Rapid Electronics

[alicephilippa]

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]

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]

They aren't listed as supported by Octopart:

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

[hildogjr]

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