PartSourcer

I’ve been working on a personal project called PartSourcer. Essentially, it’s a database, a bit beautified, but a database nevertheless, that scours the internet for major electronic component distributors in bulk, such as Mouser, DigiKey, JLCPCB, and LCSC. It goes through all of these major component databases, fetching real-time data from API keys I generated myself, and outputs the components and their prices.

So far, I have the frontend and most of the backend done. The next step is to actually implement the Mouser and DigiKey API keys. I have the Mouser one ready; DigiKey is a bit more confusing to get, but I will get it. I already have the LCSC and JLCPCB integration working for each component, showing real-time stock and unit prices per item.

I’m going to keep a very early version of the project open source under the MIT license. Later on, I plan to remove the MIT license and host it on the internet for free, but it won’t remain open source. Only that very early version will stay under the MIT license.

Moving forward, my roadmap for the project includes:

1. Completing the actual API implementations.
2. Implementing a side-by-side comparison tool.
3. Adding a large-scale, bulk BOM (bill of materials) upload feature.
4. Creating a price history chart.
5. Implementing a “browse by category” feature.
6. Adding a “biggest savings this week” section to show people where the best deals are and what they can save money on.