https://github.com/vprusso/us_patent_scraper

A scraper for the US patents website (http://www.uspto.gov/)
https://github.com/vprusso/us_patent_scraper

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A scraper for the US patents website (http://www.uspto.gov/)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vprusso/us_patent_scraper
• Owner: vprusso
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-05-10T22:36:24.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-05-11T14:34:38.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-31T17:55:11.056Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 160 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# US Patent Scraper

A scraper for the US patents website (http://www.uspto.gov/)

This script requires the open source Python scraping library, Scrapy:

http://scrapy.org/

## Goal:

To obtain the following list of information from a user-specified search of US patents: 

	1. Patent Number

	2. US Patent Class Number

	3. International Patent Class Number

	4. Inventor Country Code 

	5. Document Identifier

	6. Abstract

	7. Patent File Date

	8. Patent Granted Date

	9. Inventor Names

	10. Patent Name

The URLs are read from "us_patent_urls.txt" and scrapes each search result. The results of each patent are then collected into a .json file. 

## Instructions:

Simply run the main.py file in patent_spider/patent_spider/main.py