Google Patents Scraper API — Claims, Landscape & Graphs

Why use this Actor?

Google Patents scraper for prior-art and IP intelligence. Search or look up patents; filter assignee, inventor, CPC, country, date and status; extract claims, citations, legal events and PDFs; build family/citation graphs and free landscape summaries.

Features

• Google Patents search expressions — Search terms or Google Patents query expressions.
• Maximum results per query — Maximum results per query. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Maximum result pages per query — Maximum result pages per query. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Optional country filter — Optional country filter. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Optional language filter — Optional language filter. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Enrich patent detail pages — Adds abstract, detail title, inventors/assignees, application/patent numbers, PDF and references when exposed.
• Maximum detail pages per query — Maximum detail pages per query. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Detail request concurrency — Detail request concurrency. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Persistent monitor key — Persistent monitor key. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Emit only newly observed publications — Emit only newly observed publications. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Request timeout — Request timeout. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Retries — Retries. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.

Use cases

• Prior-art research.
• Competitor ip monitoring.
• Assignee and inventor research.
• Patent intelligence datasets.

Example input

{
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 250,
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 10,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "detailsLimitPerQuery": 50,
  "detailConcurrency": 5,
  "onlyNew": false
}

Pricing & cost control

Use the bounded input limits and filters to keep runs predictable. Pay-per-result Actors only charge primary result rows; summary, status and monitoring metadata are designed to add context without inflating result volume.

FAQ

What is this Actor for?
It is designed for prior-art research, competitor IP monitoring, assignee and inventor research.

Can I run it on a schedule?
Yes. You can schedule Actor runs on Apify and send the resulting dataset into automations, webhooks, storage, or downstream APIs.

How do I control cost and run size?
Use the input limits and filters shown in the Actor input form. The Actor applies bounded defaults and hard caps so large jobs remain predictable.

Search keywords

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Search Google Patents through the same public XHR result surface used by the web application and export structured research datasets without a browser, account, API key or paid patent provider.

Search output

Each patent result can include:

• Publication number and Google Patents URL.
• Clean title and search-result snippet.
• Priority, filing, grant and publication dates.
• Inventor and assignee.
• Language.
• Direct PDF and thumbnail URLs when Google exposes them.
• Figure metadata.
• Family country/status metadata.
• Search rank.
• Optional persistent isNew state.

Optional deep detail enrichment

Enable includeDetails to fetch a bounded number of patent detail pages concurrently. The Actor extracts public meta fields including abstract/description, detail title, inventors, assignees, filing/issue dates, application and patent numbers, PDF URL, and references/citations exposed in the page metadata.

Unlike products that force a full expensive detail crawl, search-only mode stays lightweight. Deep enrichment is explicitly bounded with detailsLimitPerQuery and detailConcurrency.

Monitoring

Use a stable monitorKey in scheduled runs to keep a bounded set of publication numbers already observed. onlyNew=true then turns a saved query into a patent-watch feed.

Example

{
  "queries":["artificial intelligence controller","solid state battery"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery":250,
  "includeDetails":true,
  "detailsLimitPerQuery":50,
  "monitorKey":"research-radar"
}

Reliability

The Actor uses the public Google Patents XHR JSON endpoint for result pages instead of scraping visual search-result markup. Duplicate publications across queries are removed. Detail-page failures do not destroy search results. Inputs, pages, detail requests, concurrency, retries and timeouts are all bounded.

Google Patents is a public research interface rather than a guaranteed commercial API, so response-shape changes are possible. Deployment includes a live cloud smoke test against the current XHR endpoint.

Patent metadata is informational. Verify critical legal or bibliographic facts against official patent-office records.

Extended capabilities

• Search or directly look up patent publications with assignee, inventor, CPC, date, status, and locale filters.
• Enrich bounded results with claims, classifications, citations, legal events, PDFs, figures, and family metadata.
• Optionally emit citation and patent-family graphs with bounded node counts.