|Depends upon it=[[PTLR Webcrawler]]
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=Overview=
This code is located at E:/McNair/Software/Google_Scholar_Crawler/mainProgram.py. It calls on various other pieces of code to create a cohesive program for the patent thicket project which takes in a search term and a number of pages. It responds by searching on Google Scholar for that term, downloaded as many papers as it can from that search, converting them to text and searching for key terms and a definition of patent thicket in the text. Each piece of code can also be used individually for other applications.
=Stage 1=
Sets up a series of directories for results to go in.
=Stage 2=
[[Google Scholar Crawler]] under scholarcrawl.py heading.
=Stage 3=