UserTokenRequestsFetcher and bytes

[apwob1]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for maintaining!

I'm trying to use the UserTokenRequestsFetcher class to fetch all of my Discogs Lists (and later, their Items). Ultimately I'm trying to push this data into a local database, and so need to process the data as such.

As per the documentation, it returns a bytes object, but being fairly new to Python, I'm struggling to move forward from that point. I've got it converted to a dictionary, but then it doesn't behave as I would expect (throwing errors when trying to convert it from there into a pandas DataFrame.

Appreciate this is more of a me-issue than a library-issue, but just wondered if you there was an expected set of next steps to take with results from the Fetcher classes? Is there another part of this library that could help me get what I need from the API?

Cheers in advance!

[AnssiAhola]

Hey @apwob1

Im not sure I get what you are trying to do 😅
Theres a Client class that you can use to make calls to the api.

You can get a list by id using client.list('id')
Or your lists by client.user('yourusername').lists

Have you read our new docs? https://python3-discogs-client.readthedocs.org/

Hope that helped atleast in some way, cheers.

[JOJ0]

Hi😀, not sure if relevant with your issue but which python version are you using?

[JOJ0]

Ah, ok now I took the time to read your initial post again and finally understand what you are trying to do. You want to instantiate the UserTokenRequestsFetcher yourself. Then you pass in a url and try to fetch from it. I never tried this and I don't think you should do that / want to do that. This is not the intended way of interacting with discogs_client. As Anssi already pointed out: Please just use the list methods of client and user instance and then let's work from there. Do you have the same issues when trying to add to pandas df?
Hope that helps! :-) Get back to us with any progress. thanks!

[JOJ0]

And while looking at our docs I find that the list(s) methods are not documented. Unfortunately our fetching data section is lacking an example for that: https://python3-discogs-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fetching_data.html

I only find this, which is a rather poor description of what the method does 💯 haha: https://python3-discogs-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discogs_client.html#discogs_client.models.User.lists

This is, well, not too bad in comparision ;-))) https://python3-discogs-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discogs_client.html#discogs_client.client.Client.list

I hope we find the time to improve docs on this end, sorry for that in the meantime, we'll figure your issue out without docs ;-)

[JOJ0]

And to be "superclear": To properly authenticate using the UserTokenRequestsFetcher only the first line of your code should be necessary. E.g as described here: https://python3-discogs-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/authentication.html#user-token-authentication