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CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases

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Search federal court opinions and case records from CourtListener (Free Law Project). Filter by court, keyword, date range, and precedential status. Covers SCOTUS, federal circuit courts, and district courts. Free; optional API token for higher rate limits.

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$1.00 / 1,000 dataset item scrapeds

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Harry Schoeller

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You can access the CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {};
11
12// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
13const run = await client.actor("commonelements/courtlistener-cases").call(input);
14
15// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
16console.log('Results from dataset');
17console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
18const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
19items.forEach((item) => {
20    console.dir(item);
21});
22
23// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

CourtListener Federal Court Opinions Search API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases API in Python

CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases API through CLI

CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases OpenAPI definition

CourtListener — Federal Court Opinions & Cases API

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