⚖️ JusBrasil Court Scraper — Brazilian Jurisprudence & Court Decisions

🎯 Pull full Brazilian court decisions and case law from JusBrasil in clean, structured JSON — by keyword, process number, or court.

This scraper searches JusBrasil's jurisprudence database and collects complete decisions from the STF, STJ, TST, state Courts of Justice (TJ) and Federal Regional Courts (TRF). For every ruling you get the full ementa (summary), the acórdão (decision text), an AI-generated plain-language summary, the judging body, the rapporteur, judgment and publication dates, and links to the full-text document.

🚀 What Does It Do?

This scraper automatically searches Brazilian jurisprudence and collects structured, ready-to-use data for every court decision it finds. No manual browsing, no copy-paste — just set your keywords and hit Start.

💡 Two modes of operation:

1. 🔍 Discovery Mode — Enter a search term (e.g. "responsabilidade civil") or a CNJ process number, optionally pick a court, and the scraper gathers matching decisions across as many result pages as you need.
2. 📋 Direct URL Mode — Paste specific JusBrasil search or decision URLs and the scraper extracts exactly those.

👥 Who Is This For?

🏢 Use Case	💬 How It Helps
⚖️ Lawyers & Law Firms	Build precedent files in minutes — find the rulings that support your case across every major court
📚 Legal Researchers & Academics	Collect large, structured samples of case law for studies, papers and citation analysis
🤖 Legal-Tech & NLP Teams	Feed clean ementa and acórdão text into models for classification, summarization and search
📰 Journalists & Analysts	Track how courts rule on a topic over time and surface patterns across tribunals
🏛️ Compliance & Risk Teams	Monitor judicial trends on liability, consumer law and regulatory matters

✨ Features

• 🌐 Every Major Court — STF, STJ, TST, state TJ courts and federal TRF regions, all from one search
• 📜 Full Decision Text — Complete ementa (summary) and acórdão (ruling), not just snippets
• 🧠 AI Summary Included — A plain-language summary of each decision, ready to skim
• 🏷️ Rich Metadata — Judging body, rapporteur, instance, judgment & publication dates, precedent flags
• 🔢 CNJ Process Lookup — Search by process number, not just keywords
• 🎛️ Smart Filters — Narrow results to a single court, set a page cap, choose fast or full-detail mode
• ⚡ Fast & Scalable — Collect dozens to hundreds of decisions per run; first results in under a minute
• 🧹 Clean, Deduplicated Output — No duplicate decisions, consistent camelCase fields, ISO dates
• 📤 Export Anywhere — Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your CRM

🎛️ Filters & Options

Option	What It Does
🔎 Search Query	The keywords to search jurisprudence for (e.g. dano moral, improbidade administrativa)
🏛️ Court / Tribunal	Restrict results to one court (STJ, STF, TST, TJSP, TJRJ, TRF1–5 and more)
🔢 Process Number	Look up a specific case by its CNJ process number
📜 Fetch Full Text	On: full ementa, acórdão, references and AI summary. Off: faster, lighter listing data
📄 Max Search Pages	How many result pages to page through per search
🔢 Max Results	Control how many decisions to extract per run
🔗 Direct URLs	Optionally provide specific JusBrasil search or decision URLs to scrape

📦 What You Get (Output Fields)

Every decision includes:

Case Identification

Field	Example
title	Superior Tribunal de Justiça STJ - RECURSO ESPECIAL: REsp XXXXX RS
court	STJ
courtName	Superior Tribunal de Justiça
instance	Superior Court
state	MG
proceduralClass	Apelação Cível
processNumber	0012345-67.2019.8.13.0024
type	ACORDAO
docId	1554600400

Decision Content

Field	Example
subject	ADMINISTRATIVO. RESPONSABILIDADE CIVIL DO ESTADO POR OMISSÃO...
decisions	["Vistos e relatados estes autos, acordam os Ministros da Turma..."]
decisionSummary	No recurso especial, a parte buscou a condenação da Fundação ao pagamento de indenização...
keywords	Constituição Federal de 1988, Art. 37; Lei nº 8.078/1990

People & Parties

Field	Example
judge	Ministro RICARDO VILLAS BÔAS CUEVA
judgingBody	T2 - SEGUNDA TURMA
parties	["Recorrente: Fazenda Pública"]
lawyers	["OAB/SP 123456"]

Dates, Flags & Valuation

Field	Example
judgmentDate	2022-05-24
publicationDate	DJe 24/06/2022
readingTimeMinutes	75
isMeritDecision	false
isAdmissibilityDecision	false
isMandatoryPrecedent	false
isHistoryPrecedent	false
claimValue	R$ 50.000,00

References & Links

Field	Example
processUrl	https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/jurisprudencia/stj/1554600400
inteiroTeorFile	STJ_RESP_1708325_c4d00.pdf
lawReferences	["Art. 37 da Constituição Federal"]
decisionReferences	["REsp 1.234.567/SP"]
relatedProcesses	[]
score	0
slug	recurso-especial-resp-1708325-rs-2015-0273254-9
source	jusbrasil
scrapedAt	2026-06-29T14:56:20.895Z

📊 Example Output

{
    "title": "Superior Tribunal de Justiça STJ - RECURSO ESPECIAL: REsp XXXXX RS",
    "court": "STJ",
    "courtName": "Superior Tribunal de Justiça",
    "instance": "Superior Court",
    "state": null,
    "proceduralClass": "REsp XXXXX RS",
    "processNumber": null,
    "type": "ACORDAO",
    "docId": "1554600400",
    "judgingBody": "T2 - SEGUNDA TURMA",
    "judge": "Ministro RICARDO VILLAS BÔAS CUEVA",
    "subject": "ADMINISTRATIVO. RECURSO ESPECIAL. RESPONSABILIDADE CIVIL DO ESTADO POR OMISSÃO. MORTE EM DECORRÊNCIA DE DISPARO DE ARMA DE FOGO...",
    "decisions": [
        "Vistos e relatados estes autos em que são partes as acima indicadas, acordam os Ministros da Turma, por unanimidade, dar provimento ao recurso..."
    ],
    "decisionSummary": "No recurso especial, a parte buscou a condenação ao pagamento de indenização por danos morais e materiais decorrentes...",
    "keywords": "Constituição Federal de 1988, Art. 37; Lei nº 8.078/1990",
    "parties": [],
    "lawyers": [],
    "claimValue": null,
    "isMeritDecision": false,
    "isAdmissibilityDecision": false,
    "isMandatoryPrecedent": false,
    "isHistoryPrecedent": false,
    "judgmentDate": "2022-05-24",
    "publicationDate": "DJe 24/06/2022",
    "readingTimeMinutes": 75,
    "inteiroTeorFile": "STJ_RESP_1708325_c4d00.pdf",
    "lawReferences": [],
    "decisionReferences": [],
    "relatedProcesses": [],
    "processUrl": "https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/jurisprudencia/stj/1554600400",
    "slug": "recurso-especial-resp-1708325-rs-2015-0273254-9",
    "score": 0,
    "sourceType": "jurisprudencia",
    "source": "jusbrasil",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-29T14:56:20.895Z"
}

📋 Dataset Views

The Apify Console gives you 4 ready-made table views to quickly browse your results:

View	What It Shows
📊 Overview	Title, court, judging body, rapporteur and dates — the at-a-glance list
⚖️ Legal & Parties	Court, process, instance, rapporteur, parties, lawyers, claim value and dates
📜 Decision Content	Ementa, AI summary, ruling text and the full-text file
📋 Full Details	Every single field — the complete dataset

❓ FAQ

🤔 Which courts are covered? The STF, STJ and TST (superior courts), every state Court of Justice (TJSP, TJRJ, TJMG, TJRS, TJPR and the rest), and all five Federal Regional Courts (TRF1–TRF5) — anything indexed in JusBrasil's jurisprudence collection.

🤔 Can I search by process number? Yes — enter a CNJ process number instead of keywords and the scraper looks it up. Note that for anonymous access some process numbers are masked by the source.

🤔 Why are some fields (lawyers, parties, full process number) empty? JusBrasil shows full ementa and acórdão text publicly, but masks certain personal details (party names, lawyers, complete process numbers) unless you are logged in. The scraper returns everything that is publicly available.

🤔 Do I get the full decision text or just a summary? Both. You get the full ementa and acórdão text, plus a plain-language AI summary. Turn off "Fetch Full Text" for a faster run that returns just the listing-level fields.

🤔 Can I export the data? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, RSS. You can also push data directly to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or any webhook/API endpoint.

🤔 How often should I run this? For fresh case law, run daily or weekly. You can schedule automatic runs on Apify with just a few clicks.

🤔 Does it work with proxies? Yes — Brazilian residential proxies are recommended and used by default for the best results, via Apify's built-in proxy service.

🛠️ Need Custom Filters or Features?

I'm happy to customize this scraper for your specific needs! 🤝

Whether you need:

• 🎯 Additional filters (by date range, judging body, decision type, or specific rapporteur)
• 📊 Extra data fields or custom output formats
• 🔄 Integration with your CRM, Google Sheets, or database
• ⏰ Scheduled scraping with automatic deduplication and change tracking
• 🌐 Scraping from other Brazilian legal sources alongside JusBrasil

👉 Don't hesitate to reach out via private message — I respond quickly and I'm always open to building exactly what you need. No request is too small or too specific!

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Use

This scraper collects only publicly available information from JusBrasil. It does not access private data, bypass authentication, or retrieve login-gated content. Please use the data responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws and platform terms of service.