EDDN - Elite Dangerous Data Network
About EDDN
Elite Dangerous Data Network is a tool that facilitates the players of the game Elite Dangerous, including its expansions, sharing data about the game galaxy with others. By pooling data in a common format, tools and analyses can be produced that add an even greater depth and vibrancy to the in-game universe.
EDDN is not run by or affiliated with the developer of the game - Frontier Developments.
The live EDDN service itself does not store any data, and thus makes no archive or "current state" available to anyone. What it provides is a stream of live data to any interested parties. Some of those then make aggregated data available for general use.
Using EDDN
Game players
If you are a player of the game and only want to help out by sharing the data available to you over EDDN then please consult the EDCD Cmdr's Guide. For the most part if you want to share data then you will need to be playing the game on a PC, but there are some tools that utilise an API provided by the game developer that can supply some data if you are playing on a console.
If you're looking for tools that utilise EDDN data to enhance your experience then you're probably looking for one of the sites listed below. NB: These are listed in name-alphabetical order and no particular ranking or endorsement is intended.
- EDDB - a website which tries to act as a database of all the data available in the game. In general EDDB tries to help finding stuff which players are looking for.
- EDSM - originally focused on being a 'Star Map', but has since expanded its functionality. Of particular interest to in-game explorers.
- Inara - a popular alternative to EDDB, with a lot of its own unique functionality.
- Spansh - originally this had one tool, a 'Neutron Star' route plotter, but has since expanded into offering many other route plotting tools and general data searching.
There are many other third-party tools for Elite Dangerous listed on Elite: Dangerous Codex, some of which will interact with EDDN. Check the EDDN tag.
Developers
If you are a developer of a third-party tool that could be enhanced by
uploading data to EDDN then please consult
the live branch documentation
.
DO NOT assume that any code or documentation in the master (or
any other) branch on GitHub truly reflects the current live service!
Misc
There is also a wiki page, but its contents are currently being migrated into the source code tree (so that they always match the in-use code).
Consult EDDN Status for some information about, and statistics for, the live service.
Hosting of the live service
Hosting is currently provided by the Elite: Dangerous Community Developers.