Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: google_patent_scraper
Version: 1.0.5
Summary: A package to scrape patents from 'https://patents.google.com/'
Home-page: https://github.com/rls542/patent_scraper/
Author: Ryan Stevens
Author-email: ryan.louis.stevens@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # Patent Scraper
        A python package to scrape patents from 'https://patents.google.com/'. The package is made up ofa single python class, google_scraper(). This scraper can be used both to retreive parsed html of a single patents page or a list of patents.
        
        ## Main Use Cases
        
        There are two primary ways to use this package:
        1. Scrape a single patent
        
        ``` python
        # ~ Import packages ~ #
        from patent_scraper import google_scraper
        import json
        
        # ~ Initialize scraper class ~ #
        scraper=google_scrape() 
        
        # ~ Scrape patents individually ~ #
        #
        # Request single patent returns whether the scrape
        #  was successful and the parsed html using bs4
        err_1, soup_1 = scraper.request_single_patent('US2668287A')
        err_2, soup_2 = scraper.request_single_patent('US266827A')
        
        # ~ Parse results of scrape ~ #
        patent_1_parsed = scraper.process_patent_html(soup_1)
        patent_2_parsed = scraper.process_patent_html(soup_2)
        ```
        
        2. Scrape a list of patents
        
        ```python
        # ~ Import packages ~ #
        from patent_scraper import google_scraper
        import json
        
        # ~ Initialize scraper class ~ #
        scraper=google_scrape() #<- Initialize class
        
        # ~ Add patents to list ~ #
        scraper.add_patents('2668287A')
        scraper.add_patents('266827A')
        
        # ~ Scrape all patents ~ #
        scraper.scrape_all_patents()
        
        # ~ Get results of scrape ~ #
        patent_1_parsed = scraper.parsed_patents['US2668287A']
        patent_2_parsed = scraper.parsed_patents['US266827A']
        
        # ~ Print inventors of patent US2668287A ~ #
        for inventor in json.loads(patent_1_parsed['inventor_name']):
          print('Patent inventor : {0}'.format(inventor['inventor_name']) 
        ```
        
        
        ### Example Files
        
        I have provided two seperate example scripts for usage of this package:
          1. Scrape a patent
          2. Scrape many patents using multiprocessing module
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Requires-Python: >=3.6
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