Discogs Api

This library is a PHP 5.4 implementation of the Discogs API v2.0. The Discogs API is a REST-based interface. By using this library you don't have to worry about communicating with the API: all the hard work has already be done.

This API is build upon the shoulders of a giant: Guzzle 4.0. This is an absolutely awesome library.

License

This library is released under the MIT license. See the complete license in the LICENSE file.

Installation

Start by installing composer. Next do:

$ composer require ricbra/php-discogs-api

Requirements

PHP >=5.4.0

Usage

Creating a new instance is as simple as:

<?php
$client = Discogs\ClientFactory::factory([]);

User-Agent

Discogs requires that you supply a User-Agent. You can do this easily:

<?php
$client = Discogs\ClientFactory::factory([
    'defaults' => [
        'headers' => ['User-Agent' => 'your-app-name/0.1 +https://www.awesomesite.com'],
    ]
]);

Throttling

Discogs doesn't like it when you hit their API at a too high connection rate. Use the ThrottleSubscriber to prevent getting errors or banned:

<?php

$client = Discogs\ClientFactory::factory();
$client->getHttpClient()->getEmitter()->attach(new Discogs\Subscriber\ThrottleSubscriber());

OAuth

There are a lot of endpoints which require OAuth. Lucky for you using Guzzle this is peanuts. If you're having trouble obtaining the token and token_secret, please check out my example implementation.

<?php

$client = Discogs\ClientFactory::factory([]);
$oauth = new GuzzleHttp\Subscriber\Oauth\Oauth1([
    'consumer_key'    => $consumerKey, // from Discogs developer page
    'consumer_secret' => $consumerSecret, // from Discogs developer page
    'token'           => $token['oauth_token'], // get this using a OAuth library
    'token_secret'    => $token['oauth_token_secret'] // get this using a OAuth library
]);
$client->getHttpClient()->getEmitter()->attach($oauth);

$response = $client->search([
    'q' => 'searchstring'
]);

History

Another cool plugin is the History plugin:

<?php

$client = Discogs\ClientFactory::factory([]);
$history = new GuzzleHttp\Subscriber\History();
$client->getHttpClient()->getEmitter()->attach($history);

$response = $client->search([
    'q' => 'searchstring'
]);

foreach ($history as $row) {
    print (string) $row['request'];
    print (string) $row['response'];
}

More info and plugins

For more information about Guzzle and its plugins checkout the docs.

Perform a search:

Per august 2014 a signed OAuth request is required for this endpoint.

<?php

$response = $client->search([
    'q' => 'Meagashira'
]);
// Loop through results
foreach ($response['results'] as $result) {
    var_dump($result['title']);
}
// Pagination data
var_dump($response['pagination']);

// Dump all data
var_dump($response->toArray());

Get information about a label:

<?php

$label = $service->getLabel([
    'id' => 1
]);

Get information about an artist:

<?php

$artist = $service->getArtist([
    'id' => 1
]);

Get information about a release:

<?php

$release = $service->getRelease([
    'id' => 1
]);

echo $release['title']."\n";

Get information about a master release:

<?php

$master  = $service->getMaster([
    'id' => 1
]);

echo $master['title']."\n";

Documentation

Further documentation can be found at the Discogs API v2.0 Documentation.

Contributing

Implemented a missing call? PR's are welcome!