Ardent API provides access to data submitted to Elite Dangerous Data Network
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The Ardent API powers ardent-industry.com
The API is considered stable and no breaking changes are anticipated, but expansion of parameters that be passed and enrichment of responses is planned.
The Ardent API provides access to data submitted to the Elite Dangerous Data Network and is stored by the Ardent Collector.
The API provides access to information for over 100,000,000 star systems and tracks millions of buy and sell orders for trade commodities sold in stations, ports and on carriers throughout the galaxy.
The Ardent API provides access to the data and automatically generated trade reports via a REST API via a global Content Distribution Network.
The folllowing is a summary of supported API endpoints and a description of the behaviour and options supported.
Notes:
The fleetCarriers
boolean option supported on some of the endpoints is null
by default. If set to true
or 1
the response will only include results for
fleet carriers, if set to false
or 0
the response will exclude results for
fleet carriers. If not specified, or set to any other value, the response will
include results for all stations (including from, but not limited to, fleet
carriers).
The maxDistance
option is light years (ly
) and is used to filter results
from other systems based on the distance of that systems main star from the
main star of the system the result is relative to. You cannot specify a
fractional value in light seconds (ls
) to filter results within a system;
although the approximate distance to the main star for each station is
displayed (when known) it is not taken into account.
As of API version 3.0.0
the commodity import
and export
endpoints
support a maxDaysAgo
option that defaults to 90
days. This filters out data
older than 90 days from results by default, which makes results more relevant
and improves response times. You can still request to include older data by
explicitly specifying a greater value. Records are updated when newer
information is submitted, but older entries never expire.
Get Ardent API software version.
Get statistics for the current databases (updated every 15 minutes).
Star systems: 102,694,411
Trade systems: 16,419
Trade stations: 42,695
Trade carriers: 5,360
Trade orders: 10,773,236
Trade updates in last 24 hours: 563,215
Trade updates in last 7 days: 2,475,140
Trade updates in last 30 days: 7,234,476
Trade reports have analysis and details about bulk commodities being traded in systems in and around the Core Systems (aka The Bubble) and near Colonia.
The 'Core Systems 1000' and the 'Colonia Systems 1000' reports intentionally exclude market data from Fleet Carriers to avoid skewing the summaries with volitile data. The reports only include trade orders where supply or demand for a given commodity is at least 1000T.
The Commodities report includes all known traded commodities, their price ranges (min/max/avg) and the total supply and demand for each commodity.
The commodity report intentionally excludes market data from Fleet Carriers to avoid skewing reports with unreliable data.
[ ... {
"commodityName": "gold",
"maxBuyPrice": 59797,
"minBuyPrice": 3979,
"avgBuyPrice": 44441,
"totalStock": 73016533,
"maxSellPrice": 70761,
"minSellPrice": 3978,
"avgSellPrice": 48259,
"totalDemand": 1899662825
} ... ]
Get summary report for a commodity.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/gold
Get a list of places importing a commodity - places you can sell you - ordered by the highest price they are willing to pay. Returns best 100 matching results.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/gold/imports
Get a list of exports of a commodity - places where you can buy from - ordered by the lowest price you can buy it for. Returns best 100 matching results.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/gold/exports
Ardent Trade Reports for a commodity are updated daily and list recommended places to buy and sell commodities from, based on price, supply and location.
The 'Core Systems 1000' and the 'Colonia Systems 1000' reports intentionally exclude market data from Fleet Carriers to avoid skewing the summaries with volitile data. The reports only include trade orders where supply or demand for a given commodity is at least 1000T.
e.g.
Get information about a system.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol
Returns a list of up to 1000 nearby systems, ordered by distance.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/nearby
Returns a list of all known trade orders in a system.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/commodities
Returns a list of all known commodities imported by a system - places where you can sell to - ordered by name of the commodity.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/commodities/imports
Returns a list of all known commodities exported by a system - places where you can buy from - ordered by name of the commodity.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/commodities/exports
Get all buy/sell orders for a commodity in a system.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/commodity/name/gold
Get a list of nearby places that importing a commodity close to the specified system. Returns the first 1000 results, ordered by the highest price they are willing to pay.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/commodity/name/gold/nearby/imports
Get a list of nearby places that importing a commodity close to the specified system. Returns the first 1000 results, ordered by the lowest price you can buy it for.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/system/name/Sol/commodity/name/gold/nearby/exports
Get information about commodity for a specific market.
This was added to support providing information about rare goods, which are typically only avalible from a single known market
Support for additional queries by market ID may be added in future.
e.g. https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/market/128106744/commodity/name/lavianbrandy
This software would not be possible without work from dozens of enthusiasts and hundreds of open source contributors.
Special thanks to Elite Dangerous Community Developers members, Elite Dangerous Data Network maintainers, Anthor (Elite Dangerous Star Map) and Gareth Harper (Spansh).
Thank you to all those who have created and supported libraries on which this software depends and to Frontier Developments plc for supporting third party tools.
Copyright Iain Collins, 2024.
This software has been released under the GNU Affero General Public License.
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