Discussion Question to the api experts: Mission commodities/materials and giver faction/system data

[Viajero]

*Mod hat off

As I am progressing my missions and Engineer activity I am starting to recognize some patterns with regards to which types of missions offer which key commodities. Next thing I would like to do is also trying to capture the giver faction type, state and possibly the overall system economy/security/population situation.

Obviously going about it with pen and paper or Excel manually it is going to be a chore, so I was wondering if there is a way to capture all this data wholesale when we open the mission board through api stuff in a similar way we can capture market data.

I.e. can we capture missions materials/commodities as rewards, along with the related mission type (currently we can filter those, there are 4 or 5 types of generic missions), the related faction type (corporate, dictatorship etc), the faction state and the overall system economy and security level?

My goal would be to use this data to produce meaningful correlations (probabilistically) that would help indicate where to look for certain mission rewards.

 

[YinYin]

Most of that, yes.

All you have to do is parse the new journal logs.

I'm doing that myself to acquire material data on belt cluster and ring locations from logs that other commanders send me.

edit: I'm waiting for exactly such a tool - that determines conditions and probability for any type of resource from submitted logs

 

[Viajero]

*Mod hat off

So you reckon that getting all the data I mentioned above structured in some kind of table is possible?

I have no idea about this API business but if no one is doing something similar I may have a go at see what´s required to learn.

 

[YinYin]

Some of it may be missing such as faction type. I haven't looked at those details.

All you need to learn is parsing text and storing structured data. Just open one of the journal logs and figure out what you'll need to keep track of as you read them line by line.
Missions for example have a unique id when you take them I think - so you can reconnect that with the collected rewards upon completion.

 

[Viajero]

Ah, thanks. So only taken mission info is produced? What about the rest of the mission board? Not really available?