Python3 API for pulling information from PcPartPicker
Everything is pulled directly from there, no data is stored in this package
Currently this library contains these features:
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Select what region to use ("uk", "ca", etc.)
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The
listsclass - for interacting with pages that are lists of products, as seen under the "browse by individual parts" tab on the PCPartPicker website (such as products/cpu-cooler). All product lists are supported except the ones under theSOFTWAREcatergory, although those may be supported in the future
pip install PCPartPicker_API
See the PyPi page here
A quick demonstration of what this API can do
# Import pcpartpicker
from PCPartPicker_API import pcpartpicker
# Print the total amount of pages for CPUs
print("Total CPU pages:", pcpartpicker.lists.total_pages("cpu"))
# Pull info from page 1 of CPUs
cpu_info = pcpartpicker.lists.get_list("cpu", 1)
# Print the names and prices of all the CPUs on the page
for cpu in cpu_info:
print(cpu["name"], ":", cpu["price"])
# Change the region to UK
pcpartpicker.set_region("uk")
print("\nRegion changed to UK")
# Pull info from all CPU pages (this may take a minute)
cpu_info_2 = pcpartpicker.lists.get_list("cpu")
# Print the names and prices of all the CPUs on all pages
# The prices will now be in GBP (£) instead of USD ($)
for cpu in cpu_info_2:
print(cpu["name"], ":", cpu["price"])To start using the API, import pcpartpicker from PCPartPicker_API
A list of part_types and their dictionary keys are available in _pages_data
pcpartpicker contains these (public) functions:
| Function name | Paramaters | Description |
|---|---|---|
set_region |
region |
The region of PCPartPicker that this API uses. region must be one of: "au", "be", "ca", "de", "es", "fr", "in", "ie", "it", "nz", "uk", "us". The defualt is for this library is "us". As far as I can tell this only changes the currency |
lists.get_list |
part_type, page_num=0 |
This function returns a list of dictionaries. Each part_type will have different dictionary keys. To see what keys exist for each part_type, you can look them up in _pages_data. Every dictionary will always contain the keys name, price, ratings and id (although they may not always have a value). page_num is set to 0 by default. 0 means it will scrape all pages and gather all the info it can. If you only want to get information from, for example, page 2 of the cpu results, you would set page_num to 2 |
lists.total_pages |
part_type |
This function simply returns the amount of pages of results there are for a particular part_type |
- support the
SOFTWAREcatergory inpcpartpicker.lists