Is there a way to add Part Numbers (Part #) to the items?

[Fritzzin]

Wondering if there's a way to add Part Numbers for the next time you update the snapshot of the data base. That would make the API just as helpful and useful.

[JonathanVusich]

What use case does this enable? This would require visiting every single product page on PCPartPicker, which would exponentially increase the time to build a database snapshot.

[Fritzzin]

Right now I'm working on reports for some companies. All of these are done through excel(spreadsheet) files. The problem is that right now, I have to do them all manually, getting the part# that is given to me, searching through the internet and filling the parameters with the results. If the API has the part#, I would be able to automatically fill all parameters based on the answer from the API.

I've seen you also made a scraper and the code is on your github. Maybe with your help, I could just add the part# so I can build a database snapshot on my system. That would also be REALLY helpful if it's too much of a bother (or too demanding on your system/server) to do it on the main API.

[JonathanVusich]

I don't have much extra bandwidth right now, so it's unlikely I'll get to this in the near future. I would be willing to guide you if you want to take a crack at it though.

[Fritzzin]

Thank you for the offer. If there's any way you can contact me directly, so maybe we can close the issue. Or, if you'd prefer, you can give me a step-by-step on how to do it here, just in case someone wanna make a change again in the future.