What does each Google Patents scraper result include?

Every patent returns a title, an abstract snippet, inventor, assignee, publication number, priority, filing, grant, and publication dates, a direct link, the figure images, and the patent PDF. It is enough to build a search index or a patent dataset without a second call.

Does the Google Patents scraper include figures and the PDF?

Yes. Each record includes a figures array with the full-size drawing URL and a thumbnail for every figure, plus a direct link to the patent PDF document.

Is there a free Google Patents API?

CrustAPI includes 3,000 free credits every month with no credit card, and credits never expire. That covers a real patent search for research or monitoring.

Google Patents scraper API

A Google Patents scraper that returns clean JSON: title, inventor, assignee, publication number, priority and filing dates, figures, and the patent PDF, or the same rows as CSV. One credit per successful search, empty searches free.

3,000 free / month, no card Dates, inventor, assignee, figures ~1 second responses

PULLED LIVE FROM THE API, JULY 20, 2026

One request, real response

# one credit per successful search; zero results cost nothing curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=patents&q=solar+panel" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

The same patents as CSV, so it drops straight into Sheets or a database:

title,assignee,inventor,publicationNumber,publicationDate,link "Apparatus for two-way tracing and concentrating sunlight of roof installation ...","Green Plus Co. Ltd.","Young Hwan Park","EP2264377A2","2010-12-22","https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2264377A2/en" "Weatherproof building envelope","Mario Posnansky","Mario Posnansky","US8857124B2","2014-10-14","https://patents.google.com/patent/US8857124B2/en"

Add gl and hl for country and language, and page with num for more results.

WHAT EVERY PATENT INCLUDES

The full record, ready to use

Every patent comes complete, so you build a search index or a dataset with no second call. The same record as CSV, ready for Sheets or a database:

title,assignee,inventor,publicationNumber,priorityDate,filingDate,publicationDate,grantDate,link,pdfUrl "Apparatus for two-way tracing and concentrating sunlight of roof installation ...","Green Plus Co. Ltd.","Young Hwan Park","EP2264377A2","2009-06-03","2009-12-04","2010-12-22","","https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2264377A2/en","https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ab/e8/1b/b4e5e04347805d/EP2264377A2.pdf"

Or the same record as JSON:

// the top patent in full { "title": "Apparatus for two-way tracing and concentrating sunlight of roof installation ...", "snippet": "a plurality of second open push rods which have one sides hinge-coupled to the plurality of second driven pipes side by side to move horizontally, and the other sides hinge-coupled to the lower portions of the plurality of second solar module ...", "link": "https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2264377A2/en", "inventor": "Young Hwan Park", "assignee": "Green Plus Co. Ltd.", "publicationNumber": "EP2264377A2", "priorityDate": "2009-06-03", "filingDate": "2009-12-04", "grantDate": "", "publicationDate": "2010-12-22", "language": "en", "thumbnailUrl": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/10/07/98/4303b211202664/imgf0001.png", "pdfUrl": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ab/e8/1b/b4e5e04347805d/EP2264377A2.pdf", "figures": [ // seven figures returned; first two shown { "imageUrl": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ba/bb/d6/cca39de36c7823/imgf0001.png", "thumbnailUrl": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/2d/0c/da/5a9449ffb69e51/imgf0001.png" }, { "imageUrl": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/0c/29/19/5e2db7c8996fec/imgf0002.png", "thumbnailUrl": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/10/a5/d3/85b6245ef007df/imgf0002.png" } ] }

HOW IT COMPARES

vs serper and serpapi

All three return Google Patents as JSON. The difference is what each result carries and how you pay for it.

	Other Patents APIs	CrustAPI Patents
Billing unit	Per search, even when it returns nothing	One credit per successful search; empty searches free
Figures	Often one thumbnail	Every figure, full image URL plus thumbnail
Dates	Varies by provider	Priority, filing, grant, and publication
Patent PDF	Not always included	Direct PDF link on every record
Free tier	Trial credits that expire	3,000 credits / month, no card
Credits expiry	Expire monthly or in 6 months	Never expire
Storing the data	Varies by provider	No storage limits. Keep it, export it, build on it

PRICING

One credit per successful search

Prepaid packs, and credits never expire: 25k for $49 · 100k for $149 · 500k for $549 · 2.5M for $1,999 · up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. A successful search costs one credit, however many patents come back; a search that returns none costs nothing.

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WHAT ELSE YOU GET

Every figure and the full PDF

Each patent record carries a figures array with the full-size drawing URL and a thumbnail for each figure, plus a direct pdfUrl to the patent document. So you can pull the drawings or archive the PDF without another request.

FAIR PLAY

When a paid patent database is the better pick: you need full claims text, legal status and litigation history, complete family and citation trees, or licensing and assignment records with a contract behind them. Google Patents gives you the title, abstract snippet, inventor, assignee, dates, figures, and the PDF, which is what most search and monitoring work needs, but it is not a full legal patent database.

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