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@Superkalle If all goes well I should have a basic prototype pieced together in the next few days, hopefully that will give you an idea of what it is I am hoping to do. But simply put, I'm attempting to build a page that allows an anonymous user to upload a LXF, or LXFML file and get a Wanted List XML file in return. Most of the problems you mentioned I have considered, but I haven't devised a good working solution for any of them just yet. As for the maintenance, I should be able to automate most of it, except for possibly the updates to LDD. Maybe I'll just focus on these four questions for now: Is the peeron color list actively maintained? The Bricklink Part and Color Code download contains nearly 22,000 parts. Is this a complete list of parts available in their database? Do you know of a simple way to obtain alternate item numbers from Bricklink in bulk? I'd rather not resort to scraping their entire site. I have downloaded LDD manager but as I am on a Mac I can't run it. Is the mdb file something that anybody could open if they had MS Access? And finally, I fear I may be at risk of hijacking this thread. Would this topic be better suited elsewhere? Thanks for the insight.

Multi-coloured what now? I can't for the life of me think of an example, I have to assume those are not single pieces of ABS. Oddly enough, it's because transposing to Bricklink is such a nightmare that I started this project. It's so frustrating to spend and hour building something in LDD only to spend another 4 or 5 hours trying to part it out. This initially started off as a script for my own benefit, then I thought that I could probably make a page of this so that others might benefit from it too. Sadly I've never run LDD Manager because I don't have a Windows machine.

@Superkalle I've started a project to allow people to upload an lxf file to a site and have it generate a BL wanted list, but I'm running into complications mapping LDD's designID with BL's Item No (LDD 50746 to BL 54200 for example) not to mention decorations and assemblies. I gather you have a fairly solid handle on how this works, I thought I might seek your input.