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hildogjr / KiCost

Build cost spreadsheet for a KiCad project.
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Rapid Electronics #424

Open alicephilippa opened 3 years ago

alicephilippa commented 3 years ago

Is it possible for Rapid Electronics (https://www.rapidonline.com/) and/or CPC (https://cpc.farnell.com/) to be added to the list of suppliers?

KiCost 1.1.4 Windows 10 KiCad 5.1.7-1

hildogjr commented 3 years ago

Yes, sure.

Two approaches can be taken:

  1. The default configuration of KiCost rely on kicost/distributors/api_partinfo_kitspace.py web service. If this service already aggregate the two distributors information you just need to add them to lines 89 (list of distributors) and 106 (dict of translation: user name - server name);
  2. Develop the own api_*.py file for each distributor and put it on distributors folder;
  3. If the web site doesn't have a API access, a scrap_*.py file could be written for this function.
set-soft commented 3 years ago

They aren't listed as supported by Octopart:

https://octopart.com/api/v4/values#sellers https://octopart.com/distributors

hildogjr commented 3 years ago

@alicephilippa, do these websites have it own API system for requests? I didn't find this information.