USPTO Scraper
Spider read uspto.gov in 169 ms without a browser and returned 161 lines of clean markdown.
IP-intensive industries provide better paying jobs, employ one-third of total workforce and account for 44% of U.S. gross domestic product: new USPTO studyThe USPTO released its latest report highlighting the profound economic contributions of industries that predominantly rely on intellectual property (IP) protection, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.USPTO holds historic patent and trademark signing ceremony commemorating America's 250th birthdayThe USPTO, America's Innovation Agency, held a ceremonial patent and trademark signing to commemorate America’s 250 celebration.USPTO unveils new, improved homepage designAs part of our efforts to improve and enhance the digital experience for **USPTO.gov** visitors, America's Innovation Agency, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has unveiled a modernized homepage design to make it easier to find valuable information and resources.USPTO and Ghana sign historic statement of intent for Accelerated Patent Grant arrangementThe U.S Patent and Trademark Office has marked a historic first after signing a statement of intent for a new Accelerated Patent Grant arrangement between the USPTO and Ghana’s IP office, the Registrar General’s Department, Ministry of Justice.USPTO selects Georgia and Alabama HBCU and MSI innovation ecosystems for Southeast Community Engagement Office expansionRegionally specialized innovation ecosystem partnerships to serve as nodes of university research excellence and engagement with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions.USPTO Hour: Understanding the Special 301 ReportIn this session, our IP policy experts will offer a look at the U.S. Trade Representative's annual review of international intellectual property rights protections.SOAR presents - Learn to search like a patent examinerLearn to search like an examiner and how to use the Patent Public Search tool (PPUBS).The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on uspto.gov.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=TTL%2Fartificial+intelligence&d=PTXT");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=TTL%2Fartificial+intelligence&d=PTXT");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const patents = [];
document.querySelectorAll("table tr").forEach(el => {
const number = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2) a")?.textContent?.trim();
const title = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4)")?.textContent?.trim();
if (number && title) patents.push({ number, title });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: patents.length, patents: patents.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What uspto.gov costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000305 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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