Setup depa.tech api

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About

PatZilla uses the depa.tech api data source to provide professional access to patent information and fulltext search across DE, EP, WO, US, JP and KR.

For general information about the depa.tech api, please refer to About depa.tech.

Account registration

To get access to their public APIs, the customer must have an account for their depatech-proxy (basic authentication). They will provide you such an account by sending an email to marc.haus@mtc.berlin or by visiting the depa.tech api page.

System-wide configuration

For configuring PatZilla with system-wide depa.tech api authentication credentials, please configure the “api_uri”, “api_username” and “api_password” settings in the PatZilla configuration file.

You will find the right place at section [datasource:depatech]:

[datasource:depatech]

# API connection settings
api_uri      = {depatech_api_uri}
api_username = {depatech_api_username}
api_password = {depatech_api_password}

Per-user configuration

PatZilla can use per-user credentials for authenticating against the depa.tech api. An example schema for the User model looks like this:

upstream_credentials: {
    depatech: {
        username: "john.doe",
        password: "ogdotdut"
    }
}