User talk:Butterwaffle

octopart number - I have had a hard time locating the octopart numbers in the past, how did you do it? --Ameyer 23:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


 * The OctoPart API docs for part search: have an example that looks like this:

http://octopart.com/api/v2/parts/search?q=resistor
 * I replaced "resistor" with the part number I'm interested in to get something like this (for an lm386):

http://octopart.com/api/v2/parts/search?q=lm386
 * paste it into my browser (FireFox) and look for the "uid" JSON tags in the results. You may get more than one but the description JSON tags can be used to weedle out the exact variant of interest. It would be really cool if the octopart XML tag on bildr would take several part ID attributes and display availability for variants. --Butterwaffle

Ok... =) - That's exactly what I had done.

I was going to allow you to input the part names, then have a way to select the one you want.

Dont know if you would be interested, but the plugin is totally open for anyone to work on. --Ameyer 02:04, 15 June 2010 (UTC)