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

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JavaScript

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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 = { "maxItems": 10 }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("parselab/courtlistener-case-law-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 Case Law Search Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use CourtListener Case Law 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 Case Law Scraper API in JavaScript

CourtListener Case Law Scraper API through CLI

CourtListener Case Law Scraper OpenAPI definition

CourtListener Case Law Scraper API

CourtListener Scraper - Case Law & Legal Opinions API

pink_comic/courtlistener-legal-opinions

Search CourtListener case law and US legal opinions by keyword, court, date, citation, docket number, and publication status. Export source-linked case metadata, judges, citations, opinion types, snippets, and document URLs for legal research, monitoring, compliance, and RAG.

Ava Torres

CourtListener RAG Extractor

getascraper/courtlistener-rag-extractor

Extract SCOTUS and U.S. federal appeals opinions from CourtListener into normalized RAG-ready JSON with fixed-token chunks, metadata, citations, and summary fallback. Built for legal AI and litigation research pipelines. $0.03 per opinion.

GetAScraper

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CourtListener Opinion Scraper - US Court Case Law API

jungle_synthesizer/courtlistener-opinion-scraper

Crawl US court opinions from CourtListener (Free Law Project). 8M+ decisions from 3,350+ federal, state, and appellate courts. Filter by court, judge, date range, citation, or keyword. Returns case metadata, citations, precedential status, and opinion excerpts.

BowTiedRaccoon

CourtListener Scraper - Case Law, PACER Dockets & Judges

parseforge/courtlistener-docket-scraper

Queries all six CourtListener indexes live: 8.3M case law opinions, 8.8M federal PACER dockets, 60M RECAP filings, 15k judges and 102k oral arguments. Filter by court, date, party, docket number, citation, nature of suit or citation count. No API key needed.

ParseForge

CourtListener Citation Scraper - Case Law Citation Graph

parseforge/courtlistener-citation-scraper

Scrape US court opinions from CourtListener with every reporter citation, times-cited counts and the citation graph. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel or XML.

ParseForge

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.

Ponderable Hydrometer

CourtListener Scraper — US Case Law & Dockets

bovi/courtlistener-scraper

Scrape CourtListener (Free Law Project) — US court opinions, RECAP dockets and oral arguments with case name, court, date, docket number, citations and snippet. Full-text search filtered by court and type. Keyless API. Schedule as a case-law monitor. Pay per result.

Vitalii Bondarev

CourtListener Scraper - US Case Law & Opinions

scrapesage/courtlistener-scraper

Search US case law and court opinions via the free CourtListener API: case name, court, date filed, docket number, judge, parallel citations, cite count and precedential status. Search by keyword. No API key required. Independent tool, not affiliated with CourtListener.

Scrape Sage

CourtListener Scraper | 16 Fields, Opinions & Dockets

themineworks/courtlistener-court-records

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.

The Mine Works

CourtListener Scraper

maximedupre/courtlistener

Search public CourtListener opinions, federal RECAP dockets, and oral arguments with one full-text query. Filter supported records by court, dates, judges, citations, or docket numbers, then save structured records with source links.