Linking Discogs and Zotero

indicedigini
Hi all,

Is there a way or is there anyone aware of how to link Discogs (the worldcat of music) and Zotero? If not, I would like to help and support the development of a solution.

I would like to use the guidelines offered by the academic journal Dancecult (see Discography). https://dj.dancecult.net/public/journals/24/dancecult_styleguide.pdf

Best,
AK
  • Weetzie
    Hi AK,

    I'm not aware of any way to link Discogs and Zotero, but I know that Discogs has an open API so that might help get something started?

    https://www.discogs.com/developers/

    Best of luck!
  • indicedigini
    Thank you! I will get in touch and let you know any further developments....

  • indicedigini
    edited October 26, 2019
    If anyone is interested in helping me translating Discogs entries for Zotero let me know
  • echantillonneur
    Popped up here trying to find a solution for this exact "issue". Any news on how to solve it?
  • daeavelwyn
    hi folks,

    I'm on if someone get a solution to link/import informations from discog to zotero ! Some news ?
  • alflamingo
    edited October 17, 2022
    +1 for that request, I am interested too (create and manage playlist in my case, also for creating discographies. Somebody create a style for filmography by the way, maybe that could give some ideas, see in forum).
  • Skelbti
    Hi,
    I'm interested to improve the way how the web browser connector collect data from Discogs. I've got a bit of knowledge in coding but need help to find where to look at. Now, the connector finds that it's a recording, its date and mixed artist name with title.

    What I suppose it should do is:
    - to get the label name and its catalog ref
    - add the country to place field
    - add credit to Abstract field

    If someone with better knowledge of how Zotero Web Browser connector see this message, please help.
  • aborel
    At the moment, the connector is using metadata embedded in the web page, which doesn't always yield excellent results - as you can see. Better quality can be achieved using a dedicated web translator script:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/translators
    https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators

    Translators are kind of fun to write, after your development environment is properly set up.
  • Skelbti
    Thank you @aborel! Coding a translator doesn't seem too hard. I don't have the time to do it right now but I will as soon as possible.
  • escdotdot
    [I'm no technical expert, so I doubt I would be any use on the development of this, but I would very like to +1 this effort as I am creating a catalogue for an archive of music publications, and all that information is currently in Discogs. I can certainly help as a tester though.]
  • Skelbti
    Update: A PR from late 2025 adds a Discogs translator (https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/3451).

    If you would like to try it out, you can download the JavaScript (JS) file here (https://github.com/Michael-Z-Freeman/translators/blob/Michael-Z-Freeman-Discogs-patch-1/Discogs.js) and add it to your translator directory.

    I made some modifications for it to work the way I wanted (see my PR comment), but everything is fine now!
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