Import from Delicious Library

[johnbshk]

I am looking for any guidance on how I might use the client to help me import my collection from Delicious Library into Discogs. I believe that the UPC is the key index for DL, so any hints about how to use that in the import process would be gratefully received! Thanks, John

[JOJ0]

You should probably provide more context. What is Delicious, what is your plan exactly? Do they have an API? And so on. Hope that helps

[johnbshk]

Delicious Library was an excellent book/CD library tool for Mac. It can export CSV files, where the UPC (i.e the number stored in bar code) is the primary index. I guess the question is whether I can use the client to find the best matching record in Discogs and add to my collection. Thanks

[JOJ0]

barcode still not directly supported :-(

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but you could implement support? or work around it using .fetch()

[johnbshk]

Sorry, but your example of fetch() seems to require that I already know the release_id, whereas what I know is the UPC (barcode number in DISCOGS). I would be grateful for a hint about how to use fetch() without knowing the release_id. Thanks a lot.

[AnssiAhola]

You could use the search method to search for each record with the barcode and pick the correct one from the results.

See the docs here https://python3-discogs-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#searching

That supports barcode as an keyword argument.

d.search(barcode="")

This wont be vary fast way to do it especially if your collection is in the hundreds of records.

Hope that helps. Cheers.

[johnbshk]

That is very helpful. I have thousands of records, but I only need to do it once (once my code is working correctly). I can see some challenges in selecting amongst many records with the same barcode, but I think I will choose the most popular record for now.