A collection of useful scripts around Elite Dangerous

preparations for usage

after you have cloned this repository, you need to run

git submodule init
git submodule update

and if for some reason you get back to the existing local copy in a while, you may want to run

git submodule update --remote

to make sure the submodule(s) have been updated to the latest code

edsm-getnearest.py

usage: edsm-getnearest.py [-h] --system SYSTEM [--short] [--gui | --text]
                          CMDR [CMDR ...]

Locate your CMDRs using EDSM and find their distance to a given system.

positional arguments:
  CMDR             a list of CMDR names (must have their location public on
                   EDSM!)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --system SYSTEM  the target system (must be in EDDN!)
  --short          short output (only makes sense with `--text`)
  --gui            explicitly run the GUI
  --text           explicitly give text output

explorationtools.py

usage: explorationtools.py [-h] {bodycount,distancebetween} ...

A collection of tools useful for exploration.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

subcommands:
  {bodycount,distancebetween}
                        sub-command help
    bodycount           Returns the number of bodies in a system. Will exit
                        with code 1 on server error and code 2 if the system
                        could not be found in EDSM.
	distancebetween     Calculates the distance between two systems. Will exit
                        with code 1 on server error and code 2 if (one of) the
						systems could not be found on EDSM.

usage: explorationtools.py bodycount [-h] system

positional arguments:
  system

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

usage: explorationtools.py distancebetween [-h] system system

positional arguments:
  system

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit