Discussion EliteBGS

[Garud]

Hello CMDRs,

I have just completed working on providing API's to all the ingame data present online. As such I have completed 3 projects:

1. EDDB API

Currently EDDB is the greatest treasure of information of the galaxy and it is a user friendly tool for many pilots. But it lacks an API for developers. EDDB API is an attempt to fill this gap by providing an API for EDDB data sources.​

2. EliteBGS API

For ultimate immersion and BGS control, we require not only the latest data but also historical ones. ELITE BGS API is a step in that direction. It stores information which changes regularly in a historical format. Thus, one can always look up the events that led to the current Civil War for instance.​

3. BGSBot

A Discord Bot to track the BGS of your chosen faction and systems
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The EDDB API and EliteBGS API repos are https://github.com/SayakMukhopadhyay/elitebgs
The BGSBot repo is https://github.com/SayakMukhopadhyay/bgsbot

All the tools are hosted. You just need to use them as a service. Hope this work proves helpful for others.

 

[amcb10]

As a bit of an idiot I dont really know what I am supposed to do with this?

 

[Mokel DeLorean [GPL]]

If you are not a software developer probably: nothing

Unfortunately this is not for me either because due to the lack of an API I have set up my own infrastructure which I feed from the nightly dumps...

Question though, the BGSBot relies on the EDDN data from EDMarketConnector, EDDiscovery etc, right? So if no one with these tools visits your 1000 population brown dwarf mini-system, then no data will be available, right?

 

[Garud]

Unfortunately this is not for me either because due to the lack of an API I have set up my own infrastructure which I feed from the nightly dumps...

Exactly the reason I decided to make a public hosted API. I have seen too many developers creating their own infrastructure.

Question though, the BGSBot relies on the EDDN data from EDMarketConnector, EDDiscovery etc, right? So if no one with these tools visits your 1000 population brown dwarf mini-system, then no data will be available, right?

Correct. Unfortunately there is no way of getting in game data without uploading the journal files. One can create services to upload directly to the server but EDDN provides nice centralization of all this data. Similarly, the BGSBot will show outdated data if nobody has uploaded for a particular system, like EDDB itself.

 

[Alex Ringess]

If you are not a software developer probably: nothing

Unfortunately this is not for me either because due to the lack of an API I have set up my own infrastructure which I feed from the nightly dumps...

Question though, the BGSBot relies on the EDDN data from EDMarketConnector, EDDiscovery etc, right? So if no one with these tools visits your 1000 population brown dwarf mini-system, then no data will be available, right?

I used a google sheet that pull data from EDDN, for an area of 2kly radius around Sol.
I tryed to go far but Google updated non stop the sheet and it didn't show the data ^^
Anyway, during this test, I was able to watch that there is a lot of data pushed by EDDN. So it seems that there is a lot of ppl using EDMarketConnector, EDDiscovery, etc.
And if you wanted to get the data from a particular system, you'd simply have to go there with EDMarketConnector running and you'd push the data thru EDDN. Simple ^^

 

[Alex Ringess]

Hello CMDRs,

I have just completed working on providing API's to all the ingame data present online. As such I have completed 3 projects:

1. EDDB API

Currently EDDB is the greatest treasure of information of the galaxy and it is a user friendly tool for many pilots. But it lacks an API for developers. EDDB API is an attempt to fill this gap by providing an API for EDDB data sources.​

2. EliteBGS API

For ultimate immersion and BGS control, we require not only the latest data but also historical ones. ELITE BGS API is a step in that direction. It stores information which changes regularly in a historical format. Thus, one can always look up the events that led to the current Civil War for instance.​

3. BGSBot

A Discord Bot to track the BGS of your chosen faction and systems
​

The EDDB API and EliteBGS API repos are https://github.com/SayakMukhopadhyay/elitebgs
The BGSBot repo is https://github.com/SayakMukhopadhyay/bgsbot

All the tools are hosted. You just need to use them as a service. Hope this work proves helpful for others.

Thank you for providing us that kind of tool.

Just as a reminder (I guess you guys knows that), EDDN will move to another server the 9th of august (in 5 days from today).
The push and pull URL your server-side script use to provide your API will need an update.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Dangerous-Data-Network?p=5685266#post5685266

 

[hangfireflip]

Hi Garud,

I have been looking at the EliteBGS website.

I have set up some reports on the site to track certain systems. On those reports the chart shows current, pending and recvoering states and I notice that they are coloured. What is the significance of the colours?

Cheers