Discogs-load

A Rust application that inserts Discogs data dumps into Postgres.

Discogs-load uses a simple state machine with the quick-xml Rust library to parse the monthly data dump of discogs and load it into postgres. At moment of writing the largest file of the monthly dump is ~10 gb compressed and takes ~15 minutes to parse and load on a Mac air m1.

Inspired by discogs-xml2db and discogs2pg.

Local binary installation

Compile your own binary, which requires Rust.

cargo build --bin discogs-load --release
./target/release/discogs-load --help

Or download a compressed binary compiled by the Github actions from the Releases page for different platforms and architectures.

The binary needs to be made executable after downloading:

$ gunzip discogs-load-aarch64-apple-darwin.gz
$ chmod +x discogs-load-aarch64-apple-darwin
$ ./discogs-load-aarch64-apple-darwin --help
discogs-load 0.1.1

USAGE:
    discogs-load [OPTIONS] [FILE(S)]...

FLAGS:
    --create-indexes    Creates indexes
    -h, --help          Prints help information
    -V, --version       Prints version information

OPTIONS:
        --batch-size <batch-size>      Number of rows per insert [default: 10000]
        --db-host <db-host>            Database host [default: localhost]
        --db-name <db-name>            Database name [default: discogs]
        --db-password <db-password>    Database password [default: dev_pass]
        --db-user <db-user>            Database user [default: dev]

ARGS:
    <FILE(S)>...    Path to one or more discogs monthly data dump files, still compressed

Usage

Download the releases data dump here, and run the binary with the path to the gz compressed file(s) as only argument. For the example below we'll use a dockerized postgres instance.

docker-compose up -d postgres
./discogs-load-aarch64-apple-darwin discogs_20211201_releases.xml.gz discogs_20220201_labels.xml.gz

It is possible to afterwards run the innitalization of the project defined indexes.

./discogs-load-aarch64-apple-darwin --create-indexes

Datamodel

Tests

If you don't want to run the huge releases file, it is possible to run a smaller example file like so:

docker-compose up -d postgres
cargo run --bin discogs-load discogs-load/test_data/releases.xml.gz discogs-load/test_data/artists.xml.gz

And do a small manual test:

docker exec -it discogs-load-postgres-1 /bin/bash
psql -U dev discogs
select * from release;