Google Patents: scrapers and the official API, compared

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run_input = {
    "mode": "searchPatents",
    "searchQueries": [
        "quantum computing"
    ],
    "publicationNumbers": [],
    "inventors": [],
    "assignees": [],
    "classifications": [],
    "urls": [],
    "countryCodes": [],
    "documentLanguages": [],
    "detailLanguage": "en",
    "status": "ANY",
    "patentType": "ANY",
    "dateType": "priority",
    "sortBy": "relevance",
    "grouping": "family",
    "includeSimilar": True,
    "includeNonPatentLiterature": False,
    "litigation": "ANY",
    "citationDirection": "both",
    "citationDepth": 1,
    "fetchFullDetails": False,
    "maxItems": 3,
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 0
}

run = client.actor("dataspryva/google-patents-inventor-assignee-and-citation").call(run_input=run_input)
if run is None:
    raise RuntimeError("The Actor run was not found.")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" });
const input = {
    "mode": "searchPatents",
    "searchQueries": [
        "quantum computing"
    ],
    "publicationNumbers": [],
    "inventors": [],
    "assignees": [],
    "classifications": [],
    "urls": [],
    "countryCodes": [],
    "documentLanguages": [],
    "detailLanguage": "en",
    "status": "ANY",
    "patentType": "ANY",
    "dateType": "priority",
    "sortBy": "relevance",
    "grouping": "family",
    "includeSimilar": true,
    "includeNonPatentLiterature": false,
    "litigation": "ANY",
    "citationDirection": "both",
    "citationDepth": 1,
    "fetchFullDetails": false,
    "maxItems": 3,
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 0
};

const run = await client.actor("dataspryva/google-patents-inventor-assignee-and-citation").call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/dataspryva~google-patents-inventor-assignee-and-citation/run-sync-get-dataset-items"   -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -d '{"mode":"searchPatents","searchQueries":["quantum computing"],"publicationNumbers":[],"inventors":[],"assignees":[],"classifications":[],"urls":[],"countryCodes":[],"documentLanguages":[],"detailLanguage":"en","status":"ANY","patentType":"ANY","dateType":"priority","sortBy":"relevance","grouping":"family","includeSimilar":true,"includeNonPatentLiterature":false,"litigation":"ANY","citationDirection":"both","citationDepth":1,"fetchFullDetails":false,"maxItems":3,"maxItemsPerQuery":0}'

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=dataspryva/google-patents-inventor-assignee-and-citation",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}