Japan Courts Judgment Scraper (saibansho / 裁判所)
Pricing
Pay per event
Extract Japanese court judgments from courts.go.jp (裁判所) — Supreme Court, lower courts, IP High Court, administrative, and labor cases. Returns case number, case name, ruling date (wareki + Gregorian), court, ruling type, result, and full-text PDF URL. Free alternative to Westlaw Japan.
You can access the Japan Courts Judgment Scraper (saibansho / 裁判所) 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",10 "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",11 "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",12 "searchType": "supreme",13 "caseNameKeyword": "",14 "caseNumber": "",15 "rulingDateFrom": "",16 "rulingDateTo": "",17 "courtName": "",18 "includeDetail": False,19 "maxItems": 50,20 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },21}22
23# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish24run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/courts-go-jp-hanrei-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)25
26# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)27print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])28for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():29 print(item)30
31# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Japan Courts Judgment Scraper (saibansho / 裁判所) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
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