inventory.sort( *('listed', 'asc') ) doesn't seem to match my website store?

[feacluster]

In my discogs store if I sort by "listed oldest", I get different records then what I get from inventory.sort( *('listed', 'asc') ).

For example here:

https://www.discogs.com/seller/faraz12inch45rpm/profile?sort=listed%2Casc&limit=25

First match is a record by the Romantics. - https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/951210059

But using the discogs API first match is this one by Aerosmith - https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3078045265

Guessing the API calculates listed date differently than how the website calculates it? But the Romantics record I know I listed it well before the Aerosmith one.

[JOJ0]

can you repro this issue when using the api directly with eg python requests?

you didn't provide your python3-discogs-client version.

thanks for the report and speak soon.

[feacluster]

Thanks, I am using:

python3-discogs-client==2.3.12

Here' a code snippet to reproduce the issue. Though I think ('listed', 'asc') and ('listed', 'desc'), are doing some combination of alphabetical sort and date listed sort. I just need date listed sort.

import discogs_client
import sys, time, re, time, json

#####################

def decode( string ):

    return string.encode('utf-8').strip().decode('utf8')

########
# MAIN #
########

d = discogs_client.Client('Crate_Digger_Application_by_faraz12inch45rpm/0.1', user_token="xxxxxxxxxx")

options = [
    ('listed', 'asc'),
    ('listed', 'desc'),
]

print("<h3> Discogs to Ebay Report </h3>" )
print("<h4> Page will refresh automatically as new listings are found by the script</h4>" )
print("<h4> Be patient as can take upto 20 minutes to run depending on size of your inventory</h4>" )

########################

seller = d.user( 'faraz12inch45rpm' )
inventory = seller.inventory
inventory.sort( *('listed', 'desc') )

inventory._per_page=100
pages = inventory.pages

count = 0
total = len(inventory)

print("<p>", total, " items found in seller's inventory <p> ")

for page_num in range(1, min(100, pages) + 1):
    for album in inventory.page(page_num):
        if ( not re.search ( 'For Sale', album.data['status']  ) ):
            continue
        id =  str ( album.data['release']['id'] )
        artist = decode ( album.data['release']['artist'])
        print ( artist )

[JOJ0]

python3-discogs-client provides Sort enum, but it seems like it's exactly what you do by literally providing "listed"

discogs_client/discogs_client/utils.py

Line 122 in 98059c0

LISTED = 'listed'

And the result is the same when you use python+requests without python3-discogs-client? In that case we can't do anything about it then Discogs API just is not what Discogs Website is. We can't really change that.

you could try updating python3-discogs-client to make sure (2.3.12. is rather old), but probably it won't change anything.

[JOJ0]

@feacluster I'll close this since we can't do much about it, ok?