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:
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The
fleetCarriersboolean option supported on some of the endpoints isnullby default. If set totrueor1the response will only include results for fleet carriers, if set tofalseor0the 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
maxDistanceoption 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
3.0.0the commodityimportandexportendpoints support amaxDaysAgooption that defaults to90days. 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.
- https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodities/core-systems-1000
- https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodities/colonia-systems-1000
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
- minVolume (int); default 1
- minPrice (int); default 1
- fleetCarriers (bool); default null
- maxDaysAgo (int); default 90
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
- minVolume (int); default 1
- maxPrice (int); default null
- fleetCarriers (bool); default null
- maxDaysAgo (int); default 90
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.
- https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/{commodityName}/core-systems-1000
- https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/{commodityName}/colonia-systems-1000
e.g.
- https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/gold/core-systems-1000
- https://api.ardent-industry.com/v1/commodity/name/gold/colonia-systems-1000
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
- maxDistance (int); default 100, max 500
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
- minVolume (int); default 1
- minPrice (int); default 1
- fleetCarriers (bool); default null
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
- minVolume (int); default 1
- maxPrice (int); default null
- fleetCarriers (bool); default null
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
- minVolume (int); default 1
- minPrice (int); default 1
- fleetCarriers (bool); default null
- maxDistance (int); default 100, max 500
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
- minVolume (int); default 1
- maxPrice (int); default null
- fleetCarriers (bool); default null
- maxDistance (int); default 100, max 500
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.
Elite Dangerous is copyright Frontier Developments plc. This software is not endorsed by nor reflects the views or opinions of Frontier Developments and no employee of Frontier Developments was involved in the making of it.