Tellico 3.4 is available, with several new features, updated data sources, bug fixes and build changes. I’m excited about this release. It pulls together a few different things that I’d been working on. I’ve got a few more ideas about
Colnect Data Source Added
Starting in version 3.3, Tellico will be able to search Colnect, an online community for collectibles providing personal collection management. As of right now, Tellico can search for coin information only. Colnect has information in a variety of languages. Tellico
Searching Amazon may not work after March 9, 2020
Amazon search will stop working in previous and current versions of Tellico on or after March 9, 2020. Tellico has been using their Product Advertising API v4, and they’re going to shutdown v4 down in favor of v5. There’s a
Adding A Data Source
I’ve gotten a few emails and seen at least one forum post with questions about adding new data sources to Tellico. Here’s a quick step-by-step tutorial.
Search the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
In order to search the ADS from Tellico, you can use a script that I just uploaded to kde-files.org. Download the script, and then add a new external data source in Tellico with the settings as shown below. Change the
DVDFr Data Source Added
A data source for searching DVDFr.com has been added to Tellico. DVDFr is a French movie site with a nice XML API for performing queries, which made adding the code very simple. Sites with existing APIs are easy to add
Freebase and Open Library Data Sources Added
Two additional data sources have been added to Tellico. Freebase is a generalized database of just about any structured data anyone can add. Tellico can search Freebase for books, comic books, movies, music, video games, and board games. Open Library
MusicBrainz and TheMovieDB Data Sources Added
Two new data sources have been added to Tellico. MusicBrainz provides data about music and TheMovieDB provides movie information.
Access using Wine.com API has been added
Wine.com recently made available an interface for searching their wine database. As you can see from the screenshot, Tellico will support searching Wine.com in the next release.
Searching Amazon no longer works for Tellico 1.3.x
Amazon.com has changed their data API to require that all searches be signed with a secret key, unique to each user. Tellico 2.0 for KDE4 supports the new method. However, most older versions (i.e. all versions of Tellico prior to