CourtListener puts US court opinions, RECAP dockets and argument audio under one search. Our CourtListener scraper turns them into one table keyed on court and docket number.
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CourtListener pages, filters, fields and a schedule
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You name the slice of case law you need - a set of courts, a date range, a nature of suit, a citation list or a keyword query - and we build the crawl, run it and keep it working when CourtListener changes its pages. Anti-bot handling - pacing, proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling and rendering - is part of the service, not a problem you inherit.
Runs are one-off or on the schedule you set: daily for a docket watch, weekly for a court's new opinions. Each delivery keeps CourtListener's own opinion and docket ids, so a case stays one row from run to run, and field documentation comes with the first file. A free project assessment tells you what a run covers before you commit. Plans start from EUR 169 a month, or EUR 199 for a one-time extract.
A CourtListener scraper reads three kinds of record, and each has the id CourtListener prints in its addresses: an opinion id under /opinion/, a docket id under /docket/ and an argument id under /audio/. We keep those ids next to the docket number the court assigned, so the opinion, the docket entries and the recording of one case join on two keys.
Private individuals named as parties, and attorney names, stay out of the default dataset; companies and agencies named as parties are kept. This is case and court data, and we do not build profiles of people.
Coverage is planned court by court. The jurisdiction picker splits courts into Federal Appellate, Federal District, Bankruptcy and State tabs, with the bankruptcy appellate panels on the Bankruptcy tab, U.S. territory courts on the State tab, and military, tribal, special federal and historical courts under More. Every court has a short code such as scotus, ca9 or cadc. We slice by those codes and by filing date, then merge on the opinion id.
The search filters double as scoping tools: case name, judge, citation, neutral citation, docket number and minimum or maximum cites for opinions; nature of suit, cause, document description, entry date and document number for RECAP. Sorting by Most Cited First or Newest Cases First turns the same query into a citation ranking or a newest-first timeline.
Dockets are where repeat runs pay off. The RECAP Archive is filled by PACER users who run the RECAP extension, so a docket grows as documents arrive, and an entry may show only a Buy on PACER button until someone adds its file. We revisit tracked dockets on your schedule and record each new entry and each newly attached document with the date we first saw it - a running history of the case rather than a snapshot.
CourtListener is a free legal research site run by Free Law Project, a federally recognised 501(c)(3) non-profit in the United States. It calls itself a legal search engine and alert system, and its menu shows five collections: Case Law, RECAP Archive, Oral Arguments, Judges and Financial Disclosures.
Case Law holds federal and state court opinions, downloaded from many jurisdictions on an ongoing basis; the homepage lists the latest ones with date filed, status and docket number. The RECAP Archive is different in kind: it holds PACER dockets and documents from the federal courts, contributed by users of the RECAP browser extension, which is why one docket can be complete and the next one sparse. Oral Arguments holds courtroom audio from the courts that post it, each recording with its length and panel. Judges is a directory of the bench with positions, appointments and selection methods.
For a data buyer the value is in the links. An opinion points to the authorities it cites and to later opinions citing it, a docket points to its entries and documents, and the docket number ties an opinion, a docket and an argument to the same case. A Look Up Citations tool resolves a citation string to its opinion, which is how a citation list becomes a dataset.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsCase law is read one case at a time; the questions buyers ask need thousands of cases at once.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt CourtListener API returns case name, court, date filed, citations, docket number and new docket entries as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same records also come as CSV or XLSX files, a JSON feed or a load into your database.
Yes. Opinions, RECAP dockets, oral argument recordings and judge records are open on CourtListener to anyone without an account. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on CourtListener - and we collect it legally. Private individuals named as parties stay out of the default dataset.
Any court in its jurisdiction picker: the Supreme Court and the federal circuits, federal district and bankruptcy courts, state and U.S. territory courts, and the military, tribal and special courts listed under More. We scope by court code and date filed, so a run can be one circuit or all state courts, and each row keeps the court name and code.
New opinions and oral arguments arrive on an ongoing basis as courts publish them, and RECAP dockets change whenever a PACER user adds documents. Daily runs suit docket watches and new-opinion feeds; weekly or monthly runs suit research corpora. Each row carries the date we first saw it, so a refresh adds and updates rows instead of rebuilding the table.
Both, where the archive has them. Every entry comes with document number, date filed and description, and when the RECAP Archive holds the PDF we deliver the file or its extracted text. Entries that show only a Buy on PACER button come as entry data without the document.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
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