How to use Octopart API

[helloworld]

I am building an eCommerce website and was planning to use Octopart
API. I am kind of lost as from where to start implementation. I was
planing to at least extract one record and do something with it than
plan for dealing with all the results. Please if someone can put light
on it that will be great. Thank you in advance

[andres]

Hi,

What language are you using to query the Octopart API? I've attached an example html file that uses jQuery to make a simple API request.

Andres

[Ankur Kasliwal]

Hey,

       I am using JavaScript to do that and want response to come back in JSON form. So can you please provide an example accordingly. Also attached document is not getting opened.

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Sincerely,

Ankur Kasliwal

MS in CS, Northeastern University

ankur.ka...@gmail.com

(916)-673-7559

[andres]

Hi Ankur,

The API returns all responses in JSON format. Here is the example document available at a publicly accessible url:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/374620/api-example.html

Please let me know how else I can help!

Andres

[Ankur Kasliwal]

Hi Thank you for replying but I am still not able to open that link. All responses in JSON that is great but to send response the code which i need to write will be in JavaScript right and also one more thing can you also provide the hierarchy structure in which result will come that is root element with all child elements contain in it and so on.

Regards,

Ankur

[Andres Morey]

Hi Ankur,

Why can't you open the link? If you click on the link it should result in a JavaScript alert that says "66464", which is the number of hits in the example query.

To view the source code of the example, just look at the HTML source of that url.

Here is the schema for the response object:

http://octopart.com/api/documentation#parts_search

If you want to loop through the results and print the manufacturer/mpn you can do this:

$.each(response.results, function(i, result){

    alert(result.item.manufacturer.displayname + ' ' + result.item.mpn);

});

Andres

[ankur.ka...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the help will try doing that if some problem occurs will ask for help.

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Subject: Re: [octopart-api] Re: How to use Octopart API

[Ankur Kasliwal]

Hey,

       I don't know why but this is not working for me. Can you please help.

[Andres Morey]

Can you explain what isn't working? If you take me through the process of what you are doing and what you are expecting then I can help you.

Andres

[Ankur Kasliwal]

Hey,

       I am building an eCommerce website for learning purpose and like the JSON response your API gives. But I am not able to understand how to use your API because I used this method to send request

       $.ajax({

                    url: requestURL,

                    dataType: "jsonp",

                    success: processSearchResult

                }); .

It is working for other API which I had tried but not for yours so please can you help.

[Andres Morey]

Try this:

var requestURL = 'http://octopart.com/api/v2/parts/search?q=test&callback=?';

$.getJSON(requestURL,

                 {},

                 processSearchResult);

Andres

[Ankur Kasliwal]

I will try doing that