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Overview

Tools for working with the Discogs API in R.

Discogs Developers Site: https://www.discogs.com/developers

Install

Development version

devtools::install_github('ewenme/discogger')

Authenticate

  1. Create a Discogs API v2 application
  2. Generate a personal access token from your API application page
  3. Set your credentials in the System Environment variable DISCOGS_API_TOKEN by calling the discogs_api_token() function and entering your Discogs application personal access token when prompted.

Use

library(discogger)
library(tidyverse)

Who released the most Dance Mania records?

# get dance mania records listed on discogs
dm_recs <- discogs_label_releases(label_id = 314)

dm_recs$content %>%
  group_by(artist) %>%
  summarise(n_releases = n_distinct(catno)) %>%
  arrange(desc(n_releases)) %>%
  top_n(10)

## # A tibble: 10 x 2
##    artist          n_releases
##    <chr>                <int>
##  1 Various                 21
##  2 DJ Milton               15
##  3 D.J. Funk*              13
##  4 DJ Deeon                13
##  5 Paul Johnson            11
##  6 Robert Armani           11
##  7 Jammin Gerald           10
##  8 Parris Mitchell          9
##  9 D.J. Slugo*              7
## 10 DJ Funk                  7

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