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JonathanVusich / pcpartpicker

This is an unofficial API for the website pcpartpicker.com.
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Is there a way to add Part Numbers (Part #) to the items? #56

Open Fritzzin opened 3 years ago

Fritzzin commented 3 years ago

Wondering if there's a way to add Part Numbers for the next time you update the snapshot of the data base. That would make the API just as helpful and useful.

JonathanVusich commented 3 years ago

What use case does this enable? This would require visiting every single product page on PCPartPicker, which would exponentially increase the time to build a database snapshot.

Fritzzin commented 3 years ago

Right now I'm working on reports for some companies. All of these are done through excel(spreadsheet) files. The problem is that right now, I have to do them all manually, getting the part# that is given to me, searching through the internet and filling the parameters with the results. If the API has the part#, I would be able to automatically fill all parameters based on the answer from the API.

I've seen you also made a scraper and the code is on your github. Maybe with your help, I could just add the part# so I can build a database snapshot on my system. That would also be REALLY helpful if it's too much of a bother (or too demanding on your system/server) to do it on the main API.

JonathanVusich commented 3 years ago

I don't have much extra bandwidth right now, so it's unlikely I'll get to this in the near future. I would be willing to guide you if you want to take a crack at it though.

Fritzzin commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the offer. If there's any way you can contact me directly, so maybe we can close the issue. Or, if you'd prefer, you can give me a step-by-step on how to do it here, just in case someone wanna make a change again in the future.