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 do 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.

This Pre-Release continues to add more support for Odyssey, certainly reducing errors in the application when running against Odyssey. It also contains some bugfixes (which will be backported into a release version soon).

Pre-Release 5.0.0-beta5

• Ship Type/Name will now be greyed out, and not clickable, if we don't currently have loadout information for it. This prevents trying to send an empty loadout to your shipyard provider.

• Sanity check a returned Frontier Authentication token to be sure it's for the current Commander. If it's not you'll see Error: customer_id doesn't match! on the bottom status line. Double-check you're using the correct credentials when authing!

• Bug fixed when handling CAPI-sourced shipyard information. This wouldcurrently only have shown up on live for Fleet Carriers due to a Frontier bug with not returning shipyard data at all for normal stations.
  It has been observed that Frontier has fixed this bug for Odyssey.

• Don't try to get Ship information from LoadGame event if directly in CQC.

• A lot of general code cleanup relating to: Inara, outfitting, Frontier CAPI, hotkey (manual Updates), dashboard (Status.json monitoring), commodities files, ED format ship loadout files.

• Inara: Don't attempt to send an empty setCommanderReputationMajorFaction API call. This quietens an error from the Inara API caused when a Cmdr literally has no Major Faction Reputation yet.

Plugin Developers

• Initial support for new Odyssey "MicroResources" (Data, Item, Component and Consumable) in the "Ship Locker" and "BackPack". NB: Currently the ShipLockerMaterials
  event omits a Data array, so we can't properly track those.
  See the updated PLUGINS.md for details about this in the state dictionary.