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. -- Felipe De la Puente Christen Mobile Phone : +56 9 93199807 MSN/GTalk : fdelapue...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
