You can access the CourtListener Legal Opinions & Dockets 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("litezero/courtlistener-legal-docket-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

CourtListener Legal Dockets & Opinions Scraper | Apify API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use CourtListener Legal Opinions & Dockets 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 Opinions & Dockets Scraper API in JavaScript

CourtListener Legal Opinions & Dockets Scraper API through CLI

CourtListener Legal Opinions & Dockets Scraper OpenAPI definition

CourtListener Legal Opinions & Dockets Scraper API

CourtListener Federal Docket Scraper — RECAP API

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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. No login or cookies. MCP-ready for AI agents. $4 per 1,000 records.

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Scrape US federal and state court opinions, case law, and dockets from CourtListener. Filter by query, court, and date. Get case name, judge, citations, docket number as structured JSON, no API key. Use it as an MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT & AI agents.

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CourtListener Case Law Search - Legal Opinions Diligence

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Ava Torres

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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 Legal Opinions & Dockets Scraper

chrisp1211/courtlistener-scraper-max

Scrape US legal opinions, dockets and judges from CourtListener. Search case law by keyword and court. Returns case name, court, date, citation and snippet. Optional token raises limits. Pay per result; empty runs free.

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Etsy Bestsellers, Keywords & Pricing Scraper

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Extract bestselling Etsy listings, shop names, prices, star ratings, review velocity, sales badges, and keyword tags for e-commerce arbitrage and SEO.

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Scrape US court opinions and legal records from CourtListener using full-text search queries. Extract case names, courts, filing dates, docket numbers, citations, and opinion URLs with support for opinions, RECAP records, oral arguments, and people searches.

Jamshaid Arif

CourtListener Scraper — Opinions, Dockets & Courts

logiover/courtlistener-scraper

Scrape US court opinions, dockets, and court info from CourtListener. Extract case names, judges, citations, rulings, docket numbers and full URLs. No API key required.

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CourtListener Scraper — US Case Law

ponderable_hydrometer/courtlistener-scraper

Search US court opinions and case law from CourtListener (Free Law Project) — case name, court, date, docket, citation and judge. Free, optional key for higher limits.