Idea for enhanced search

[rgbbytes]

Let's say hypothetically you wanted the most bang for your buck when shopping for capacitors. You could sort DigiKey parametricly by cost or capacitance, but why not both? Through an text cleaner, parameters could be divided, multiplied, squared, etc. to sort by a complex parameter. I could and want to help with this, but before I start, I want to know if you have any objections or concerns. I'm not sure how network and server intensive this may end up being.

[alkgrove]

I would start here: https://developer.digikey.com/ and take the get started -> explore our APIs. Once the software has the OATH2 token, you would use one of these APIs. I used the product information one for partlocater.
They have improved their API and have added batch search so that the network load is decreased. I have a function which updates excel spreadsheet but it can easily hit their limit of part searches. Originally they had no limit but now they do. You wont hit a network limit before you hit their limit.