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REST API 2.0 Discogs.com client

go-discogs is a Go client library for the Discogs API. Check the usage section to see how to access the Discogs API.

The lib is under MIT but be sure you are familiar with Discogs API Terms of Use.

Features

  • Database
    • Releases
    • Release Rating
    • Master Releases
    • Master Versions
    • Artists
    • Artist Releases
    • Label
    • All Label Releases
  • Search
  • User Collection
    • Collection Folders
    • Folder
    • Collection Items by Folder
    • Collection Items by Release
  • Marketplace
    • Price Suggestions
    • Release Statistics

Install

go get github.com/irlndts/go-discogs

Usage

The discogs package provides a client for accessing the Discogs API. First of all import library and init client variable. According to discogs api documentation you must provide your user-agent.

import "github.com/irlndts/go-discogs"

Some requests require authentication (as any user). According to Discogs, to send requests with Discogs Auth, you have two options: sending your credentials in the query string with key and secret parameters or a token parameter.

client, err := discogs.New(&discogs.Options{
        UserAgent: "Some Name",
        Currency:  "EUR", // optional, "USD" (default), "GBP", "EUR", "CAD", "AUD", "JPY", "CHF", "MXN", "BRL", "NZD", "SEK", "ZAR" are allowed
        Token:     "Some Token", // optional
        URL:       "https://api.discogs.com", // optional
    })

Releases

  release, _ := client.Release(9893847)
  fmt.Println(release.Artists[0].Name, " - ", release.Title) 
  // St. Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review  -  Elephant Riddim

Search

Issue a search query to discogs database. This endpoint accepts pagination parameters. Authentication (as any user) is required.

Use SearchRequest struct to create a request.

type SearchRequest struct {
    Q             string // search query (optional)
    Type          string // one of release, master, artist, label (optional)
    Title         string // search by combined “Artist Name - Release Title” title field (optional)
    ReleaseTitle string // search release titles (optional)
    Credit        string // search release credits (optional)
    Artist        string // search artist names (optional)
    Anv           string // search artist ANV (optional)
    Label         string // search label names (optional)
    Genre         string // search genres (optional)
    Style         string // search styles (optional)
    Country       string // search release country (optional)
    Year          string // search release year (optional)
    Format        string // search formats (optional)
    Catno         string // search catalog number (optional)
    Barcode       string // search barcodes (optional)
    Track         string // search track titles (optional)
    Submitter     string // search submitter username (optional)
    Contributer   string // search contributor usernames (optional)

    Page     int // optional
    PerPage  int // optional
}
  request := discogs.SearchRequest{Artist: "reggaenauts", ReleaseTitle: "river rock", Page: 0, PerPage: 1}
  search, _ := client.Search(request)

  for _, r := range search.Results {
    fmt.Println(r.Title)
  }

User Collection

Query a users collection.

Collection Folders
  collection, err := client.CollectionFolders("my_user")
Folder
  folder, err := client.Folder("my_user", 0)
Collection Items by Folder
  items, err := client.CollectionItemsByFolder("my_user", 0, &Pagination{Sort: "artist", SortOrder: "desc", PerPage: 2})
Collection Items by Release
  items, err := client.CollectionItemsByRelease("my_user", 12934893)

Marketplace

Query a user's marketplace

Price Suggestions

Retrieve price suggestions for the provided Release ID

  suggestions, err := client.PriceSuggestions(12345)
Release Statistics

Retrieve marketplace statistics for the provided Release ID

  stats, err := client.ReleaseStatistics(12345)

...

by the way, this is my discogs page