Feature Request: Live Part Stock OR Run javascript inside column

Hello, I’d love to be able to track the number of components in stock for a given project from within my html bom. That way when maintaining projects and checking part statuses I don’t have to look any farther than my git repo. I’d love to contribute to the project or fork my feature if somebody can point me in the right direction within the project.

You can search for the stock quantity of a LCSC part using a simple GET request, for example: https://wwwapi.lcsc.com/v1/products/detail?product_code=C2565

Another idea I had was to try and inject javascript into the Symbol Fields Table in KiCAD, but I couldn’t get that to work: As you might be able to guess, I’m mostly a react developer…

Any ideas on how I might be able to get this working?

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Hi @waymond91 !

Just my 2 cents: KiCost is designed to find the costs and prices for a KiCad BoM, it currently supports the REST API for Digi-Key, Mouser, Newark/Farnell and TME. You need tokens for each distributor, they are free.

Both, KiCost and iBoM, are integrated by KiBot. It runs on Linux and CI/CD environments, some users runs it on Windows (using WSL), for MacOS some adjust should be done, but I can assist you. Running KiBot on a GitHub action without any configuration you can get this.

Just in case you want to take a look at what is currently available.

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I’m having trouble finding my plugin install location on MacOS. Can you point me in the right direction here?

Open Configure paths dialog from preferences menu of kicad and check the KICAD6_3RD_PARTY path.

There is no requirement.txt because the plugin doesnt need anything beyond what comes with kicad. To run it on non-linux system you have to run the python bundled with kicad, not the system one. Not sure where it is on mac.