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CourtListener Civil Cases Scraper - PACER by Nature of Suit

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Federal civil cases from the RECAP archive, filtered by JS-44 nature of suit, cause of action, court, party and date. Criminal and bankruptcy records are dropped. Returns cases, filings or case law with parties, counsel and firms. No API key needed.

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dataset

Optional

Cases returns one row per federal civil docket with the filings that matched your query attached. Dockets is the same case row without the document list. Filings returns one row per document. Opinions returns published case law instead of PACER dockets.

Type:string

Default:cases

Options:

casesdocketsfilingsopinions

Max Items

maxItems

Optional

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000. Split evenly across the selected nature-of-suit codes. Leave empty on a paid plan for 100 rows.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000000

Nature of suit category

suitCategories

Optional

Pick whole JS-44 groups instead of memorising codes. Each category expands to its nature-of-suit codes and is searched in turn. Leave empty to take every civil case. Not supported by the opinions dataset, where CourtListener ignores the filter.

Type:string[]

Nature of suit codes

natureOfSuitCodes

Optional

Exact JS-44 codes, for example 830 for patent, 850 for securities or 442 for employment discrimination. Each code is searched separately and the results are merged, with the row budget split between them. Combines with the categories above. Not supported by the opinions dataset.

Type:array

Search query

query

Optional

Full-text query across the case caption, parties and filing text. Supports quoted phrases and AND/OR/NOT. Leave empty to browse with the filters alone.

Type:string

Cause of action

cause

Optional

The statute the complaint is brought under, as PACER writes it, for example "28:1332 Diversity" or "42:1983". Words are matched, so "civil rights" works too.

Type:string

Court ID

court

Optional

Restrict to one court by its CourtListener ID, for example cand, nysd, txed or ca9. Space-separate several IDs to match any of them.

Type:string

Filed on or after

filedAfter

Optional

Earliest filing date, as MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.

Type:string

Filed on or before

filedBefore

Optional

Latest filing date, as MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.

Type:string

Case name

caseName

Optional

Match words in the case caption, for example "smith" or "united states".

Type:string

Docket number

docketNumber

Optional

Exact docket number, for example 1:20-cv-03590.

Type:string

Party name

partyName

Optional

Name of a party to the case, for example Google or "United States".

Type:string

Docket entry text

entryDescription

Optional

Match words in the docket entry description, for example complaint, motion or judgment.

Type:string

Document number

documentNumber

Optional

Filter to a specific document number within the docket, for example 1 for the complaint.

Type:string

Only cases with free PDFs

availableOnly

Optional

Keep only cases whose filings are already in the free RECAP archive rather than paywalled behind PACER.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Civil cases only

civilOnly

Optional

Drop criminal cases and bankruptcy petitions, which share the PACER index with civil cases. On by default: without it most of the unfiltered feed is bankruptcy. The document index does not expose the case type, so for filings pick a nature-of-suit code instead.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include the full docket timeline

includeTimeline

Optional

Look up every docket entry for each case, not just the ones that matched the query. Adds the timeline and timelineEntryCount columns and costs one extra request per case, so runs are slower.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Timeline entries per case

timelineLimit

Optional

How many docket entries to attach when the timeline is on. Older entries come first.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:100

Default:20

Sort order

orderBy

Optional

How to order results. Relevance only means anything when a search query is set.

Type:string

Default:dateFiled desc

Options:

dateFiled descdateFiled ascscore descentry_date_filed descentry_date_filed ascciteCount desc

CourtListener API key (optional)

courtListenerKey

Optional

A free CourtListener API key (Profile > API on courtlistener.com) lifts the anonymous throttle and makes long runs faster. Leave empty to run anonymously.

Type:string

Proxy

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Off by default: the CourtListener API is open. Turn it on for long anonymous runs so each request gets a fresh exit IP and its own throttle allowance. Not used when an API key is supplied.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": false
}

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