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Part-DB 2.6.0: Updates from Web interface, Generic Webshop Provider, Part creation from URL and more

A project log for Part-DB - Open Source inventory software

Part-DB is an Open-Source inventory management system for your electronic components. It is installed on a web server and so can be accessed

jan-bJan B. 02/07/2026 at 19:210 Comments

Part-DB 2.6.0

Part-DB 2.6. has some new big features:

Update manager


Thanks to @Sebbeben there is a new (experimental) update manager, allowing to update Part-DB directly from the Web interface, when it was installed via git. 

update-manager-interface

It is for now experimental, users require the permission for it, and you need to explicitly set `DISABLE_WEB_UPDATES=0` in your `.env.local` to enable it. This might change in the future, if there is more experience with the reliability of the web updater.

You can also update from the console line with the new `partdb:update` console command.

Generic webshop provider

There is a new generic URL provider, that allows to import rudimentary part infos from many different webshops. It works by parsing either the JSONLD or microdata provided by the webpage, which is used by search engine to show rich product results. The amount of data you can get from it, depends on the website, but it is normally the name, some description, an image, a category, the price and the shop's order number for the product.

That way it is possible to easily import things from sellers, which have no specialized info provider. Just select the "Generic URL" as provider and use the URL as keyword. Alternatively you can also use the new "Create part from URL feature"

Create part from URL

Bases on the Generic URL provider there is now a specialized page to create a part from an URL. Just input the URL and it will try to to retrieve infos from it and offer to create a new part from it.

If you input an URL from an existing info provider (like an TME shop URL), then it tries to delegate it to that provider, to get the more detailed results from it. Please note that this not works for all info providers yet.

And more


There is also an Info provider for conrad and some other smaller changes. See the release notes for detailed info: https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-server/releases/tag/v2.6.0

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