sections

Get Sections Batch

Read up to 10 clauses in one call, from one or several documents.

Each clause comes back as get_sections returns it with latest=true (one version: the given version, else the newest of the given release, else the newest indexed), plus its sub-clauses as numbers and titles only (all of them up to 40, else the direct ones). Results are in request order and each has a status: a missing clause does not fail the call; it gets nearest_sections, the closest existing clause numbers.

Quota: for REST and MCP this call counts as one request per clause (requests_counted), the same as calling get_sections once per clause. If fewer requests remain than clauses asked for, it fails with 402 before reading anything.

Excerpt limit: each clause carries at most 2,000 words of spec text, cut like get_sections with truncated=true and truncation_reason="word_limit"; read the rest at official_url.

Dates for prior art: each clause has provenance (3GPP archive upload time and approving TSG plenary of its version). available_before applies to every clause, like get_sections with latest=true: a clause that only exists in later versions gets status no_version_before_cutoff.

post/sections/batch

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.3gppscout.com (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
  • URL: https://api.3gppscout.com/sections/batch
  • Auth: none declared

Request body

available_beforestring date nullable

Only versions uploaded to the 3GPP archive before this date (YYYY-MM-DD; before 00:00 UTC, so the day itself is excluded), e.g. a patent application's priority date. A version whose upload time is unknown is left out. Usually one version per release of each spec is indexed (the newest in that release, Rel-15 onward), so a release appears only if that version predates the cutoff; older versions are in the 3GPP archive but not searchable here. Applies to every clause: a clause without version reads the newest version uploaded before the date.

Response

Successful Response

requests_countedinteger required

API requests this call counted toward the monthly quota: one per clause for REST and MCP.

Changes

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