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Digi-Key has created a KiCad library of their own, listing many Digi-Key parts. This is a great way to get started creating your schematics, you’ll get all the Digi-Key part numbers on your items and it will be really easy to generate a Bill of Materials.

20200310/https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/design-tools/kicad
20200310/https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-kicad-library

Digi-Key Bill of Materials. Yeah, you can roll your own, but if you are working out a design in KiCad, wouldn’t it be nice to generate one from your KiCad design? Indeed you can, here’s how. Just make sure you either use the Digi-Key KiCad library or annotate all your parts with Digi-Key part numbers, and the rest should be a breeze. Unless… for some reason you’re using an old KiCad version that doesn’t have the group by quantity BOM plugin. In that case, you can use the KiBOM exporter after a simple git clone. It also allows you to generate nice HTML BOM listings.

20200310/DuckDuckGo digikey kicad bill of materials plugin
20200310/https://forum.digikey.com/t/kicad-kibom-and-digi-key-streamlines-ordering/857
20200310/https://github.com/SchrodingersGat/KiBoM