mkiki/wg-discogs

Wraps discogs API to get music metadata

Discogs API to get music metadata

Utilities to retrieve cover and artist images from Discogs.

Discogs API

Installation

npm link wg-log
npm link wg-utils
npm install

Usage

const Discogs = require('wg-discogs').Discogs;
const utils = require('wg-utils');

Create the Discogs API proxy, passing it your Discogs key and secret

var discogs = new Discogs(key, secret);

Search for releases

return discogs.searchReleases("Benighted", "Psychose", function(err, releases) {
	...

Search for artists

return discogs.searchArtists("Benighted", function(err, artists) {
	...

Get artist picture

return discogs.searchArtists("Benighted", function(err, artists) {
    var thumb = artists[0].thumb;
    var ext = utils.getExtension(thumb);
    var wstream = fs.createWriteStream('/tmp/artist.' + ext);
	 return discogs.getAlbumArt(thumb, wstream, function(err) {
	 	...
      wstream.end();

Get album covert image

return discogs.searchReleases("Benighted", "Psychose", function(err, releases) {
	var thumb = releases[0].thumb;
	var ext = utils.getExtension(thumb);
	var wstream = fs.createWriteStream('/tmp/album.' + ext);
    return discogs.getAlbumArt(thumb, wstream, function(err) {
    	...
		wstream.end();

Discogs Release

style	string[]	A list of syles for this release. Ex: ["Black Metal", "Death Metal"],
thumb	string	The URL to the thumbnail image. Ex: https://api-img.discogs.com/rYq-RDtA503SUrt-y40hUAoofFk=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-679234-1146818572.jpeg.jpg
format	string[]	The release format. Ex: ["CD", "Album"]
country	string	The release country. Ex: "France"
barcode	string[]	Example: ["3700132600549", "DOCdata FRANCE CDAR054"]
uri	string	The image orientation. 1=TopLeft, 2=TopRight, 3=BottomRight, 4=BottomLeft, 5=LeftTop, 6=RightTop, 7=RightBottom, 8=LeftBottom
community	Object
label	string[]	The release album label. Ex: ["Adipocere Records"]
catno	string
year	string	The release year. Ex: "2002"
genre	string[]	The release genre(s). Ex: ["Rock"]
title	string	The release title. Ex: "Benighted - Psychose"
resource_url	string	The release resource URL. Ex: "https://api.discogs.com/releases/679234"
type	string	The release type. Ex: "release"
id	number	The release Discogs identifier

Discogs Artist

title	string[]	The artist name
thumb	string	The URL to the thumbnail image. Ex: https://api-img.discogs.com/rYq-RDtA503SUrt-y40hUAoofFk=/fit-in/150x150/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-679234-1146818572.jpeg.jpg
uri	string[]
resource_url	string
id	number	The release Discogs identifier