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Consider signing up for Inara API as a substitute for cAPI #9

Closed mvcircelli closed 2 years ago

mvcircelli commented 3 years ago

Inara's API tracks fleet carrier cargo using cAPI, and exposes it to its API, meaning that we could theoretically obtain a carrier's cargo with the same or similar reliability to directly using cAPI. Fleet Carrier Owners could pass their API keys to the bot as an extra field to the current enrolment system.

Downsides to this are that we need to sign up for the Inara API program, and the Inara API is significantly more complex to use.

Similarly, EDSM seems to have an API endpoint for commander cargo, though I suspect this is not as good of a substitute since it might include all cargo across all ships, as opposed to just FC cargo.

durzo commented 2 years ago

closing this as we have cAPI and Inara API does not return carrier cargo