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CourtListener State Court Dockets Scraper

parseforge/courtlistener-dockets-scraper

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Pull recent state court docket entries from CourtListener. Extracts case name, docket number, court, date filed, status, and citation for each matter. Ideal for legal researchers tracking new filings or monitoring specific jurisdictions without manual browsing.

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Overview

CourtListener Dockets Scraper

Scrape court opinions and dockets from CourtListener.com.

Features

  • Search for opinions by query
  • Order results by date filed, relevance, etc.
  • Extract title, court, date filed, status, docket number, and citations

Usage

  1. Create a new task or run the actor directly.
  2. Provide the search query and optional parameters.
  3. The actor returns a dataset with the scraped opinions.

Input

Field Type Description
searchQuery string Search query for opinions
orderBy string Order results (e.g., dateFiled desc)
maxItems number Maximum number of items to return

Output

Each item contains:

  • title - Opinion title
  • url - URL to the opinion
  • court - Court name
  • dateFiled - Date filed
  • status - Status of the opinion
  • docketNumber - Docket number
  • citation - Citation (if available)
  • scrapedAt - Timestamp of scraping

Pricing

This actor is priced per result. You can run it on a free plan (limited to 10 items) or upgrade to a paid plan for up to 1,000,000 items.

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💰 How much does it cost to scrape CourtListener State Court Dockets?

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: $0.01321 per result collected. You are billed only for the results you receive, so a run that returns nothing costs nothing.

Input

FieldTypeWhat it doesDefault
searchQuery string Enter a keyword or case name to filter dockets. Leave empty to scrape the latest filings across all state courts. not set
orderBy string (3 options) Choose how results are sorted. dateFiled desc shows the newest dockets first. dateFiled desc
maxItems integer Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000 10

Pricing

from $11.95 per 1,000 results

Charged forWhat it isPrice each
result Single result in the default dataset. $0.01195 to $0.01321

Tiered: the lower figure is the price on a higher Apify plan. Billing and the free credit live on Apify.

API

One POST returns the dataset directly. Same shape for every scraper in the library, so swapping the slug is the only change.

POST · run and get results
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~courtlistener-dockets-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "helloWorld": 123
  }'

Examples

Input that runs as-is.

input.json
{
  "helloWorld": 123
}

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Issues

We build and maintain this scraper, so a problem with it comes to us. Report it on the Apify listing and the thread stays attached to the scraper where the next person can find it: open an issue.

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