Stock Quantity of 0 on Digikey 'Value Added' parts

[t...@welldone.org]

Hi everyone,

I have a board with a standard 6-pin male connector, S1011EC-06-ND from Digikey.  This is a 'Value Added' part that Digikey always has in stock.  When I query the Octopart API, however, I get that the stock quantity is 0 rather than something like -2 to indicate that the product is in stock but there is no information on how many per the API documentation here:
https://octopart.com/api/docs/v3/rest-api#notes-partoffer.in_stock_quantity

I'm not sure if it's possible to fix this but it would be useful to me and probably other people since I use the octopart API to automatically price BOMs and I would like to exclude distributors from the pricing routine if they don't have enough stock to satisfy my order.  However, because Digikey value-added parts show up as a stock of 0, they get filtered out and reported as non-stock even though they are in stock.

Hope this is helpful for the Octopart people if they're looking for more work to do...

Best,
Tim

[andres]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for letting us know about the problem! We'll follow up with Digi-Key and see if there's a better solution.

Andres