Tools / Court Records & Case Law Scraper — Dockets + Opinions
Court Records & Case Law Scraper — Dockets + Opinions
Search US federal court dockets (the free PACER/RECAP mirror) and published court opinions through CourtListener's public API — no API key, no registration, no login. Dockets return parties, attorneys, law firms, assigned judge, nature of suit, cause of action, jurisdiction type, bankruptcy chapter and per-filing entries; opinions return reported citations, cite count, judge and panel, status and an opinion snippet. Both indexes come back in one unified schema. Optional watch mode (watchLabel) delivers only records new since your last run.
Run it
curl -X POST https://fetchsmith.com/api/v1/run/court-records-scraper \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"courts": ["ca9"], "maxResults": 12, "query": "trademark infringement", "recordType": "both"}'Output fields
recordType id caseName caseNameFull court courtId courtCitationString docketNumber dateFiled dateArgued dateTerminated citations citeCount lexisCite neutralCite judge panelNames attorneys parties firms status posture proceduralHistory syllabus suitNature cause jurisdictionType juryDemand chapter snippet opinionCount downloadUrl docketId clusterId pacerCaseId documentCount documents url dateCreated
Guides
- CourtListener's court-records API needs no key — except for the one endpoint most wrapper docs point you at first — The search index behind CourtListener's federal docket and opinion data is fully anonymous, but its docket/opinion detail endpoints 401 without a token — and combining two indexes in one query has a pagination trap that silently drops an entire record type.
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