

Bug Fixes​

• Cross-check the MarketID in CAPI data, not only the station name, to ensure the data is for the correct station. Closes #1572.
• Location cross-check paranoia added to several EDDN message types to ensure no bad data is sent.
• Ensure we don't send bad BodyID/Name for an orbital station if the player uses a taxi. Closes #1522.

Developers​

• Odyssey Update 12 adds a new Journal event, and file, FCMaterials.json, detailing the available trades at a Fleet Carrier's bar tender. Support has been added for this. Plugin developers are sent an FCMaterials event with the full contents of the file.

EDMC.exe​

This now uses specific exit codes in all cases, rather than a generic EXIT_SYS_ERR (6) for some cases. See the appropriate line in EDMC.py for details.