discogs-python3-examples

Simple examples of accessing discogs with Python 3, using the official discog-client Python library. More information is available here:

• The discog-client repository: https://github.com/discogs/discogs_client

• The discogs developer page: https://www.discogs.com/developers/

• Python 2 examples: https://github.com/jesseward/discogs-oauth-example

The above resources were also very helpful putting the examples in this repository together.

Install

The scripts in this repository assume that you are using Python 3, probably Python 3.4+ at this point. I'd suggest making a virtual environment with Python 3 and installing the discogs-client using pip:

$ pip install discogs-client

This should also install oauthlib, requests, and six automatically. If you want to install the exact package versions used when I developed these scripts, I've included a requirements.txt file. To use this, install with:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Scripts

config_example.py

Copy this script to config.py and add your tokens/keys here-- hopefully this helps (me and you) avoid the posting of tokens/keys to public repositories.

user_token.py

If you only want to access your own data on discogs, you can get a user token and authenticate as shown in this script.

consumer_key.py

This script uses the OOB flow for OAuth authentication-- a url will be obtained that allows the user to validate the script/app for access to their account information. The file access_tokens.py is written for future use of the approved script/app using the access tokens obtained from discogs.

previously_approved_key.py

This script uses the access tokens obtained when the above example, consumer_key.py, was run. Because permission was already granted to the script/app, the user information and example queries run without interaction.