bricklink-tools

A collection of CLI tools for manipulating and exporting Bricklink parts lists

Supported Operations

missing-parts

Searches through a PartList of potentially unowned parts, and attempts to see if you've already got those parts available in the owned parts lists. Think of it like a right excluding join in SQL land. This is especially handy when you've made changes to an existing model and want to easily figure out exactly which parts are new.

CLI Conditions

• The --missing-parts flag is present
• One or more --owned-parts-list-path options pointing to your part list .csv file
• One --unowned-parts-list-path option pointing to the part list .csv file
• The --save-path option specifying where you want to save the output .csv file to
• The --save-format option specifying what flavor of output you'd like.

merge

Merges the given owned and unowned PartsLists together, returning a single one containing all of the parts contained in each individual PartsList.

CLI Conditions

• The --merge flag is present

• Zero or more --owned-parts-list-path options pointing to your part list .csv file

• Zero or more --unowned-parts-list-path options pointing to your part list .csv file

  Note: you need at least one valid owned or unowned parts list path (and ideally two or more) for the merge to complete successfully.

• The --save-path option specifying where you want to save the output .csv file to

• The --save-format option specifying what flavor of output you'd like.

intersection

Performs an intersection on all provided PartsLists, regardless of them being owned or unowned. It then returns a single PartsList containing only the parts shared between all of the input PartsLists.

CLI Conditions

• The --intersection flag is present

• Zero or more --owned-parts-list-path options pointing to your part list .csv file

• Zero or more --unowned-parts-list-path options pointing to your part list .csv file

  Note: you need at least one valid owned and/or unowned parts list path (and ideally two or more) for the intersection to complete successfully.

• The --save-path option specifying where you want to save the output .csv file to

• The --save-format option specifying what flavor of output you'd like.

Commands

• --missing-parts - A flag to choose to perform a check for missing parts, wherein a single unowned-parts-list is compared to one or more owned-parts-lists to find missing pieces. See the missing-parts section above for more details.

• --merge - A flag to choose to merge all provided owned-parts-list-path and unowned-parts-list-path parts lists together into a singular list of parts.

• --owned-parts-list-path, -o - A path to a Bricklink parts list .csv file representing parts that you own. This option can be used multiple times.

• --unowned-parts-list-path, -u - A path to a Bricklink parts list .csv file representing parts that you do not own. This option can be used multiple times.

• --any-color, -a - Defines a certain color in the PartsList to be changed over to the any color recognized by Bricklink and Rebrickable, which in turn selects the cheapest parts in any available color. For a list of all current colors, see Rebrickable's color guide. Specifically, see the text in the "Bricklink" column, between the single quotes. Note that this mapping happens after all other commands have completed, so the output PartsList will have the specified colors mapped to the any color. This option can be used multiple times, for multiple colors that need to be mapped to the any color.

• --save-path, -s - The path to export manipulated parts list data to

• --save-format, -f - The format to export manipulated parts list data in, acceptable values include:

  • csv
  • simple-csv

  Note that the csv option will output a .csv file with the Bricklink parts list headers that were fed into it, while a simple-csv will output a simplified version with only the "part", "color", and "quantity" headers and values. The simpler version is suitable for uploading into a Rebrickable parts list, for example. Please note that if you do intend to import into Rebrickable, that you must set the "External Source" option to be "BrickLink", instead of the default "Rebrickable (no conversion)" option.