kicad-vault 0.0.2

A program to manage kicad BOMs, with vendor integration.

Kicad Vault is a Python based part management systems. It will automatically hunt for KiCad projects and generate a webserver highlighting components, their current prices and availability. It is currently only available with digikey integration. I've pared down the software, it simply will create a CSV file with prices of parts. In the future I will expand it to have full web server functionality.

Getting setup

Requires KiCad 7.0+ for the kicad-cli export utility. This should come native in Linux/OSX, in Windows you need to make sure you have access to the app though the command line.

Start here to get some digikey api credentials.

Install and setup environment variables. Leave this in your .bashrc. If you're using Windows you need to add these to your environment variables.

export DIGIKEY_CLIENT_ID="client_id"
export DIGIKEY_CLIENT_SECRET'="client_secret"

Running

pip install kicad-vault
kicad-vault <your_file>.kicad_sch --field MPN

Where "MPN" is the field in KiCad where you give the part number.