⚖️ Harvard Caselaw Access Project Scraper

🚀 Export Caselaw Access Project data in seconds. Historical US court opinions from Harvard Library, with citation, court, date, judges, and full opinion text.

The Harvard Caselaw Access Project Scraper turns the public Caselaw Access Project dataset into a clean, structured export. It hits the source directly with a real browser fingerprint and flattens results into a CSV/Excel/JSON/JSONL/XML-ready format.

Historical US court opinions from Harvard Library, with citation, court, date, judges, and full opinion text.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
⚖️ Lawyers	Historical precedent research
🤖 LegalAI	Build training corpora
🏛️ Academics	Empirical legal studies
📰 Journalists	Reference court history

📋 What this scraper does

• Connects to the public Caselaw Access Project source.
• Applies your filters and pagination.
• Normalizes records into a flat row schema with imageUrl first and error last.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: the upstream source is free to browse, but you need clean rows for spreadsheets, BI tools, or LLM pipelines. This scraper does the plumbing.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: caseName, citation, court, decisionDate, jurisdiction, results, scrapedAt, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: free users are capped at 10 items per run. Upgrade to a paid plan for up to 1,000,000 items per run. The scraper only returns what the public source actually exposes.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor in the Apify console.
3. Fill in the input form and click Start.
4. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

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Disclaimer: This scraper accesses public data only. It does not bypass authentication, paywalls, or anti-bot systems. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the data complies with the source's terms of service and applicable law.

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