Build cost spreadsheet for a KiCad project.
Project description
KiCost is intended to be run as a script for generating part-cost spreadsheets for circuit boards developed with KiCad.
Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://kicost.readthedocs.org.
Features
Processes the BOM XML file from your KiCad schematic to create a part-cost spreadsheet by scraping the web sites of several popular distributors for price and inventory data. (You can also enter your own quantity-adjusted pricing data for specialized parts or those not found at the supported distributors.)
The spreadsheet contains quantity-adjusted pricing from each distributor for individual parts and the total board.
Enter the number of boards to be built in a spreadsheet cell and all the pricing for the total board and individual parts is updated.
The spreadsheet also shows the current inventory on-hand for each part at each distributor.
Enter the quantity of each part that you want to purchase from each distributor and lists of part numbers and quantities will appear in formats that you can cut-and-paste directly into the website ordering page of each distributor.
History
0.1.15 (2016-01-10)
Fixed exception caused when indexing with ‘manf#’ on components that didn’t have that field defined.
Replaced custom debug_print() with logging module.
0.1.14 (2015-12-31)
When scraping a Digi-Key product list page, use both the manfufacturer’s AND Digi-Key’s number to select the closest match to the part number.
0.1.13 (2015-12-29)
‘kicost:’ can be prepended to schematic field labels to distinguish them from other app fields.
Custom prices and documentation links can now be added to parts in the schematic.
Web-scraping for part data is sped up using parallel processes.
0.1.12 (2015-12-03)
Following the IP address mouser with redirect you to the nearest locale match, so the price will be in Euro if you are in Europe and the price decimal can be a comma.
0.1.11 (2015-12-02)
Changed BOARD_COST field to UNIT_COST.
Changed formatting of UNIT_COST field to make use monetary units.
Changed format of debug messages.
0.1.10 (2015-10-08)
Pushed lxml requirement back to 3.3.3 so linux mint would have fewer problems trying to install.
0.1.9 (2015-09-26)
Fixed exception caused by Digi-Key part with ‘call’ as an entry in a part’s price list.
Fixed extraction of part quantities in Mouser web pages.
Added randomly-selected user-agent strings so sites might be less likely to block scraping.
Added ghost.py code for getting around Javascript challenge pages (currently inactive).
0.1.8 (2015-09-17)
Added missing requirements for future and lxml packages.
0.1.7 (2015-08-26)
KiCost now runs under both Python 2.7.6 and 3.4.
0.1.6 (2015-08-26)
Mouser changed their HTML page format, so I changed their web scraper.
0.1.5 (2015-07-25)
Corrected entrypoint in __main__.py.
0.1.4 (2015-07-09)
Added conditional formatting to indicate which distributor had the best price for a particular part.
Fixed calc of min unit price so it wouldn’t be affected if part rows were sorted.
0.1.3 (2015-07-07)
Added global part columns that show minimum unit and extended prices for all parts across all distributors.
0.1.2 (2015-07-04)
Refactoring.
To reduce the effort in adding manufacturer’s part numbers to a schematic, one will now be assigned to a part if:
It doesn’t have one.
It is identical to another part or parts which do have a manf. part number.
There are no other identical parts with a different manf. part number than the ones in item #2.
0.1.1 (2015-07-02)
Fixed delimiter for Mouser online order cut-and-paste.
0.1.0 (2015-06-30)
First release on PyPI.
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