Inara API

More about Inara API is on the API page, general dev guidelines are here and more detailed documentation about the events and data format here.

Just a note for tool authors using Inara API - please ensure your apps are doing  TWO requests per minute AT MAXIMUM. As I have discovered, many users are using multiple apps at once (nothing wrong with that), but are also updating their profiles from all of the applications at once, which is causing quite serious overhead. For such reason, I have needed to make API requests limits much tighter. For bots and other similar non-demanding apps are requests rates set same as before. If do you need another requests rate limit, please send me a PM.

Inara API update for Odyssey:
  • The header property isDeveloped was renamed to less confusing isBeingDeveloped. You don't need to change anything on your end though, the old property will still work.
  • A new event addCommanderTravelLand for commanders landing on the celestial body was added (should be triggered at journal's Touchdown, DropShipDeploy and similar).
  • The events addCommanderTravelCarrierJump, addCommanderTravelDock, addCommanderTravelFSDJump and setCommanderTravelLocation now contain optional properties for the star system coordinates, celestial body and celestial body coordinates. It's not required to set, it may however help to further precise commander's location when the star system is not in the database, etc.
  • The events addCommanderTravelDock, addCommanderTravelFSDJump and addCommanderTravelLand are now having boolean properties isTaxiShuttle and isTaxiDropship for travelling with Apex or Frontline Solutions ships.
  • New events setCommanderInventory, resetCommanderInventory, setCommanderInventoryItem, addCommanderInventoryItem and delCommanderInventoryItem added. Those are supposed for handling the new Odyssey events like ShipLockerMaterials and similar, you can however use it also for the existing engineering materials or ship cargo instead of the existing dedicated events (but you do not need to, they are not going anywhere).
  • New events setCommanderSuitLoadout, updateCommanderSuitLoadout and delCommanderSuitLoadout for the suit loadouts added.
Artie
10 Oct 2021, 1:14pm
Grytr1000
I searched topics carefully and could not find easily where to post this and also I couldn’t find the answer to my question. In, e.g. Inara—>[cmdr]—>My Fleet—>My Fleet Carrier—>Market**, sell prices are different colours. White, blue or orange. I understand that white is average, blue is better than average and orange is great, give me some. But how are the colours determined? Specifically, above what percentage is blue and orange triggered?

The mechanics is following:
- when the price is better by 10% or more than the average price = blue
- when the price is not worse than 98% of the min/max price = yellow

For the blue it can be quite stable, as the average prices aren't shifting too much usually, for yellow it may be quite dynamic. For example, when the max. sell to market price of some commodity is 1000 Cr per unit, the commodity with the prices 981 Cr and more will be marked in yellow. But, when a new highest price of the same commodity will appear, like 2000 Cr per unit, it will be unmarked unless its price will be 1961 Cr and higher.
Goltred
15 Oct 2021, 4:28pm
Hello!

Are there any plans, or is there any possibility of getting system/faction information from inara through the API?

I like the fact that Inara contains the most up-to-date information for a system/factino because of the amount of users pushing information here, which makes it the ideal data source for BGS related decisions (e.g. factions that are being actively helped to go up or down based on influence changes and such)... while other sources may contain the same information, the influence and states of different factions, as well as asset ownership within a system, allow for interesting tooling with access to live-ish data, as opposed to other sources that would limit data to being dumped just once or display different information
Artie
16 Oct 2021, 9:48am
Hello,
no plans for that at the moment. As the vast majority of data is coming in over EDDN, you can utilize Elitebgs API for example. I want to make some improvements for sending some data from Inara there in the future, however.
AvalonGG
29 Oct 2021, 8:58am
Hello

Everytime I board into another cmdrs ship in Odyssey, his ship Popp Up in inara at my cmdrs Hangar as a new ship.
How can I avoid this?
Artie
29 Oct 2021, 9:49am
AvalonGGHello

Everytime I board into another cmdrs ship in Odyssey, his ship Popp Up in inara at my cmdrs Hangar as a new ship.
How can I avoid this?

Hello,
it appears to be added via Inara API update by some 3rd party app, please contact the respective tool author about it. Inara journal imports have a check to prevent this.
Serge Alpenmilch
06 Nov 2021, 11:35am
2001 days Likedeeler on Inara


It's hard to believe, but today 2001 days ago Likedeeler made their home on Inara.



Without Artie's fabulous website, many in Elite would not be what they are.

If Frontier already won't add him to the payroll I can only appeal to make a donation to him as a small thank you for his great and continuous work.

Raise the mug to Artie


o9


Last edit: 06 Nov 2021, 11:41am
Artie
06 Nov 2021, 1:29pm
Thank you for the kind words and congratulations to your squadron!
Cortez Investments
09 Nov 2021, 9:45am
Does anyone else experience problems with inara failing to update position of your carrier when doing sync with frontier?
Cupco
09 Nov 2021, 7:03pm
Cortez InvestmentsDoes anyone else experience problems with inara failing to update position of your carrier when doing sync with frontier?

I don't have a carrier. But I have noticed that Inara does not update fleet carrier dates in the list. Every single one says it was last visited 180 days ago. However, when you click on the individual carrier the update dates are correct.
Artie
10 Nov 2021, 10:58pm
Cupco
I don't have a carrier. But I have noticed that Inara does not update fleet carrier dates in the list. Every single one says it was last visited 180 days ago. However, when you click on the individual carrier the update dates are correct.

Hmmm... where exactly are they listed as updated/visited "180 days ago", please? It may be some display bug then.
Cupco
10 Nov 2021, 11:32pm
Artie Hmmm... where exactly are they listed as updated/visited "180 days ago", please? It may be some display bug then.


In the nearest station list.



Last edit: 11 Nov 2021, 12:10am
Artie
11 Nov 2021, 12:16pm
Thanks for the details, it's really a display issue. I will fix that today.
Tithers
12 Nov 2021, 1:28am
Hi,
Loving the detail in Inara!...but, have recently come across this message when trying to search for 'nearest' important places to find:

'No station within 500000 Ly range found'.

I've not actually managed to travel that far. yet, in my humble Cobra Mk III and so was wondering if this is a known problem. Only been happening the last day or two as far as I can see.

Thanks in advance!
Louis1970
12 Nov 2021, 7:36am
TithersHi,
Loving the detail in Inara!...but, have recently come across this message when trying to search for 'nearest' important places to find:

'No station within 500000 Ly range found'.

I've not actually managed to travel that far. yet, in my humble Cobra Mk III and so was wondering if this is a known problem. Only been happening the last day or two as far as I can see.

Thanks in advance!


For me it seems to happen when I'm in a system that Inara doesn't know. I can only use the search based on region, which works fine for me since there aren't that many stations/carriers out there...

Last edit: 12 Nov 2021, 11:25am
Tithers
12 Nov 2021, 11:45am
Louis1970

For me it seems to happen when I'm in a system that Inara doesn't know. I can only use the search based on region, which works fine for me since there aren't that many stations/carriers out there...


aha! Thanks for that. Will check it out. In the meantime, how exactly does Inara 'learn' about systems? (I'm sure the info is here somewhere, but there's no harm in asking )

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