KeyError: 'collection_count'

[SatanicMechanic]

Retrieving album links from user [example]’s collection.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/bandcamp-downloader-master/./bandcamp-downloader.py", line 348, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/bandcamp-downloader-master/./bandcamp-downloader.py", line 156, in main
    links = get_download_links_for_user(args.username)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/bandcamp-downloader-master/./bandcamp-downloader.py", line 208, in get_download_links_for_user
    'collection_count' : data['collection_count'],
                         ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'collection_count'

Might be some oddity on my end:

• named bc account is a fan account, but it does have an artist account connected
• MacOS 14.1 beta
• python noob

Help appreciated!

[MasterRee]

Thanks for making this script. I just saw your post in YCombinator about the BC ownership change and I was really hoping this would work as I have a fairly large collection. Unfortunately, I'm seeing the same issue. Here is my command and the output:

bandcamp-downloader.py --browser firefox --directory ~/Desktop/Bandcamp\ Collection -f flac "User Name"
Retrieving album links from user [User Name]'s collection.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/macOSuser/.local/bin/bandcamp-downloader.py", line 348, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/Users/macOSuser/.local/bin/bandcamp-downloader.py", line 156, in main
    links = get_download_links_for_user(args.username)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/macOSuser/.local/bin/bandcamp-downloader.py", line 208, in get_download_links_for_user
    'collection_count' : data['collection_count'],
                         ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A few points to note:

• macOS 14 on an ARM Mac
• My BC user name has a space in it. --I tried using the BC email address instead of the user name and tried quoting both email and user. I also tried changing the user name on BC to one without a space, then logging out and back in to BC before running the script again. The error still occurred.

[easlice]

Just to confirm for both of you (but especially you @MasterRee ), the username that you are putting in is the string that shows up at the end of the URL for your collection page?

For example, bandcamp.com/user_name would be user_name (the 'username' is basically used to create that URL, and putting something in other than that is often what creates this error)

[SatanicMechanic]

That was it! Thank you! I had been thinking of that name as a 'display name' because it is different from what I use to login.

[easlice]

Glad to hear that was it for you. I need to make it actually report this kind of suggestion when that error happens. I've got that in another big update I'm working on but it might be good to get it in sooner rather than later.

[MasterRee]

Thanks! That was it and in the actual URL there was no space in the username, so that was the reason for the error. Still mid download, but it looks to be working perfectly. I really appreciate you making this tool as it is saving me a lot of time and effort.

[SatanicMechanic]

Pardon the chatter but @MasterRee I'm still searching for a way to unzip these in batch - do you have any ideas?

[MasterRee]

I'm happy to help, but this is off topic, so I don't want to spam easlice with notices unrelated to this issue, so if this doesn't answer your question I would suggest doing a quick Google search on batch compression and decompression of ZIP files on macOS. There are many options.

Archive Utility is macOS's native tool for compression and decompression in Finder. If you select all the zip files in Finder, you can do a secondary click and select "Open" and it will decompress all of them. You can even set your preferences in Archive Utility first and it will automatically trash the ZIP files after they are decompressed.

Another option (and my personal choice) is Keka (https://www.keka.io/en/). A free tool for macOS (or very inexpensive if you get it through the Mac App Store to support the developer). It has more options than the native utility including support for 7zip. I hope that helps and sorry again easlice for the chatter.

[SatanicMechanic]

thanks!