kicost-digikey-api-v4 0.1.5

KiCost plugin for the Digikey PartSearch API

KiCost plug-in for Digi-Key API

This is an experimental plug-in to allow KiCost to do native Digi-Key API requests.

The plug-in is based on the Python Client for Digikey API by Peter Oostewechel.

I'm not using the original project as a module because it pulls some rare dependencies.

The license is GPL v3 as the original work.

Quickstart

• Register at Digi-Key. You need a valid user in order to register an application and in order to authenticate.
• Go to the API portal: Digi-Key API Solutions
• Login to Digi-Key from the API portal
• Create an organization
• Choose the Production Apps operation
• Create a production app
  • Choose a Production App name
  • Use https://localhost:8139/digikey_callback for the OAuth Callback. So you can authorize the use of the app.
  • Give a description
  • Enable the Product Information API
  • Click Add production app
• Now select your newly created Production App
• In the Credential section enable the options to show the Client ID and Client Secret
• Copy these values to a file named config.txt containing:

DIGIKEY_CLIENT_ID = Client_ID_Value_for_your_app
DIGIKEY_CLIENT_SECRET = Client_Secret_Value_for_your_app

• Create a folder ~/.config/kicost_digikey_api_v4
• Store the config.txt file
• Now install the plug-in:
  • Clone the git repo somewhere using git clone https://github.com/set-soft/kicost-digikey-api-v4.git
  • Enter to kicost-digikey-api-v4
  • Install it using pip3 install -e .
• Now test the plug-in:
  • run python3 test_production.py
  • A browser window will pop-up asking to login to Digi-Key. Login.
  • Choose the allow option to enable the token.
  • Now you'll load a local page, allow it.
  • Now the token is stored on disk and you won't need to confirm it for months.
  • You should get the information for Digi-Key part 296-6501-6-ND