WWakker / PatentsView-downloader

Download data from PatentsView through the API by date

PatentsView downloader

Download data through the patent endpoint of the PatentsView API by date.

Example

Download data for January 2019 and write to csv files.

import pandas as pd
import functions

# Fields from https://api.patentsview.org/patent.html#field_list
fields = ['patent_number', 
          'patent_abstract',
          'patent_date',
          'assignee_id', 
          'assignee_country', 
          'inventor_id', 
          'inventor_country']

dfs = functions.patentsvsiew_query_to_dfs(fields=fields, 
                                          startdate='2019-01-01', 
                                          enddate='2019-02-01', 
                                          per_page=10000, 
                                          force_retry=True, 
                                          time_retry=1)
                              
for group, df in dfs.items():
    df.to_csv('YOUR/PATH/HERE/{}.csv'.format(group), index=False)