discogs-client now deprecated

[grawlinson]

As of today, the discogs-client package has been deprecated. This will become an issue when upstream breaks API compatibility.

This repository is no longer maintained. You can still use a REST client like Requests or other third-party Python library to access the Discogs REST API.

[sampsyo]

That's too bad! Perhaps a volunteer is interested in forking it and attempting to maintain the library independently?

[grawlinson]

Yeah, I'll make a fork as I use this quite extensively.

For now, are you OK to depend on the current package? I don't expect it to break compatibility anytime soon!

[sampsyo]

Yes, sounds good! No need to drop it if it's not currently causing problems. Thanks for being willing to adopt it! 😃

[grawlinson]

I've forked the current package here, feel free to update documentation/code pointing to it.

Also, I'd appreciate if feedback could be made regarding improvements to the code as-is. It'll take me a bit of time to look at the closed issues/PRs on discogs-client.

EDIT: The package is also on PyPi.

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

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[jhuldtgren]

is there timeline to get the code updated to use discogs_api vs discogs_client? I maintain the discogs_client port/package for OpenBSD and was looking to replace it with discogs_api but until the appropriate code is updated in beets that can't happen.

[grawlinson]

A pull request will need to be proposed. I wish I had the time to do this, so if you could do that, it would be great.

It should be as simple as replacing all calls made to discogs_client with discogs_api.

Any further issues, I'll be happy to help.

[sampsyo]

That would be great! And indeed; I don't think the change should be hard.

[pbnoxious]

I think all you need to do codewise is replace the imports, the API seems to have mostly stayed the same.

I actually did the changes and wanted to do a PR (here is the branch), but realized that there are now multiple forks, also one that keeps the package named discogs_client.
Using that one would likely only require to change the dependency discogs-client -> python3-discogs-client in setup.py (and maybe the documentation).

What are your thoughts? Which of the forks should be used?

[sampsyo]

Can we trust your judgment on that? Does any one fork look more promising than the others?

[grawlinson]

Considering that the discogs community have converged on joalla/discogs_client rather than others (including my fork), it would be preferable to go with that one.