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CourtListener Legal Case Scraper

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Scrape US court opinions, RECAP federal dockets, and oral arguments from CourtListener.com with the largest free legal database with 4M+ opinions, SCOTUS to district courts. Search by keyword, court, date range, and more. No API key required.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 results

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5.0

(11)

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Crawler Gang

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You can access the CourtListener Legal Case Scraper 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.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "mode": "opinions",
10    "searchQuery": "criminal defense",
11    "court": "",
12    "orderBy": "score desc",
13    "status": "",
14    "maxItems": 50,
15}
16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18run = client.actor("crawlergang/courtlistener-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
19
20# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
21print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
22for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
23    print(item)
24
25# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

CourtListener Legal Case Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use CourtListener Legal Case Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

CourtListener Legal Case Scraper API in JavaScript

CourtListener Legal Case Scraper API through CLI

CourtListener Legal Case Scraper OpenAPI definition

CourtListener Legal Case Scraper API

CourtListener Legal Case Scraper

crawlerbros/courtlistener-scraper

Scrape US court opinions, RECAP federal dockets, and oral arguments from CourtListener.com — the largest free legal database with 4M+ opinions, SCOTUS to district courts. Search by keyword, court, date range, and more. No API key required.

Crawler Bros

5.0

(16)

US Court Records & Legal Opinions

lulzasaur/court-records-scraper

Search US court records and legal opinions via CourtListener. Find opinions by keyword, case name, judge, date range, or court. Search dockets by party or case number. Get full opinion text and citations.

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CourtListener Legal Data Scraper

fortuitous_pirate/courtlistener-legal-data

Fetch US court data from CourtListener API. Search opinions, dockets, RECAP documents, and oral arguments. Filter by court (SCOTUS, Circuit Courts), date range, and keywords. Get case names, citations, judges, and filing dates. No API key needed.

Fortuitous Pirate

CourtListener Legal Data Scraper

alwaysprimedev/courtlistener-scraper

Scrape U.S. federal & state case law, RECAP dockets, oral arguments, and judges from CourtListener (Free Law Project). Powered by the official REST API — no scraping, no proxies, no captchas.

Always Prime

CourtListener RAG Extractor

devanshlive/courtlistener-rag-extractor

Extract SCOTUS and U.S. federal appeals opinions from CourtListener into normalized RAG-ready JSON with fixed-token chunks, metadata, citations, and summary fallback. Built for legal AI and litigation research pipelines. $0.03 per opinion.

Devansh Tiwari

⚖️ Court Records Search — Public Case Data

nexgendata/court-records-search

Search public court records across jurisdictions — case details, filings, parties & outcomes. PACER & CourtListener alternative for legal research, KYC, due diligence and compliance teams. Pay per search, no subscription.

Stephan Corbeil

Courtlistener Court Opinions Data

fortuitous_pirate/courtlistener-court-opinions-data

Courtlistener Court Opinions Data. Structured data export for lead generation, enrichment, and competitive research.

Fortuitous Pirate

Court Records Scraper

automation-lab/court-records-scraper

Search and extract federal court records from CourtListener. Find court opinions, dockets, and case parties by keyword, court, and date. No API key needed. 400+ courts covered.

Stas Persiianenko

⚖️ CourtListener Federal Docket Scraper — RECAP

nexgendata/courtlistener-federal-docket-scraper

Scrape federal court dockets via CourtListener / Free Law Project — case name, docket number, court, parties, attorneys, filings, hearing schedule, jurisdiction. PACER alternative for litigation paralegals, legal-tech, e-discovery vendors, journalists tracking federal litigation.

Stephan Corbeil

Courtlistener Business Bankruptcy Filings Scraper

parseforge/business-bankruptcy-filings-scraper

Scrape US business bankruptcy filings from public court records online. Collect case names, chapters, courts, filing dates, judges, docket numbers, attorneys, law firms, parties, trustees, and PACER case IDs. Filter by keyword, chapter type, date range, and court. For credit risk and legal research.