Allow Filtering of Hand-Soldered Components

[ahalekelly]

Thanks for the useful tool! Does the API expose which components require hand soldering? It would be great to be able to filter them out.

[yaqwsx]

At the moment, JLC PCB doesn't provide this information in their spreadsheet. So I have no way of obtaining the information

[raspico]

As an aside, REQUIRING hand soldering vs. ALLOWING it is obviously related to the package type. Maybe it would make sense to classify by package types: e.g SOP and DIL are easily solderable, QFN and TSSOP are harder, and obviously BGA are almost impossible to hand solder.

[yaqwsx]

@maksz42 Any changes you have an idea where to obtain this information on JLC PCB API since you poked into it recently?

[maksz42]

@yaqwsx I found https://jlcpcb.com/api/overseas-pcb-order/v1/shoppingCart/smtGood/getComponentDetail which returns

"assemblyMode": "manualWeld"
"assemblyModeBatch": "manualWeld"
"assemblyProcess": "THT"

or

"assemblyMode": "smtWeld"
"assemblyModeBatch": "smtWeld"
"assemblyProcess": "SMT"

and some other interesting stuff.
Used on https://jlcpcb.com/parts/componentSearch?searchTxt=74hc595
A request is sent when a list item is expanded. It takes some LCSC's internal component code which is different from C12345 codes.
example:

GET https://jlcpcb.com/api/overseas-pcb-order/v1/shoppingCart/smtGood/getComponentDetail?componentLcscId=1359

Also, smd/tht can be somehow infered from LCSC search pages, eg: https://www.lcsc.com/products/Shifting-Register_11102.html?keyword=74hc595
which uses endpoint POST https://wmsc.lcsc.com/wmsc/product/search/list
and https://www.lcsc.com/search?q=74hc595
which uses endpoint GET https://wmsc.lcsc.com/wmsc/search/global?keyword=74hc595
Both return json like:

minPacketUnit	"Reel"
productUnit	"Piece"
productArrange	"Tape & Reel (TR)"

minPacketUnit	"Tube"
productUnit	"Piece"
productArrange	"Tube-packed"

So I think jlcpcb api is a better approach, but I don't know how to get components' codes apart from performing a text search.