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Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 09:49 -0700, Windell H. Oskay wrote:
> On May 7, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote:
> 
> > I think there's not much to do to implement the service. In fact the
> > service is already there, what's lacking is a proper interface to let
> > 3rd party software get the search results without accesing the website
> > through a browser. It could even be there already in the case of
> > digikey, but I'm not that familiar with these search-bar plugins, and
> > haven't had the time to check the code(?) for info to implement the
> > searches.
> 
> Interesting. 
> 
> I wonder how third-part component search services (like findchips.com and octopart) presently search the distributors.  Does anyone know?   There must be some sort of API that the distributors are providing them, at least privately. 

Well, now that I see the url generated by the Digikey toolbar there's
not much to request so far. 

This is a request for keyword=AT91SAM9G45 (leadfree, rohs and instock
activated)
 
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?Keywords=at91sam9g45&site=us&lang=en&stock=1&pbfree=1&rohs=1&WT.mc_id=tbr_srch&WT.mc_ev=click

It's pretty clear.

Of course this is just an initial approach, and is far from a standard
search pattern for every supplier, but may be would be useful to get the
data parsing results from this king of searches.

By the way, here's the Geolocation API I mentioned before. Of course the
results are much simpler in this case since the answer is always the
same.

http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php

Best Regards, Felipe.

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Felipe De la Puente Christen
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