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AeybelV / PartPal

A tool for generating, optimizing, management, and sharing of Bills of Materials (BOMs). Integrates with EDA tools to streamline component sourcing and assembly workflows.
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Mouser API #5

Closed AeybelV closed 23 hours ago

AeybelV commented 4 weeks ago

Register and setup API access for Mouser, otherwise resort to web scraping. Should be able to interact with Mouser to query for part data and prices. As well as generate carts and get shipping data.

AeybelV commented 3 weeks ago

Mouser provides a variety of API's for searching and order management as found here.

To access this API, you must put in an application to gain API access. If the application was self hosted on the cloud, we could store our own API key securely there. However because the poorpartpal frontend can be run locally, it would mean individuals would need to get their own mouser API key. This can be a hassle, also not sure as to how open Mouser would be to accepting those applications?

Safest bet is to do webscraping, no need to worry about API keys. If the project gets traction and the ambitious goals of having a deployed webapp work out, then might invest in a mouser API key.