Google Scholar Case Law Scraper
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Search and scrape US court opinions from Google Scholar's case law database. Filter by keywords, courts, and date ranges to collect case names, citations, courts, dates, snippets, "Cited by" counts, and links. Optionally fetch full opinion text from detail pages.
You can access the Google Scholar Case Law 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.
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 "query": "fourth amendment search and seizure",13 "court": "all",14 "dateStart": "",15 "dateEnd": "",16 "fetchFullText": False,17 "maxItems": 10,18}19
20# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish21run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/google-scholar-case-law-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)22
23# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)24print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])25for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():26 print(item)27
28# 📚 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 Google Scholar Case Law Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: