#4879 Google Patents and arXiv Scraping
#4879 Google Patents and arXiv Scraping #4879 Google Patents scraping. Can a Python app search Google Patents, scrape the response links, the iterate over the links (across maybe the first 3 pages of search results), opening each link and saving the contents to file? A Python application can automate searching Google Patents, extracting the result URLs across multiple pages, fetching each individual patent page, and saving the contents to disk. Technical Realities & Architecture Client-Side Rendering (JavaScript): Google Patents ( patents.google.com ) is built with Polymer/Web Components ( <search-result-item> ). A plain requests.get() call on the search page will not yield the search result elements because they are rendered via JavaScript on the client side. You must use either: A headless browser driver like Playwright or Selenium . An official or direct bulk alternative (such as Google Patents Public Datasets on BigQuery or Google Patents CSV bulk export)....