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Court Records & Case Law Scraper — Dockets + Opinions

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Search US federal court dockets (PACER/RECAP mirror) and published opinions via CourtListener's free public API — no API key, no registration. 39 flat fields incl. parties, attorneys, firms, judge, filing entries and citations. Incremental watch mode. $0.002/result, no start fee.

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Search query

query

Optional

Full-text search across case names, party/attorney names, docket text and opinion bodies. Supports quoted phrases ("fair use") and boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). Leave empty to browse everything matching the other filters.

Type:string

Default:patent infringement

Record type

recordType

Optional

Which CourtListener index to search. Dockets are the PACER/RECAP mirror (federal case dockets with parties, attorneys and filing entries). Opinions are published court decisions with citations. They are separate indexes — a case in one is often absent from the other.

Type:string

Default:both

Options:

bothopinionsdockets

Courts

courts

Optional

CourtListener court IDs — the short slug in a courtlistener.com/court// URL. Examples: "scotus" (Supreme Court), "ca9" (9th Circuit), "cand" (N.D. Cal.), "cacb" (Bankr. C.D. Cal.), "nysd" (S.D.N.Y.). 400+ federal and state courts exist. Leave empty for all courts. An unrecognised ID is not rejected upstream — it silently matches nothing.

Type:array

Filed after

filedAfter

Optional

Earliest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty for no lower bound (the opinion archive reaches back to the 1700s).

Type:string

Filed before

filedBefore

Optional

Latest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty for no upper bound.

Type:string

CourtListener search URL

startUrl

Optional

Optional shortcut: build the search on courtlistener.com, then paste the address bar here — e.g. "https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=patent&type=r&court=cand&filed_after=2024-01-01". An API URL ("https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=patent&type=o") works too — both use the same parameters. Whatever the URL mentions (search query, court(s), filed-after/before dates) REPLACES the matching field below; anything it doesn't mention still comes from the fields below. Only Opinions (type=o) and RECAP (type=r) URLs are supported — CourtListener's Oral Arguments/Judges/Parenthetical searches are different record shapes this Actor does not cover. Max results and the watch label always apply regardless.

Type:string

Max results

maxResults

Optional

Stop after this many records. With recordType "both" the budget is shared across the two indexes (opinions first, then dockets).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20000

Default:100

Watch label (incremental mode)

watchLabel

Optional

Optional. Name this saved search to get ONLY records that are new since its last run. The first run on a label records the current matches as a baseline and returns zero results (you are charged nothing); every run after that returns only what appeared since. Changing any filter starts a fresh baseline under the same label. Leave empty for a normal one-off run.

Type:string

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