Other Frontier Developers APIs for Elite Dangerous

May 27, 2021 ยท View on GitHub

There are a few other APIs provider by Frontier for the game Elite Dangerous that they've either explicitly told us about or never made a fuss about us using.

These tend to relate to general game information, nothing commander-specific.

No, there's no public API for general game data like "market prices at a given station".

Community Goals

As of 2021-05-27 we know of:

https://api.orerve.net/2.0/website/initiatives/list?lang=en

  1. Note the lang=en parameter passed. These languages are known to be supported:

    1. de - German
    2. en - English
    3. fr - French
    4. es - Spanish
    5. pt - Portugese (Brazilian?)
    6. ru - Russian

  2. The output format will differ depending on the Accept HTTP header you send.

    1. Accept: */* will return JSON, as per the response header Content-Type: application/json.
    2. Accept: text/xml will return XML as per the response header Content-Type: application/xml.

GalNet Posts

As of 2021-05-27 we know of these sources for GalNet news posts:

  1. Community site RSS feed - https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet-rss.

  2. cms.zaonce.net - https://cms.zaonce.net/en-GB/jsonapi/node/galnet_article

    1. With Accept: */* this returns JSON with the response header content-type: application/vnd.api+json.

    2. You can also filter to specific articles with, e.g.

      https://cms.zaonce.net/en-GB/jsonapi/node/galnet_article?filter%5Bfield_slug%5D=tritium-mining-marks-alliance-election-day

    Note the URL %-escaping of [...] to %5B...%5D.

There was another endpoint that could give you JSON output, but it was hosted on elitedangerous-website-backend-production.elitedangerous.com. That hostname no longer resolves.

See Also

Someone else has been investigating this - https://gist.github.com/corenting/b6ac5cf8f446f54856e08b6e287fe835