PatentFetch

PatentFetch uses a CSV file provided by Google's Patent search download link to retrieve patent PDFs if available.

• The individual search result page's HTML is retrieved and parsed for the meta element containing the name="citation_pdf_url".
• The citation pdf url is used to then retrieve the PDF of the patent

Release Notes

• version: 0.0.1
• status: concept
• released: 2025-10-17

Proof of concept command line tool to retrieving patent PDFs for Caltech Archives.

Authors

• Doiel, R. S.

Software Requirements

• go >= 1.25.3

Software Suggestions

• CMTools >= 0.0.40

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