# Changelog of Google Patents Scraper (`lmbtechnology/google-patents-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lmbtechnology/google-patents-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/lmbtechnology/google-patents-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.0 (2026-10-21)

- First release.
- Search Google Patents by keywords (Google Patents syntax allowed), assignees, inventors, CPC codes, countries, date range (priority / filing / publication), status, type, languages, litigation, deduplication and sort order; or from Google Patents search links.
- Look up patent numbers and Google Patents patent links (always with details).
- One item per patent: publication number, title, country, status, dates, first inventor and assignee, language, snippet, PDF link, thumbnail, family countries, search query and rank.
- Details (on by default, from the patent page): abstract, all inventors and assignees (original and current), application number, kind code, CPC codes, claims count, independent claims, first claim, citation counts (cited, cited by, family, non-patent), family id and members, legal status and category, event timeline, drawings, prior-art keywords, external links.
- Optional full text: claims text, description text, citation lists, legal events, similar documents.
- "Split by date": gets past Google's 1,000-result limit by splitting a search into date ranges recursively.
- Monitor mode ("Only new patents"): keeps the seen list in a named key-value store; later runs search only publications since the last run.
- Google rate limits: a fresh proxy IP every few requests, rate-limited requests retried from another IP, automatic switch from datacenter to residential proxies.
- Free error items, run summary record per search, pay-per-event pricing (`patent`, `patent-details`), clean stop at the maximum cost per run.