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PACER RSS Docket Monitor

PACER RSS Docket Monitor

Monitor the latest PACER federal court docket entries across multiple courts. Filter by case numbers or keywords, deduplicate results across runs, and receive only new docket updates with parsed entry details and timestamps.

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Jamshaid Arif

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Apify actor that pulls the latest docket entries from federal courts

Why it's more than a feed reader

  • Multiple courts per run["cand", "nysd", "txed"]
  • Filters — keep only entries matching keywords ("apple", "motion to dismiss") and/or case-number substrings ("3:26-cv-01234"); filters combine as OR.
  • Cross-run dedup — set deduplicationStoreName (e.g. pacer-seen) and schedule the actor every 15-30 min: each run pushes only new docket entries. Wire the dataset to a webhook/notification and you have a free docket-alerting pipeline for the cases you track.
  • Parsed entries — the raw [~Util - Set/Reset Hearings] ( 16 ) descriptions are split into entry_type + document_number, and RFC-822 dates get ISO twins (published_iso).

Example input

{
"courts": ["cand", "nysd"],
"filterCaseNumbers": ["3:26-cv-01234"],
"filterKeywords": ["securities"],
"deduplicationStoreName": "pacer-seen",
"maxEntriesPerCourt": 200
}

Example output item

{
"court": "cand",
"case_number": "5:26-mj-70393-1",
"case_name": "USA v. Nambiar",
"entry": "[~Util - Set/Reset Hearings] ( 16 )",
"entry_type": "Util - Set/Reset Hearings",
"document_number": 16,
"link": "https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?467379",
"published": "Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:29:57 GMT",
"published_iso": "2026-07-16T18:29:57Z",
"fetched_at": "2026-07-17T12:00:00Z"
}

Run summary (pushed / already-seen / filtered counts + errors) is stored under key SUMMARY.

Court codes

District codes are state + district, e.g. cand (N.D. Cal), nysd (S.D.N.Y.), nyed (E.D.N.Y.), txed (E.D. Tex), txwd (W.D. Tex), ded (D. Del), ilnd (N.D. Ill), flsd (S.D. Fla), wawd (W.D. Wash). Bankruptcy courts append b: candb, nysb, deb. Appellate: ca1ca11, cadc, cafc.

Not every court enables the public feed — a 404 means that court doesn't publish one; the actor reports it as a per-court error and continues. Feeds typically contain only the last few hours of activity, so schedule accordingly (every 15-60 min for monitoring).