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Elite: Dangerous Market Connector (EDMC)

This application downloads your Cmdr's details and system, faction, scan and station data from the game Elite: Dangerous and, at your choice, either:

sends station commodity market prices, other station data, system and faction information and body scan data to the Elite Dangerous Data Network (“EDDN”) from where you and others can use it via online trading, prospecting and shopping tools such as eddb, EDSM, Elite Trade Net, Inara, Roguey's, Trade Dangerous, etc.
sends your Cmdr's details, ship details, cargo, materials and flight log to Elite: Dangerous Star Map.
sends your Cmdr's details, ship details, cargo, materials, missions, community goal progress, and flight log to Inara.
saves station commodity market prices to files on your computer that you can load into trading tools such as Trade Dangerous or mEDI's Elite Tools.
saves a record of your ship loadout to files on your computer that you can load into outfitting tools such as E:D Shipyard, Coriolis or Elite Trade Net.

Supported Platforms

The primary platform for this application is Windows 10 (any version currently supported by Microsoft). It will probably also function on the following, but no testing is done on them: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1.

MacOS and Linux, and possible other platforms able to run a Python 3 program, are supported by running from source.

You can run the application on the same PC on which you're running Elite Dangerous or on another PC connected via a network share.

PS4 and Xbox are not supported.

Usage

Start the application before entering the game to ensure that you don't miss any data.

Caveat on starting EDMC first

However, if your most recent game session didn't include you logging all the way into the game then:

No 'Cmdr' name will be displayed - the application doesn't yet know this. EDMC has multi-account/commander support, and doesn't assume it should use the last Commander.
No 'Ship' name will be displayed.
No 'System' name will be displayed.
No 'Station' name will displayed.
You might not be able to click the 'Update' button.

This can also be caused by a corrupt or incomplete most recent Journal file.

If the 'Update' button is clickable then using it will fetch the latest data from the Frontier CAPI and the fields mentioned above should be filled in.

See Troubleshooting - Credentials settings are greyed out

The user-interface is deliberately minimal - your choice of data is automatically downloaded, transmitted and/or saved when you start Elite: Dangerous, land at a station, jump to a system or scan a body.

Ship Name

Click on the ship name to view its loadout on your chosen 'Shipyard' provider (E:D Shipyard (“EDSY”) or Coriolis) in your web browser.

Change which provider you use on 'File' > 'Settings' > 'Configuration' (tab) > 'Preferred websites' > 'Shipyard'.

System name

Click on the system name to view its entry in Elite: Dangerous Database (“eddb”), Elite Dangerous Star Map (“EDSM”) or Inara in your web browser.

Change which provider you use on 'File' > 'Settings' > 'Configuration' (tab) > 'Preferred websites' > 'System'.
If your selected provider doesn't yet have data for the system in question then mouse-over will show a 'stop sign' icon.
Whether you use EDSM as the provider or not you might see an extra image at the end of the System name:
1. <Green Circle> - This system is known to EDSM, including co-ordinates.
2. <Red Circle> - This system is not known to EDSM.
3. <Yellow Star> - You were the first to report this system to EDSM.
4. <?> - An error occurred checking the status of the system on EDSM.

Station name

Click on the station name to view its entry in eddb, EDSM or Inara in your web browser.

Change which provider you use on 'File' > 'Settings' > 'Configuration' (tab) > 'Preferred websites' > 'Station'.
This only works whilst docked. You might see an × character as the name sometimes when not docked. This means the application has determined that you are in a populated system and clicking this × will open the system page so you can see a listing of stations in the current system.
Similarly to the 'System' name, this might not be clickable if your chosen 'Station' provider doesn't have data for the station in question. You'll see the 'stop sign' icon on mouseover if this is the case.

Update button

This button will not be available until Frontier Authentication is completed for the currently active Commander.

Remember, the application will automatically respond to game data so as to update and/or send it as needed. Under normal circumstances you won't ever need to press this button.

But if, for instance, you've been docked in a station for 15 minutes and want to ensure that EDDB etc have the latest commodities information then you can press the 'Update' button to trigger this.

There is an enforced cooldown on how often you can do this so as to not over-tax the Frontier CAPI service. The text 'Update' will change to 'cooldown XXs' during this cooldown.

Plugins might have their own internal cooldowns or queues which cause pressing this button to not necessarily send/update data, immediately or at all.