I looked up the etymology of "there's more than one way to skin a cat". According to Stack Exchange, it comes from a book titled "Money Diggers" from the 1840s, and yep, kind of gruesome.

For me it's all about problem solving. And for this one, I had to skin the cat.

As Heard on Radio Soulwax Part 2 is an absolute banger of a mix bashed out by David and Stephen Dewaele AKA 2ManyDJs. They are part of the Soulwax clan.

Back to my brain: I thought to myself what would it cost to buy every single vinyl to play this set? And off to the races we went.

How do we do this? Easy. Use the Discogs API. Nope. They don't expose the median value. This is the number that I wanted. Their API exposes the lowest value only. Boo.

Okay. Scrape Discogs. Nope. They are front running Cloudflare and the bot protection is second to none. Boo again.

So I had a thought: screenshot each page and extract the median value using OCR. Bingo. Use Open AI to extract the data into a JSON file and serve it up.

There's always more than one way to skin a cat.

You're welcome.