Feature Request: Original Year on Artist Pages about discogs-enhancer

[salcido]

@tsnavi Hey, sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. I've been away on vacation for the last week.

I'll take a look at this but my gut feeling is there is not a fast / easy way to do this. I think because the MR data needs to be fetched for each MR, the extension would need to iterate over all the releases and make a request for each one, and then update the DOM with the actual release date.

That will make things slow because Discogs limits the number of requests you can make to 1 per second or 60 in a minute. If you're looking at an artist page with lots of MR, it could take several minutes to fire off every request. I hope that makes sense.

[tsnavi]

No worries, hope you had a good time!
Yeah, that makes sense. After making the feature request I started digging into the Discogs API myself and managed to make a really rough version using Flask. I will upload a working version of it once I've knocked it into shape.

I'm currently stuck on getting Discogs API to provide a specific 'role' or 'credit' a person has on a record, it seems to like calling things 'Appearance' when they're not, probably because I'm asking the wrong question...

[tsnavi]

Dead rough, but here's a working demo:
https://github.com/tsnavi/albinij/

https://tsnavi.pythonanywhere.com/