Re: automatically adding artists' subscriptions via python-musicbrainz2 or musicbrainzngs

Hi Alastair,

thanks a lot for your answer. I was really afraid that the solution will
be so bloated since it means a lot of traffic and requests on the mb
database. Anyway, I do not see a better solution and just wanted to get
a second opinion on this.

Thank you very much again!
Best wishes,
Max

Am 19.03.2015 um 15:35 schrieb Alastair Porter:
> Hi Max,
> 
> You're right, the API doesn't support subscribing to entities, so we
> don't expose that in musicbrainzngs.
> 
> Subscribing is just a matter of visiting a specific url: 
> https://musicbrainz.org/account/subscriptions/artist/add?id=859749
> while you are logged in. If you're comfortable with python-requests or
> scrapy you could do this yourself.
> 
> Unfortunately the biggest problem is that these urls take row ids
> instead of musicbrainz ids. We spoke about it a bit
> (http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz-devel/2015/2015-03/2015-03-19.html#T14-20-26-909477)
> and the easiest way is probably to load the artist page, find the
> subscribe link, and click on it automatically.
> Meanwhile, we've filed some issues
> (http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-8305) to make this easier in
> the future.
> 
> Alastair
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear all,
> 
>     I generated a huge list (python pickled) of artists' IDs to which I want
>     to subscribe. Unfortunately, I cannot find the entry to do this.
>     Obviously, with python-musicbrainzngs I can add them to my collection,
>     but I want to subscribe to them.
> 
>     Any comments, tips, and remarks are highly appreciated.
> 
>     Best wishes,
>     Max