(2020-04-24, 19:22)Orion Pobursky Wrote: I'm not really interested in reinventing the wheel. BL, Rebrickable, BrickOwl, even Peeron have extensive set inventory databases. Most of them have API that make querying them easy. What I like about Rebrickable, and why I want to support them, is that they also have a MOC inventory side. I'd rather the bulk of the cross referencing be done by others (e.g. Rebrickable) and "fill in the gaps" when those services are unable (or unwilling) to work with us. Basically, our database would be small and consist of edge cases.
Yep, I'm right there with you. The only issues I would be thinking of for this are the little systematic quirks—basically, the automatic file clean-up I have to do now with each PBG I export. The cheese slopes thing is in that category: RB has them in their part listings correctly as 54200, but for some reason it always exports them with the alias number 63290 instead.