Open crew102 opened 4 years ago
Hi crew102,
Thank you for bringing this issue to us. The problem you are having seems to stem from the PatentsView package in r rather than the API itself.
To run this query using the API you can use the following query language:
This will display the results you were looking for without needing to run each field individually.
Please let us know if you have any future issues with the API.
So it looks like it has something to do with the matched_subentities_only
parameter.
When I set matched_subentities_only
to false, I get results:
However, when I set matched_subentities_only
to true, I don't:
I'm not 100% clear on what this parameter does, but I know that the results of the query shown above used to return results (while it's not returning results now). Am I missing something, or has something changed with the API? Thanks.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It looks as though there is an issue with the matched_subentities_only
parameter at the moment. We are working to fix this and will update you and close this issue once it has been resolved.
I noticed that the locations endpoint has some strange behavior when you ask it for fields from multiple "groups" (i.e., the groups in the fields list https://www.patentsview.org/api/location.html#field_list). The example below provides a minimal example where I try to get four fields that exist across four groups. I can get them one by one (iterating over the four fields), but when I ask for them all at once I don't get any results.
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