Author: Jason Bryer, Ph.D. jason@bryer.org
Website: https://jbryer.github.io/brickset/
This package provides functions to access data about LEGO sets from the Brickset website. The package also contains a data.frame with all LEGO sets (n = 20,420) from 1970 through 2024. This data set was created using the getSets function and it is recommended that you use this data frame to reduce the number of API calls. See the build.R script for how the data frame was created. Information about the variables is included below.
Installation
You can download from CRAN using:
install.packages('brickset')Or the latest development version using the remotes package:
remotes::install_github('jbryer/brickset')Brickset API
To use the Brickset API, you must first create a Brickset account and request an API key. The full Brickset API documentation is available here: https://brickset.com/article/52664/api-version-3-documentation
Most of the functions require a Brickset username, password, and API key. You can pass these as parameters, or you can set these options:
options(brickset_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY',
brickset_username = 'YOUR_USERNAME',
brickset_password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD')The checkKey function will verify that your API key is valid:
brickset::checkKey()
#> [1] TRUEYou can check your API usage with the getKeyUsageStats function.
brickset::getKeyUsageStats()
#> dateStamp count
#> 1 2025-01-21T00:00:00Z 56The getSets function returns all LEGO sets from the given year.
sets2021 <- brickset::getSets(2021)
head(sets2021, n = 3)
#> setID number numberVariant name year theme themeGroup
#> 1 31026 10278 1 Police Station 2021 Icons Model making
#> 2 31754 10279 1 Volkswagen T2 Camper Van 2021 Icons Model making
#> 3 31025 10280 1 Flower Bouquet 2021 Icons Model making
#> subtheme category released pieces minifigs
#> 1 Modular Buildings Collection Normal TRUE 2923 5
#> 2 Vehicles Normal TRUE 2207 NA
#> 3 Botanical Collection Normal TRUE 756 NA
#> bricksetURL rating reviewCount packagingType
#> 1 https://brickset.com/sets/10278-1 4.3 4 Box
#> 2 https://brickset.com/sets/10279-1 4.0 0 Box
#> 3 https://brickset.com/sets/10280-1 4.1 3 Box
#> availability agerange_min
#> 1 LEGO exclusive 18
#> 2 LEGO exclusive 18
#> 3 Retail 18
#> thumbnailURL
#> 1 https://images.brickset.com/sets/small/10278-1.jpg
#> 2 https://images.brickset.com/sets/small/10279-1.jpg
#> 3 https://images.brickset.com/sets/small/10280-1.jpg
#> imageURL US_retailPrice
#> 1 https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10278-1.jpg 199.99
#> 2 https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10279-1.jpg 179.99
#> 3 https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10280-1.jpg 59.99
#> US_dateFirstAvailable US_dateLastAvailable UK_retailPrice
#> 1 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z 2024-02-05T00:00:00Z 169.99
#> 2 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z 2022-11-12T00:00:00Z 139.99
#> 3 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z <NA> 54.99
#> UK_dateFirstAvailable UK_dateLastAvailable CA_retailPrice
#> 1 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z 2024-01-12T00:00:00Z 269.99
#> 2 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z 249.99
#> 3 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z <NA> 79.99
#> CA_dateFirstAvailable CA_dateLastAvailable DE_retailPrice
#> 1 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z 2024-02-05T00:00:00Z 199.99
#> 2 2021-08-03T00:00:00Z 2022-11-12T00:00:00Z 159.99
#> 3 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z <NA> 59.99
#> DE_dateFirstAvailable DE_dateLastAvailable height width depth weight
#> 1 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z 2024-02-19T00:00:00Z 47.6 57.7 11.8 4.012
#> 2 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z 37.4 57.8 11.2 2.945
#> 3 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z <NA> 38.2 26.2 7.1 0.760The getReviews function will return all reviews for a given set.
reviews29830 <- brickset::getReviews(29830)
names(reviews29830)
#> [1] "author" "datePosted" "title"
#> [4] "review" "HTML" "overall"
#> [7] "parts" "buildingExperience" "playability"
#> [10] "valueForMoney"The getThemes and getSubthemes returns information about LEGO themes.
getThemes() |> head(n = 3)
#> theme setCount subthemeCount yearFrom yearTo
#> 1 4 Juniors 24 5 2003 2004
#> 2 Action Wheelers 9 0 2000 2001
#> 3 Advanced models 35 12 2000 2012
getSubthemes('Toy Story')
#> theme subtheme setCount yearFrom yearTo
#> 1 Toy Story Buildable Figures 2 2010 2010
#> 2 Toy Story Original Film 2 2010 2010
#> 3 Toy Story Toy Story 2 3 2010 2010
#> 4 Toy Story Toy Story 3 8 2010 2010
getYears('Toy Story')
#> theme year setCount
#> 1 Toy Story 2010 15The getInstructions will return a table with the URLs to the building instructions.
instructions <- getInstructions(setID = 29830)
instructions
#> URL
#> 1 https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/product.bi.core.pdf/6313846.pdf
#> 2 https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/product.bi.core.pdf/6313848.pdf
#> 3 https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/product.bi.core.pdf/6313849.pdf
#> 4 https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/product.bi.core.pdf/6313850.pdf
#> description
#> 1 BI 3103, 112+4/65+200G, 10270 V29 1/2
#> 2 BI 3103, 96+4/65+200G,10270 V29 2/2
#> 3 BI 3103, 112+4/65+200G, V39/142 1/2
#> 4 BI 3103, 96+4/65+200G, V39/142 2/2
legosets Dataset
The legosets data frame contains all LEGO sets (n = 20,420) from 1970 through 2024.
data("legosets", package = "brickset")
ggplot(legosets, aes(x = year)) + geom_bar() +
ggtitle('Number of LEGO sets by year') +
xlab('Year') + ylab('Number of LEGO Sets')
ggplot(legosets, aes(x = pieces, y = US_retailPrice)) +
geom_point() +
ggtitle('Cost of LEGO sets by number of pieces') +
xlab('Number of LEGO pieces') + ylab('US Retail Price (dollars)')
The variables in the legosets data frame are:
| Type | Unique_Values | |
|---|---|---|
| setID | integer | 20420 |
| number | character | 18958 |
| numberVariant | integer | 25 |
| name | character | 17057 |
| year | integer | 55 |
| theme | character | 163 |
| themeGroup | character | 17 |
| subtheme | character | 1000 |
| category | character | 7 |
| released | logical | 2 |
| pieces | integer | 1543 |
| minifigs | integer | 34 |
| bricksetURL | character | 20420 |
| rating | numeric | 29 |
| reviewCount | integer | 64 |
| packagingType | character | 19 |
| availability | character | 11 |
| agerange_min | integer | 18 |
| thumbnailURL | character | 19365 |
| imageURL | character | 19365 |
| US_retailPrice | numeric | 173 |
| US_dateFirstAvailable | Date | 1090 |
| US_dateLastAvailable | Date | 2324 |
| UK_retailPrice | numeric | 224 |
| UK_dateFirstAvailable | Date | 1019 |
| UK_dateLastAvailable | Date | 2224 |
| CA_retailPrice | numeric | 188 |
| CA_dateFirstAvailable | Date | 851 |
| CA_dateLastAvailable | Date | 2005 |
| DE_retailPrice | numeric | 179 |
| DE_dateFirstAvailable | Date | 607 |
| DE_dateLastAvailable | Date | 1402 |
| height | numeric | 264 |
| width | numeric | 317 |
| depth | numeric | 307 |
| weight | numeric | 1192 |
Code of Conduct
Please note that the brickset project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.