{"id":23695,"date":"2020-10-12T05:07:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/?p=23695"},"modified":"2020-10-12T05:07:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:07:51","slug":"improved-part-searches-for-jlcpcb-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/10\/12\/improved-part-searches-for-jlcpcb-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Part Searches for JLCPCB Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the JLCPCB component parts library frustrating to navigate, [Jan Mr\u00e1zek] took matters into his own hands and made an open-source\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/yaqwsx\/jlcparts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parametric search utility<\/a>. We&#8217;ve all probably wasted time before trying to track down a particular flavor of a part, and this tool promises to make the process easier. \u00a0It downloads data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jlcpcb.com\/parts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JLCPCB parts site<\/a> upon initialization and presents the user with typical selection filters for categories and parameter values. You can install it yourself on GitHub Pages, or [Jan] provides <a href=\"https:\/\/yaqwsx.github.io\/jlcparts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a link to his site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious, the details of how to pull parts information from the JLBPCB site can be found in the project&#8217;s source code. \u00a0We like it when a distributor provides this level of access to their part details and parameters, allowing others to sort and filter the parts in ways not originally envisioned by the site design team. \u00a0We think this is a win-win situation &#8212; distributors can&#8217;t sell parts that designers can&#8217;t find.<\/p>\n<p>If [Jan]&#8217;s name sounds familiar, it should be. \u00a0We have written about several of his projects before, two of them are also PCB designer tools (\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/04\/17\/a-tool-for-kicad-board-renderings\/\">KiCad Board Renderings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/04\/25\/kicad-panelization-made-easy\/\">KiCad Panelization<\/a> ).<\/p>\n<p>source <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/10\/11\/improved-part-searches-for-jlcpcb-parts\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/10\/11\/improved-part-searches-for-jlcpcb-parts\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the JLCPCB component parts library frustrating to navigate, [Jan Mr\u00e1zek] took matters into his own hands and made an open-source\u00a0parametric search utility. We&#8217;ve all probably wasted time before trying to track down a particular flavor of a part, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/10\/12\/improved-part-searches-for-jlcpcb-parts\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improved Part Searches for JLCPCB Parts<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23696,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions\/23696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}