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 5.5.0

Download and run the EDMarketConnector_win_5.5.0.msi linked on that page, below the changelog, to install.

• Virus Total scan results for this release.
• We now test against, and package with, Python 3.10.7.
• EDDN: Support added for the FCMaterials schemas to aid third-party sites in offering searches for where to buy and sell Odyssey Micro Resources, including on Fleet Carriers with the bar tender facility.

Bug Fixes

• EDDN: Abort fsssignaldiscovered sending of message if no signals passed the checks.
• EDDN: Add Horizons check for location on fsssignaldiscovered messages.
• Don't alert the user if the first attempted load of NavRoute.json contains no route.
• Inara: Don't set marketID for ApproachSettlement unless it's actually present in the event.

Plugin Developers

• We now build using the new, setuptools mediated py2exe freeze() method, so we're in the clear for when distutils is removed in Python 3.12.
  This shouldn't have any adverse effects on plugins, i.e. all of the same Python modules are still packaged as before.
• Support has been added for the NavRouteClear event.  We do send this through to plugins, so that they know the player has cleared the route, but we keep the previously plotted route details in state['NavRoute'].
• The documentation of the return type of journal_entry() has been corrected to Optional[str].
• FDevIDs files (commodity.csv rare_commodity.csv) updated to latest versions.

Developers

• We now build using the new, setuptools mediated py2exe freeze() method, so we're in the clear for when distutils is removed in Python 3.12.
• The old setup.py file, along with associated py2exe.cmd have been removed in favour of the new Build-exe-and-msi.py file.  Documentation updated.