<?php
# @name: ops_api.php
# @version: 0.1
# @creation_date: 2021-09-24
# @license: The MIT License <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>
# @author: Simon Bowie <ad7588@coventry.ac.uk>
# @purpose: Performs functions against the European Patent Office's Open Patent Services (OPS) API
# @acknowledgements:
# OPS documented at https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/web-services/ops.html
# OPS RESTful API specification at http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/F3ECDCC915C9BCD8C1258060003AA712/$File/ops_v3.2_documentation_-_version_1.3.16_en.pdf
# OPS API functions list at https://developers.epo.org/ops-v3-2/apis
function get_access_token() {
// OPS API credentials (details at http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/F3ECDCC915C9BCD8C1258060003AA712/$File/ops_v3.2_documentation_-_version_1.3.16_en.pdf)
$ops_url = $_ENV["OPS_URL"] . '3.2/auth/accesstoken';
$auth = base64_encode($_ENV["CONSUMER_KEY"] . ":" . $_ENV["CONSUMER_SECRET"]);
// Set up API call
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ops_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Basic $auth","Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'grant_type=client_credentials');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
// Give back curl result
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// Turn the API response into useful Json
$json = json_decode($response);
$access_token = $json->access_token;
return $access_token;
}
function get_publication_details($document_reference) {
$access_token = get_access_token();
// OPS API credentials (details at http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/F3ECDCC915C9BCD8C1258060003AA712/$File/ops_v3.2_documentation_-_version_1.3.16_en.pdf)
$ops_url = $_ENV["OPS_URL"] . 'rest-services/published-data/publication/docdb/' . $document_reference . '/biblio';
// Set up API call
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ops_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Bearer $access_token", "Accept: application/json"));
// Give back curl result
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if (strpos($response,"No results found") === false ) {
// Turn the API response into useful Json
$json = json_decode($response);
// For each invention title, check if it's in the original language
foreach ($json->{'ops:world-patent-data'}->{'exchange-documents'}->{'exchange-document'}->{'bibliographic-data'}->{'invention-title'} as $invention_title){
if ($invention_title->{'@lang'} === 'ol'){
$output['original_title'] = $invention_title->{'$'};
}
}
// For each abstract, check if it's in the original language
foreach ($json->{'ops:world-patent-data'}->{'exchange-documents'}->{'exchange-document'}->{'abstract'} as $abstract){
if ($abstract->{'@lang'} === 'ol'){
$output['original_abstract'] = $abstract->p->{'$'};
}
}
return $output;
}
}
function check_for_images($document_reference) {
$access_token = get_access_token();
// OPS API credentials (details at http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/F3ECDCC915C9BCD8C1258060003AA712/$File/ops_v3.2_documentation_-_version_1.3.16_en.pdf)
$ops_url = $_ENV["OPS_URL"] . 'rest-services/published-data/publication/docdb/' . $document_reference . '/images';
// Set up API call
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ops_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Bearer $access_token"));
// Give back curl result
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if (strpos($response,"No results found") === false ) {
return $response;
}
}
function get_images($document_reference){
$access_token = get_access_token();
// OPS API credentials (details at http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/F3ECDCC915C9BCD8C1258060003AA712/$File/ops_v3.2_documentation_-_version_1.3.16_en.pdf)
$ops_url = $_ENV["OPS_URL"] . 'rest-services/published-data/publication/docdb/' . $document_reference . '/images';
// Set up API call
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ops_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Bearer $access_token"));
// Give back curl result
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if (strpos($response,"No results found") === false ) {
// Turn the API response into useful XML
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
// Retrieve image path from that XML
$drawings_url = $_ENV["OPS_URL_IMAGES"] . '3.2/rest-services/' . $xml->xpath("///ops:document-instance[@desc='Drawing']/@link")[0][0]->__toString() . '?Range=1';
// Set up API call
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $drawings_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Bearer $access_token","Accept: application/pdf"));
// Give back curl result
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// Return the PDF response
return $response;
}
}
?>