freelawproject/juriscraper

An API to scrape American court websites for metadata.

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This tool helps legal professionals, researchers, and journalists gather judicial opinions, oral arguments, and PACER data from American court websites. It takes the URLs of various federal and state court sites as input and provides structured metadata and document links as output. It's designed for anyone needing to systematically collect public court records.

557 stars. Actively maintained with 86 commits in the last 30 days.

Use this if you need to programmatically collect and analyze legal documents and metadata from a wide range of US federal and state court websites.

Not ideal if you're looking for a simple point-and-click interface for occasional document retrieval rather than a programmatic data collection solution.

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Maturity 16 / 25
Community 25 / 25

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557

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147

Language

HTML

License

BSD-2-Clause

Category

scraper

Last pushed

Mar 27, 2026

Commits (30d)

86

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