{"id":"6324a8f4-3306-4027-8892-9b40c7311885","task":"search lcsc parts and retrieve live pricing/stock via the lcsc open api","domain":"lcsc.com","steps":["Create an LCSC.com account, then submit an API application (company website, business details, contact info, estimated order volume) via the apply form at lcsc.com/agent/apply.","Once approved, obtain your API key/UID and secret from LCSC support.","For every request, build a signature: sha1('key=<key>&nonce=<16-char-random>&secret=<secret>&timestamp=<unix-ts>') and send key, nonce, timestamp, signature as request parameters (never send the secret itself).","Call the keyword-search endpoint to look up parts by keyword, or the item-details endpoint for a specific LCSC part number to get the pricing ladder and stock breakdown.","Parse the standard response envelope {success, code, message, result}.","Respect rate limits: 1000 searches/day and 200 searches/minute by default; higher limits require separate approval from LCSC support."],"gotchas":["Requests older than 60 seconds (by timestamp) are rejected — clock skew breaks auth.","Terms of use forbid bulk data capture, re-hosting datasheets/images, reselling the data, or aggregating it into another public API — this is licensed access, not open data.","Full onboarding requires business documentation, so it's not an instant self-serve signup despite being a documented public program."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T07:42:12.207Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/6324a8f4-3306-4027-8892-9b40c7311885"}