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.
- 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
- Choose a
- Now select your newly created
Production App
- In the
Credential
section enable the options to show theClient ID
andClient 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_v3
- 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-v3.git
- Enter to
kicost-digikey-api-v3
- Install it using
pip3 install -e .
- Clone the git repo somewhere using
- 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
- run