How to Set Up discdogs Alerts for Your Discogs Wantlist

discdogs sends you an email or Telegram alert within seconds when a record on your Discogs wantlist goes on sale. Setup takes under a minute and requires only a Discogs account — you log in through Discogs' official OAuth, and discdogs never sees or stores your credentials. You can revoke access at any time. There are two ways to use it: a web app (desktop and mobile) that imports your wantlist automatically, or a Chrome extension that adds alert controls directly onto Discogs' own wantlist and release pages.

Before you start

• A Discogs account with at least one item on your wantlist.
• A notification channel: an email address, or a Telegram account if you prefer alerts there.
• For the extension route, a desktop Chrome browser. For the web app route, any modern desktop or mobile browser.

Step 1: Log in with your Discogs account

discdogs is a registered Discogs application and uses the official Discogs OAuth API. Click Sign in with Discogs on the discdogs site and approve the connection on Discogs' side.

What happens next depends on which route you chose:

Either way, you manage everything from inside Discogs or from the discdogs dashboard; no manual list-building is required.

Step 2: Pick releases and set your filters

Choose the releases you want to be notified about. If you want tighter control over which listings trigger an alert, set filters on:

• Maximum price
• Media and sleeve condition
• Minimum seller rating
• Shipping regions
• Automatic duplicate removal

The duplicate removal option matters if you'd otherwise get repeated pings for the same listing. The condition and seller-rating filters are what keep a "VG+" copy from a low-rated seller out of your inbox when you only want clean copies from reputable sellers.

Step 3: Choose how you get notified

Alerts arrive in real time — discdogs scans the Discogs marketplace continuously and notifies you within seconds of a new matching listing. Pick one or both delivery channels:

• Email
• Telegram

Once set, you're done. The example alert format shown on the site looks like this:

Discdogs · 2m ago
We found a new price for Denym – Beauty (Vinyl, 12")
• Price: 90€
• Media: VG+ • Sleeve: VG+

Verifying it works

Set one alert on a release you know is actively traded, with filters loose enough that a listing is likely to appear soon. When a matching listing shows up on Discogs, you should receive the alert within seconds. If nothing arrives, check the obvious first: that the release is actually on your wantlist, that your filters aren't excluding every listing (a maximum price set below market is the usual culprit), and that your email or Telegram channel is correctly configured.

Common snags

• Too many alerts. Loosen nothing — tighten instead. Add a maximum price, a minimum condition, and a seller-rating floor, and turn on duplicate removal.
• Alerts that never fire. Your filters are probably too strict. A max price below the going rate, or a condition requirement higher than what's typically listed, will silence an alert entirely.
• Want to stop. Access can be revoked from your Discogs account settings at any time, since discdogs holds no credentials of its own.

Which route should you pick?

Use the web app if you want to manage alerts from your phone as well as your desktop, or if you'd rather work from a dedicated dashboard with advanced filters. Use the Chrome extension if you spend most of your Discogs time on desktop and prefer to stay inside Discogs' own interface — it layers alert controls onto the wantlist and release pages you already use, with no separate dashboard to visit.