Search US federal court dockets — civil and criminal — from the RECAP/PACER archive
Search US federal court dockets — civil and criminal — from the RECAP/PACER archive. Full-text q (case name, party, e.g. "United States v. Bankman-Fried"), optional court (CourtListener court id like "cand", "nysd", "ca9"), filedAfter/filedBefore (YYYY-MM-DD), page. Or pass docketNumber (+ court) for exact lookup. Each docket: id, case name, court, docket number, date filed/terminated, nature of suit, assigned judge, public docket URL. Criminal-case research, litigation monitoring, KYC/due-diligence. Sibling endpoints: /api/law/case-search (opinions full-text), /api/law/opinion (full opinion text).
Provider
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Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x2b6D4988Db4723E6908Db86Ab2b8dFBc51FC32C5",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "12000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 60
},
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
"payTo": "TW6ntaGzvj63ZgPjszd4FCGmVTGfzv1MAYZbjYcyWhn",
"asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
"amount": "12000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 60
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"court": "nysd",
"q": "United States v. Bankman-Fried"
},
"type": "http"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"properties": {
"method": {
"const": "GET"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"court": {
"description": "CourtListener court id, e.g. \"cand\", \"nysd\", \"ca9\".",
"type": "string"
},
"docketNumber": {
"description": "Exact docket number, e.g. \"1:22-cr-00673\".",
"type": "string"
},
"filedAfter": {
"type": "string"
},
"filedBefore": {
"type": "string"
},
"page": {
"default": 1,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"q": {
"description": "Case name / party full-text query.",
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"type": {
"const": "http"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"queryParams"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
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