I have been trying to collect info on blackmarket prices for smuggling. Unfortunately it is tedious, painful and never-ending. Blackmarkets come-and go so that info would be good to know and be sent via EDDN - also for any given blackmarket the prohibited items may come and go - mostly there are between 1-9 prohibited items that could be sold at blackmarkets (see the station info in System View).
I believe it would be extremely useful and very lucrative if we crowdsourced blackmarket data for smuggling. I would like to see:
* EDDN schema for blackmarkets
* Whether a station currently has a blackmarket (boolean)
* What items are prohibited at the station
* What the blackmarket sell price for each item is (if known)
* An API tool that gets the above info and sends it to EDDN.
Blackmarket prices tend to be tricky to get. They are obviously not publicised anywhere in-game. I'm not sure there will be an API URL that could be used to collect the prices. You only know how much the price will be when you visit a blackmarket AND you are carrying an offending item in your cargo. So, I have just been carrying around a couple of the offending items and visiting stations. I'm talking about items that are purchased LEGALLY from a market and then brought to a blackmarket where they are prohibited (Illegal). I am not talking about items that have been acquired illegally (stolen) - those also have a price on the blackmarket but might be too much to track. Just for the moment I want to track the prohibited items at a station.
Has anyone been working on this or even looked into it?