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Farnell

Farnell is an Avnet company similar to Newark. Because of this, Farnell uses a shared API key process. The API provider they use is called Element14.

Getting an API key pair

  1. In order to get your account credentials, Farnell requests you make an account with Element 14’s Partner Portal. It is suggested to use the same email registered for Farnell / Newark to create this account. You only need to make an account one time for both of these suppliers

    https://partner.element14.com/member/register

  2. Once you are logged in, Farnell requests that you create an “app” in order to acquire your API keys. You can do this by filling out this form:

    https://partner.element14.com/apps/register

    Tricky Form Questions:

    Here are answers to form questions that may be confusing. For any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to nick@breadboard.com

    Register Your New Application

    Question Answer
    Name of your application (you can change it later) Breadboard-Farnell
    Web Site https://app.breadboard.com
    Please describe what your application will do Breadboard will allow us to use Newark API credentials to view pricing and availability relative to our account for sourcing and procurement purposes
    What type of application are you building? Web application with client-side calls
    How many people do you anticipate will use your application? 1-10 or the number of seats you have with Breadboard
    Is your application commercial? (Will you charge people to access the application?) No
    Does your application run advertising? No
    Notes Please contact engineering@breadboard or with any questions
    How did you hear about this API? Breadboard Partner Portal
    Register Callback URL (leave blank)

    Select which Web APIs this application will use

    Question Answer
    Issue a new key for Product Search API (mark as checked)
    Medium (10 calls per second/15,000 calls per day) (mark as checked)

    Terms of Service

    Question Answer
    I agree to the terms of service (mark as checked)

  3. Once you have filled out that form, you can now return back to your “apps” to retreive your API key.

    https://partner.element14.com/apps/myapps

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    💡 NOTE: While this key by itself will get you the most current product data from Newark, it does not provide you with custom pricing associated with your account. To acquire custom pricing from Farnell, an extra key is granted over email

     

  4. (optional) In order to acquire custom pricing, please send the following email with engineering@breadboard.com CC’d to acquire the remaining credentials. If you are also seeking to make a direct connection with Newark, you may send this email one time across both

    From: you
    To: rgomes@newark.com, mpecenka@newark.com
    CC: engineering@breadboard.com

    Subject: Farnell/Newark Custom Pricing Request

    Body:

    Hello,

    I am reaching out to acquire the remaining API key values needed to receive
    custom pricing from Newark/Farnell. Here are the app keys registered from
    the Element 14 Partner Portal:

    Breadboard-Farnell App key: <place API KEY PART here>

    Breadboard-Newark App key: <place API KEY PART here>

    You can expect an email response that will then yield the remaining key values:

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  5. Once you have the key from step 3 (and optionally the remaining values from step 4), you may now navigate over to your Breadboard account and insert this key

  6. Navigate to Supplier Management, and search for Farnell

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  7. Under API Connection, uncheck Proxy through Breadboard to open a form for your API keys and insert the following while ensuring no extra spaces or characters are added:

    API Key *: Insert the value from step 3 for Product Search API Standard key

    Customer ID: (optional) Insert the value from your email in step 4 for Newark’s Customer ID

    Secret Key: (optional) Insert the value from your email in step 4 for Newark’s Secret Key

    Click Test and Connect to API. You should see a message indicating that this succeeded if the credentials provided were correct.

  8. Breadboard is now connected to Newark directly, and you can expect pricing and product information to reflect that in the app. For existing data uploaded prior to inserting these credentials, you can update market data by selecting Refresh Data