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JohnHajian
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11 months ago
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How to work with USPTO website and create table based on JSON file

We have a database in Quickbase that stores records relating to patents..  We want to know if the following is feasible to do in Quickbase: .       Create a temp table based on Json returned form...
  • GregoryGebhardt's avatar
    11 months ago

    I believe this is possible although I dont think I haven't done this exactly, I have done all the pieces of this as some point.  Pipelines will be what you need to use. 

    1.The general methodology in pipelines would be to:
    fetch a JSON >iterate over Json Records> add Records to your Table.

    The rest  is done with reporting in Native Quickbase (sort & filter).  Your hardest part in my opinion will be fetching json IMO.


    Here are some other paths and thoughts but without building and testing I wouldn't know for sure the exact way.  Sometimes there are limitations in Pipelines sometimes limitations in your API call to get the json response.

    2. Fetch a JSON >define a table>iterate over Json Records>add rows to that table>download CSV>Fetch CSV>Iterate over CSV records> add Records to your Table

    or

    3. Webhook Make Request>iterate over records with Jinja code> ??



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