Batch-edit entities

[kellnerd]

Collection of ideas for my Batch-edit release groups userscript.

Please be aware that I do not recommend you to use the script in its current version because the usage is not self-explanatory and it is possible to cause a lot of damage with it!

Overall goal: Extend the script from release groups to (all) other entities, especially releases

Unstructured notes

• Rate limiter (requests per second and/or pending requests)
• Safely extract edit source data for all entity types. Attention, the embedding has been changed on test.mb.org! (using ws/js for simplicity and compatibility with *.mb.org)
• Extract error messages from the asynchronously fetched result pages and display them
• Abort unnecessary page loads after redirects (for successful edits)
• Search and replace with RegEx and/or conditions (e.g. language == eng => script = latin)
• Validate edit data and preview non-trivial changes
• Select-menu and textbox based UI
  • Select for Field & Action (Set to, Condition, Search & Replace), Input for Search/Condition & Replace/Value
  • Restrict values for certain fields with select (e.g. RG types, multi-select for secondary types)
  • Button to add/remove actions/conditions
  • Allow JSON for advanced fields (e.g. artist credits, arrays) until there is a better solution
• Hidden feature: Code injection, e.g. (data) => (data.name + data.comment), using eval() or safer alternatives?
• Automatically generate a description for the edit note ("Set x to y if z", MB Batch-edit 2021.m.d on mb.org/artist/mbid)
• Propagate recording name to selected tracks (make name of current entity available as variable?)
  • Related idea: Use recording titles as track titles (from inside the release editor)