Note: Don't do scheduled updates. Stress the APIs as little as possible.

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wanting to possibly schedule updating parts automatically, I enabled using "/" to process recursively all categories. Not sure if this could be useful for others, but I will park this here:

inventree_helpers.py

def get_category(inventree_api: InvenTreeAPI, category_path):
    name = category_path.split("/")[-1]
    categories = PartCategory.list(inventree_api, search=name)
    if category_path == "/":
        return [c for c in categories if c.parent == None]
    for category in categories:
        if category.pathstring == category_path:
            return [category]

    return None

def get_category_parts(part_categories: list[PartCategory], cascade):
        parts=[] 
        for part_category in part_categories:
            if len(part_categories) > 0:
               info(f'Getting parts from category {part_category.name}')
            parts.extend(Part.list(
                part_category._api,
                category=part_category.pk,
                cascade=cascade,
                purchaseable=True,
            ))
        return parts

cli.py (optional

        if not (categories := get_category(inventree_api, category_path)):
            error(f"no such category '{category_path}'")
            return
        parts = [part for part in get_category_parts(categories, bool(update_recursive))]