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

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 7, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Windell H. Oskay 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.

  Not necessarily; they could just be "screen-scraping", parsing the  
returned HTML.  It can be a bitch to do, but it's pretty common.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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