An example on how to retrieve an artist's discography with Discogs

discogs_search_example.ts

/* The API returns way too much results: the example below is the best approximation
 * to get a discography. Anyway, there are some errors:
 * - another group is present
 * - Cheshire cat's album is missing
 */

import { Client } from 'disconnect';
import dotenv from 'dotenv';
import { envSchema } from './utils';
import { showResult } from './utils/terminal';
const result = dotenv.config();

if (result.error) {
    console.error(result.error.message);
    process.exit(1);
}

const { error } = envSchema.validate(result.parsed);
if (error) {
    console.error(error.message);
    process.exit(1);
}

const client = new Client(process.env.USER_AGENT, {
    consumerKey: process.env.CONSUMER_KEY, 
	consumerSecret: process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET
}).setConfig({
    // see https://github.com/bartve/disconnect/blob/master/lib/client.js#L16
    outputFormat: 'plaintext'
});

(async () => {
    const db = client.database();
    const res = await db.search('blink182', {
        format: 'album',
        type: 'master'
    });

    console.log(res.pagination);
    const albums = res.results
        .filter((result: { format: string[]; }) => {
            if (
                !result.format.includes('Unofficial Release') &&
                !result.format.includes('Compilation')
            ) {
                return result;
            }
        })
        .map((result: any) => ({
            country: result.country,
            year: result.year || 0,
            format: result.format,
            genre: result.genre,
            style: result.style,
            id: result.id, // master id
            title: result.title,
        }))
        .sort((a: { year: string; }, b: { year: string; }) => {
            if (parseInt(a.year, 10) < parseInt(b.year, 10) || (!a.year && b.year)) return -1;
            if (parseInt(a.year, 10) > parseInt(b.year, 10) || (a.year && !b.year)) return 1;
            return 0;
        });

    showResult(albums);
})();