Author:  hpoort  Posted:  Feb 11, 2024 03:38  Subject:  Re: Has anyone counted the number of variations?  Viewed:  56 times  Topic:  Catalog Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card hpoort (416) Location:  Netherlands, Groningen Member Since Contact Type Status Oct 11, 2014 Buyer

In Catalog, Kuboteka writes:    Who knows how to find out the number of types of parts based on color for each Bricklink category? Roughly speaking, there are 100 articles in the category, each of which exists in a certain number of colors. How can I find out the total number of unique SKU-color combinations for a category? Thank you! That all depends on how you define 'exists'. The Bricklink catalogue lists 'known' meaning that the part appears in sets in that colour. You could download the catalog to find out all part numbers, but that would not tell you all the known colours. See https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp You could download the PCC catalog to find out all combinations that we know a PCC for, but that would not tell you the known colours of older parts nor the part that we do not know the PCC for. When you use Studio, you could consult the downloaded BricklinkMetaData that Studio caches. This includes the price and colour availability for the parts known to Studio. Finally, you could go the other way round and start with the colour (https://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp) and there the number of distinct known or available parts for each colour is listed.

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Has anyone counted the number of variations? - Kuboteka (17320)

Who knows how to find out the number of types of parts based on color for each Bricklink category? Roughly speaking, there are 100 articles in the category, each of which exists [...] (4 months ago, Feb 11, 2024, to Catalog)

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