Robot Detected?

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leasefetcher
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Robot Detected?

Post by leasefetcher » Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:28 pm

We're using the published-data search method to find patents for a variety of different applicants but we keep running into the CLIENT.RobotDetected error.

I don't think we're going over any quotas as it occurs after only a handful of requests.

We've tried updating the script to wait 4 seconds in between each request but we still encounter this issue.

Do you have any more info about what might trigger the robot detection?

Should we wait longer between requests?

Cheers
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EPO / OPS Support
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Re: Robot Detected?

Post by EPO / OPS Support » Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:38 pm

Hi,

Please send me an email to patentdata (at) epo.org with your OPS UserID or User name and I will have a look.

Regards,
Vesna for OPS support
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