On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Dave McGuire <mcgu...@neurotica.com> 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 *) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user