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ROBERTSACHS's avatar
ROBERTSACHS
Qrew Cadet
5 years ago

Get HTML from Web Page DOM using Data from QB fields

I have a database of patents.  Each record includes a patent number field, a claim number field, and a claim field.  I want to extract the corresponding text of the patent claim from Google Patents us...
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PaulPeterson1's avatar
PaulPeterson1
Qrew Assistant Captain
Robert,

It looks like you using screen scrapping to get your data.  You will probably need an external source to collect your data, then you can import the data into your app.  Most sites (including Google) have policies regarding screen scraping.  If you make too many calls they will eventually block your IP.

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Paul Peterson
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ROBERTSACHS's avatar
ROBERTSACHS
Qrew Cadet
5 years ago
Yes, I'm using screen scraping.  But first the data is public data and the volume is trivially low (a few calls per day).  Google used to have an API for this, but discontinued it.

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ROBERT SACHS
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