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We’ll use Twin to find new patents filed in our industry, over the past week. This is a task that we could run periodically and then send a notification over email, Slack, etc., to stay updated on latest advancements in the field. As an example, we’ll use cryptography. 
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time
import requests

twin_key = "<your api key>"
browse_endpoint = "https://api.twin.so/browse"
task_endpoint = "http://api.twin.so/task/"

patent_websites = [
    "https://uspto.gov",
    "https://epo.org",
    "https://patents.google.com",
]

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Helpers

Let’s define some helpers to get the date from which we want to search, and to wait for the tasks for be completed 
today = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
monthago = (datetime.now() - timedelta(days=30)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

def wait_for_tasks(task_ids):
    outputs = []
    latest_actions = {task_id: None for task_id in task_ids}
    remaining_tasks = set(task_ids)

    while remaining_tasks:
        for task_id in list(remaining_tasks):
            response = requests.get(url=task_endpoint + task_id + "?limit=1", headers={"x-api-key": twin_key})
            data = response.json()
            
            if data["status"] in {"COMPLETED", "FAILED"}:
                outputs.append(data["output"])
                remaining_tasks.remove(task_id)
            elif data["steps"] and data["steps"][0]["action"] and latest_actions[task_id] != data["steps"][0]["action"]:
                latest_actions[task_id] = data["steps"][0]["action"]
                print(f"Task {task_id}: {latest_actions[task_id]}")
        
        time.sleep(1)
    
    return outputs

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Launch Twin

Let’s now launch Twin to search for patents 
def twin_search_patents():
    task_ids = []
    for website in patent_websites:
        response = requests.post(
            url=browse_endpoint,
            headers={"x-api-key": twin_key},
            json={
                "goal": f"Find the latest patents filed about cryptography since {monthago}",
                "startUrl": website,
            }
        )
        task_ids.append(response.json()["taskId"])
    return task_ids

task_ids = twin_search_patents()
print(task_ids)
patents = wait_for_tasks(task_ids)
for patent in patents:
    print(patent)
    print("\n\n")