CourtListener Search API
The Search API from CourtListener — 3 operation(s) for search.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: CourtListener REST Alerts Search API
description: REST API providing programmatic access to US court opinions, PACER docket data, judge records, financial disclosures, oral argument audio, citation lookup and network analysis, search alerts, and case visualizations. Operated by the Free Law Project.
version: '4.4'
contact:
name: Free Law Project
url: https://free.law/contact/
email: info@free.law
license:
name: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
termsOfService: https://free.law/terms/
servers:
- url: https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4
description: CourtListener REST API v4 (current)
- url: https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v1
description: CourtListener REST API v1 (legacy)
security:
- tokenAuth: []
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
/search/:
get:
summary: Runs advanced search
description: Provides an advanced search via solr
operationId: search
tags:
- Search
parameters:
- name: format
in: query
description: response format for calls (XML,JSON,JSONP)
required: false
schema:
type: string
- name: fields
in: query
description: common delimited fields for return fields
required: false
schema:
type: string
- name: order_by
in: query
description: which field to order results by
required: false
schema:
type: string
- name: limit
in: query
description: number of records to limit response listing by (1000 max)
required: false
schema:
type: string
- name: absolute_url
in: query
description: pull the detail for an opinion
required: false
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/opinion'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'429':
$ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
/api/rest/v4/search/:
get:
summary: List Search
description: Full-text search across opinions, dockets, and oral arguments
operationId: listSearch
tags:
- Search
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/cursor'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/order_by'
- name: fields
in: query
description: Comma-separated list of fields to include in the response
required: false
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Paginated list of search
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginatedResponse'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'429':
$ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
/api/rest/v4/search/{id}/:
get:
summary: Retrieve Search
description: Retrieve a single search by ID
operationId: retrieveSearch
tags:
- Search
parameters:
- name: id
in: path
required: true
description: Unique identifier for the search
schema:
type: integer
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
responses:
'200':
description: Single search record
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'429':
$ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
responses:
NotFound:
description: Resource not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
detail:
type: string
Unauthorized:
description: Authentication required
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
detail:
type: string
RateLimited:
description: Rate limit exceeded
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
detail:
type: string
parameters:
cursor:
name: cursor
in: query
description: Cursor for pagination
required: false
schema:
type: string
order_by:
name: order_by
in: query
description: Field to order results by
required: false
schema:
type: string
format:
name: format
in: query
description: Response format (json, xml, html)
required: false
schema:
type: string
enum:
- json
- xml
- html
schemas:
opinion:
type: object
description: CourtListener opinion object
properties:
absolute_url:
type: string
blocked:
type: boolean
citation:
type: array
citation_count:
type: integer
court:
type: string
date_blocked:
type: string
format: date
date_filed:
type: string
format: date
date_modified:
type: string
format: date
download_URL:
type: string
extracted_by_ocr:
type: string
id:
type: integer
judges:
type: string
local_path:
type: string
nature_of_suit:
type: string
pagerank:
type: integer
format: int64
precedential_status:
type: string
resource_uri:
type: string
sha1:
type: string
source:
type: string
time_retrieved:
type: string
format: date
PaginatedResponse:
type: object
description: Standard paginated list response
properties:
count:
type: integer
description: Total number of results
next:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: uri
description: URL to next page
previous:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: uri
description: URL to previous page
results:
type: array
items: {}
securitySchemes:
tokenAuth:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: Authorization
description: 'Token-based authentication. Format: ''Token <your_token>'''
basicAuth:
type: http
scheme: basic
cookieAuth:
type: apiKey
in: cookie
name: sessionid
externalDocs:
description: CourtListener API Documentation
url: https://wiki.free.law/c/courtlistener/help/api/rest/v4/overview