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



On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On May 7, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Windell H. Oskay wrote:
>>>
>> 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.

I thought it might be screen-scraping since the displayed format looks
similar to the format on the distributor's site.

(* jcl *)


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