feat: Discogs user integration — authenticate, sync collection & wantlist

[SimplicityGuy]

Overview

Add first-party Discogs user integration to discogsography: users create an account, connect their Discogs profile via OAuth 1.0a, then sync their personal collection and wantlist to both Neo4j and PostgreSQL. Unlocks a new category of personalized features on top of the existing global Discogs knowledge graph.

Motivation

The current discogsography pipeline ingests the complete Discogs data dump (50GB+) into Neo4j and PostgreSQL, enabling exploration of the full music graph. Adding user identity and personal data creates:

• Personal collection browsing within the knowledge graph
• Wantlist analysis with graph-powered context
• Recommendations based on collection graph traversal
• Collection analytics (by genre, decade, label, condition, etc.)
• Foundation for future features (price tracking, social comparison, collection completeness scores)

Reference Implementation

vinyldigger (/Users/Robert/Code/public/vinyldigger) has a fully working implementation of all the key pieces:

Feature	vinyldigger location
Discogs OAuth 1.0a (OOB flow)	backend/src/api/v1/endpoints/oauth.py
DiscogsOAuth1Auth httpx class	backend/src/services/discogs.py
Redis request token store	backend/src/core/token_store.py
Collection/wantlist sync	backend/src/workers/tasks.py
Celery task setup	backend/src/workers/celery_app.py
OAuth token model	backend/src/models/oauth_token.py
Collection/item models	backend/src/models/collection.py
Collection/wantlist flags on results	backend/src/models/search_result.py
Connect UI (settings page)	frontend/src/pages/SettingsPage.tsx
OAuth API client	frontend/src/lib/api.ts

Architecture

Three new components:

Component	Type	Purpose
auth	New microservice (FastAPI, port 8004/8005)	User accounts + JWT + Discogs OAuth 1.0a
collector	New microservice (FastAPI + Celery, port 8010/8011)	Collection/wantlist sync to Neo4j + PostgreSQL
Explore extensions	Existing service + new endpoints	Personalized graph queries and UI

Data Flow

User registers/logs in → auth service (JWT tokens)
     ↓
User connects Discogs → auth service
     OAuth 1.0a OOB flow:
     1. Backend → Discogs: request token (callback_uri="oob")
     2. State stored in Redis (10-min TTL, CSRF protection)
     3. Frontend opens Discogs in popup window
     4. User pastes verification code into app
     5. Backend exchanges verifier → access token + secret
     6. Identity fetched from /oauth/identity
     7. Token stored in oauth_tokens table (unique per user/provider)
     ↓
User triggers sync → collector service
     Celery background task:
     - Paginate Discogs collection API (100/page, 0.5s delay)
     - Paginate Discogs wantlist API
     - Upsert to PostgreSQL (user_collections, user_wantlists)
     - MERGE relationships in Neo4j (COLLECTED, WANTS on existing Release nodes)
     - Track in sync_history
     ↓
User explores → explore service
     New endpoints: /user/collection, /user/wantlist, /user/recommendations
     Existing endpoints: decorated with in_collection/in_wantlist flags

Key Implementation Details from vinyldigger

OAuth Flow: Out-of-Band (OOB)

Discogs supports OOB where the user gets a verification code on the Discogs site and types it into the app. No web callback URL is required. Use callback_uri="oob" in the initial request token call.

Discogs API Response Key Difference

• Collection: response key is releases, release ID at item["basic_information"]["id"]
• Wantlist: response key is wants, release ID at item["id"]

This is a critical gotcha — the wantlist ID is at the top level while collection ID is nested.

Rate Limiting

Use asyncio.sleep(0.5) between paginated requests (vinyldigger-validated, keeps well under the 60 req/min limit).

App Credentials Storage

Store Discogs consumer key/secret in app_config database table (admin-configured via API), not environment variables. This matches vinyldigger's per-instance configuration approach.

Background Processing

Use Celery for sync tasks with Redis as broker. Each Celery task creates a fresh SQLAlchemy async engine (required for greenlet context compatibility). APScheduler can be added for periodic resyncs.

New Database Objects

PostgreSQL (new tables)

• users — email, hashed_password, is_active
• oauth_tokens — Discogs access_token + secret, provider_username, provider_user_id (unique per user+provider)
• app_config — Discogs consumer key/secret (admin-managed)
• user_collections — per-user collection items with title, artist, year, format, label, condition, rating, notes, JSONB metadata
• user_wantlists — per-user wantlist items with title, artist, year, format, rating, notes, JSONB metadata
• sync_history — sync job tracking (status, items synced, pages fetched, errors, timestamps)

Neo4j (new nodes + relationships)

• User node — internal UUID + Discogs username/ID
• COLLECTED relationship — User → Release (with rating, folder_id, instance_id, date_added, format)
• WANTS relationship — User → Release (with rating, date_added, notes)

Sub-Tasks (implement in order — each depends on the previous)

• Step 1 — feat(auth): Add user account system with JWT authentication #56 — feat(auth): Add user account system with JWT authentication

  • New auth microservice; users and oauth_tokens tables; register/login/me endpoints
  • Stack: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy async, passlib[bcrypt], python-jose[cryptography]
  • Adapts from vinyldigger backend/src/models/user.py + apollonia api/endpoints/auth.py

• Step 2 — feat(auth): Implement Discogs OAuth 1.0a account connection #57 — (requires feat(auth): Add user account system with JWT authentication #56) feat(auth): Implement Discogs OAuth 1.0a account connection

  • OOB flow with Redis state store (10-min TTL); DiscogsOAuth1Auth httpx class
  • Endpoints: /oauth/authorize/discogs, /oauth/verify/discogs, /oauth/status/discogs, /oauth/revoke/discogs
  • Frontend: popup window + manual verification code input (from vinyldigger SettingsPage.tsx)

• Step 3 — feat(collector): Create collector microservice for Discogs collection & wantlist sync #58 — (requires feat(auth): Add user account system with JWT authentication #56, feat(auth): Implement Discogs OAuth 1.0a account connection #57) feat(collector): Create collector microservice for Discogs collection & wantlist sync

  • Celery task with APScheduler; paginated sync with 0.5s delay
  • Critical: collection uses releases key + nested ID; wantlist uses wants key + top-level ID
  • Upserts to PostgreSQL and Neo4j; sync history tracking

• Step 4 — feat(explore): User collection & wantlist graph queries and UI #59 — (requires feat(collector): Create collector microservice for Discogs collection & wantlist sync #58) feat(explore): User collection & wantlist graph queries and UI

  • Personalized endpoints: /user/collection, /user/wantlist, /user/recommendations, /user/collection/stats
  • Ownership decoration on existing release queries (mirrors vinyldigger is_in_collection/is_in_wantlist)
  • Frontend: My Collection, Wantlist, Discover tabs; D3.js collection graph

Environment Variables Required

# Auth service
JWT_SECRET_KEY=<random-256-bit-key>
REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379

# Discogs credentials (stored in app_config table, configured via admin API — NOT env vars)
# Register app at: https://www.discogs.com/settings/developers

# Both auth + collector services
DISCOGS_USER_AGENT=discogsography/1.0 +https://github.com/SimplicityGuy/discogsography

Future Features Unlocked

• Collection value tracking — Discogs marketplace pricing over time
• Multi-user comparison — "Who else collects what I collect?"
• Collection completeness scores — "You have 60% of the ECM catalog"
• Label/pressing deep dives — "Which pressing of X do I own?"
• Export — collection/wantlist to CSV
• Price alerts — notify when wantlist items appear at target price on Discogs marketplace

Acceptance Criteria

• User can create an account and log in via email/password
• User can connect their Discogs account via OAuth (OOB: popup + verification code)
• OAuth tokens stored securely in oauth_tokens table
• User can trigger a sync of their collection and wantlist
• Sync runs as Celery background task
• Synced data appears in both Neo4j (COLLECTED/WANTS relationships) and PostgreSQL
• User can resync at any time (upsert semantics, stale data cleaned)
• Explore service shows personalized collection/wantlist queries
• Existing release detail pages show in_collection/in_wantlist flags for authenticated users
• All user data is private (only accessible to that user via JWT)
• Discogs API rate limits respected (0.5s delay, backoff on 429)
• All services integrated in docker-compose

[SimplicityGuy]

@claude Can you start implementing this work item? Make sure to create a branch, and sub-branches from the main one for each sub task (or if there's a better way to do this, do so). Please issue PRs for each work item as it's completed

[claude]

Claude finished @SimplicityGuy's task in 42m 21s —— View job • claude/issue-60-20260222-0508

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Implementation Complete

All four steps of issue #60 have been implemented across separate sub-branches for isolated review.

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Sub-task PRs

Step	Issue	Branch	PR Link
1	#56 — Auth microservice	claude/issue-56-auth-user-accounts	https://github.com/SimplicityGuy/discogsography/compare/main...claude/issue-56-auth-user-accounts?quick_pull=1
2	#57 — Discogs OAuth 1.0a OOB	claude/issue-57-discogs-oauth	https://github.com/SimplicityGuy/discogsography/compare/main...claude/issue-57-discogs-oauth?quick_pull=1
3	#58 — Collector microservice	claude/issue-58-collector-service	https://github.com/SimplicityGuy/discogsography/compare/main...claude/issue-58-collector-service?quick_pull=1
4	#59 — Explore extensions	claude/issue-59-explore-extensions	https://github.com/SimplicityGuy/discogsography/compare/main...claude/issue-59-explore-extensions?quick_pull=1

The main feature branch claude/issue-60-20260222-0508 contains the full cumulative implementation.

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What was implemented

Step 1 — Auth microservice (auth/)

• FastAPI service on ports 8004 (API) / 8005 (health)
• POST /api/auth/register — email + password (PBKDF2-SHA256, stdlib only)
• POST /api/auth/login — returns HS256 JWT (stdlib hmac + hashlib)
• GET /api/auth/me — returns authenticated user info
• PostgreSQL tables added to schema-init: users, oauth_tokens, app_config, user_collections, user_wantlists, sync_history
• AuthConfig added to common/config.py

Step 2 — Discogs OAuth 1.0a OOB (auth/services/discogs.py)

• Full three-legged OAuth 1.0a OOB flow using stdlib hmac + hashlib
• GET /api/oauth/authorize/discogs — returns Discogs authorization URL
• POST /api/oauth/verify/discogs — exchanges verifier code for access token
• GET /api/oauth/status/discogs — check if connected
• DELETE /api/oauth/revoke/discogs — revoke connection
• PUT /api/admin/config/{key} — store Discogs app credentials
• OAuth state stored in Redis with 10-minute TTL

Step 3 — Collector microservice (collector/)

• FastAPI service on ports 8010 (API) / 8011 (health)
• JWT-authenticated endpoints: POST /api/sync, GET /api/sync/status
• collector/syncer.py — paginated Discogs API sync with OAuth 1.0a signing
  • Upserts collection/wantlist to user_collections / user_wantlists (PostgreSQL)
  • Creates User node and COLLECTED / WANTS relationships (Neo4j)
  • 0.5s delay between pages; 60s back-off on 429 rate limits
• Background sync via asyncio.create_task() (no Celery dependency)
• CollectorConfig added to common/config.py
• User.id uniqueness constraint added to Neo4j schema

Step 4 — Explore service extensions (explore/)

• JWT verification via stdlib HMAC-SHA256; JWT_SECRET_KEY is optional (existing endpoints unaffected)
• New authenticated endpoints:
  • GET /api/user/collection — paginated COLLECTED releases with artist/label
  • GET /api/user/wantlist — paginated WANTS releases
  • GET /api/user/recommendations — releases by top-collected artists not yet owned
  • GET /api/user/collection/stats — breakdown by genre, decade, and label
  • GET /api/user/status?ids=1,2,3 — returns in_collection/in_wantlist flags per release ID (optional auth; defaults to false if unauthenticated)
• explore/user_queries.py — all Neo4j Cypher for personalization (pure Neo4j, no new dependencies)
• jwt_secret_key optional field added to ExploreConfig

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Notes

• No new Python packages were added to uv.lock — all crypto uses Python stdlib, all other deps were already present
• JWT secret must match across auth, collector, and explore services (set via JWT_SECRET_KEY env var); the dev default is set in docker-compose.yml with a prominent warning
• Steps build sequentially: auth → OAuth → collector → explore; PRs should be merged in that order

[SimplicityGuy]

@claude update the title and description of #66.

[claude]

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Updating PR/Issue #66

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  --title "feat: Discogs user integration — authenticate, sync collection & wantlist" \
  --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Overview

Implements Discogs user integration for discogsography: users create an account, connect their Discogs profile via OAuth 1.0a, then sync their personal collection and wantlist to both Neo4j and PostgreSQL.

Closes #60.

## Changes

This PR is the umbrella for four sub-tasks implemented across separate branches:

| Step | Issue | Branch | What it adds |
|------|-------|--------|--------------|
| 1 | #56 | `claude/issue-56-auth-user-accounts` | Auth microservice — register/login/JWT, users + oauth_tokens tables |
| 2 | #57 | `claude/issue-57-discogs-oauth` | Discogs OAuth 1.0a OOB flow, Redis state store, admin config |
| 3 | #58 | `claude/issue-58-collector-service` | Collector microservice — Celery sync, PostgreSQL + Neo4j upserts |
| 4 | #59 | `claude/issue-59-explore-extensions` | Explore extensions — personalized endpoints, collection/wantlist/recommendations |

## Sub-task PRs

Merge in order:
1. #56 — Auth microservice
2. #57 — Discogs OAuth 1.0a
3. #58 — Collector microservice
4. #59 — Explore extensions

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