It's been a long night, but I'm happy to announce that we've rolled out a major upgrade to our back end datastore. And if everything went off just right you will notice... nothing at all.
I realize that announcing a major upgrade with nothing to show for it may seem strange, but I'm going to ask you to trust me on this one. We've hooked up the the new internals to the same Octopart front end while we work out any kinks in the new system. As we bring the system up to full throttle, you can expect to see more up-to-date pricing and availability data, more datasheets, and more part images. And as always, if you run into any problems, please email us at contact@octopart.com.
When I'm using Google to search for datasheets I often wish that Google could tell that I'm looking for a part and give me the datasheet right away. Well, it looks like my prayers have been answered:
Clicking on the link above will take you to a Google page where you can subscribe to our data feed. Once you are subscribed, if the part you are searching for is in our feed, it will show up automatically in your search results.
As we get more data, we will add it to the Google feed as well so the service will keep getting better and better. We're also already thinking about other ways we can integrate Octopart data with Google.
If you find the data feed useful and you want to tell your friends about it, click here to send an email.
As always, email us to let us know what you think (contact@octopart.com).
Ever wished you could do an Octopart search without having to trek all the way to our website? Feel like sprucing up your own website with electronic parts search? We're happy to announce that you now can using the Octopart Search API. To find out more details, visit the FAQ. Please e-mail us with suggestions and requests.
For the past year we have been getting emails from users asking us to add parametric search to Octopart. We told you we were working on it and you probably thought we were working on our sun tans. To all of those users thanks for being so patient. We're finally releasing parametric search today!
Have you ever wanted to use Octopart to sort capacitors by their capacitance? Or to look for resistors with a power rating greater than 50W? Well, now you can. Whenever you see a numeric filter just click on it and a slider will pop up to help you set the range. For advanced users, you should try playing around with the url to refine your search even further.
OK, let's not get too excited. We realize that the features we're releasing today aren't perfect. However, we thought some people might find them useful so we wanted to release them as soon as possible. Now we're going to go back to work trying to make parametric search better so please email us with comments and suggestions (contact@octopart.com).
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