Get user items filtered by some criteria

[pampo]

Hello there,

my name is Matteo and I'm writing from Italy.

I'm playing around with Discogs Python API to retrieve seller's items filtered by some criteria (format, condition, ...), first I tried with client search put I was not able to filter by seller (user), then I tried with client user but I was not able to apply other filters, unless retrieving all items and then filter them locall, which is quite slow and expensive.

May you please point me at the best practice to achieve this goal?

Many thanks in advance,

Matteo

[JOJ0]

Ciao Matteo! There is no real fast solution unfortunately:-(

Slightly related question I think is here but probably not very helpful: #154

[pampo]

Ok, many thanks for your kind and fast reply.

just a final note: I guessed Python API were a wrapper upon REST ones or similar, if I browse a seller's inventory through my Web browser I can set some filters on items that should be applied server-side, then why isn't it possible to do the same in this case?

Regards, Matteo

[JOJ0]

python3-discogs-client is a wrapper around api.discogs.com - have a look at their docs: https://www.discogs.com/developers#page:marketplace,header:marketplace-inventory. We can only implement what is available via this public api. If you find something you need that we don't support in python3-discogs-client yet, please open a feature request.

it could be, and actually I suppose so, Discogs might have a better internal api that drives their website. And also if they wanted to, they could do anything since they even could fetch directly from their databases and whatnot. Years ago they were talking about building a graphql api, maybe that was supposed to be internal only.

[pampo]

Many thanks again for your exhaustive explanation, have a nice day.

Matteo