EDDN VS FDevIDs

Data comes from all the players using the apps which submit data to the EDDN (Elite Dangerous Data Network), which does not store any of the data but streams it to various sites like EDDB who do store data and provide backups, see: https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN

If anyone is up to it, EDDB was pretty much a frontend/database for EDDN (which does not appear to be shut down). If you ever configured EDMC to send data to EDDB, it was basically send to that. EDDN to be clear doesn't store the data, it just makes it available for any interest party.

For more details see the EDDN github.

Have a look at https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN

The hardcore traders are monitoring the EDDN feed directly. They get alerts in Discord (or via text message) when commodities sell above thresholds they set. They're monitoring the background simulation (BGS), participating in coordinated market scouting efforts, and even manipulating the BGS to get desirable states like Boom or Public Holiday. They're supporting Powers that give influence or trade bonuses. They have fleet carriers that stockpile desirable commodities, and they're part of squadrons that can completely fulfill a station's demand anywhere in the Bubble in 15 minutes or less. If you want to get the best possible prices for your mined commodities, you need to raise your level of gameplay to match these players.

https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN/tree/live - EDDN is also data sharing

Depends on how many CMDRS are syncing their journals to EDDN: Elite Dangerous Data Network

Helping the community. There is a gigantic database called EDDN that gets data from many different sources to build the tools you've seen above and much more. It's a phenomenal community-based enterprise, and one of the reasons why I've fallen in love with this game (despite the Black Adders). Wanna contribute? The link above will guide you through. Basically download, install and configure one of the recommended apps and all necessary information will be sent to the database, for everyone to use.

If you're writing a tool that looks to send over EDDN then please be sure you read all the documentation (which I've recently spent time improving) -> https://github.com/EDCD/EDDN/tree/live .

Some small updates have been made in edmc_data as a part of reviewing the latest update to coriolis-data. We make no guarantee about keeping these parts of edmc_data up to date.Any plugins attempting to use that data should look at alternatives, such as FDevIDs/outfitting.csv.A future update might remove those maps, or at least fully deprecate their use by plugins. Please contact us now if you actually make use of this data.

We now include FDevIDS as a sub-repository, and use its files directly for keeping some game data up to date. This should hopefully mean we include, e.g. new ships and modules for loadout exports in a more timely manner. Developers of third-party plugins should never have been using these files anyway, so this shouldn't break anything for them.