Free Law Project Search API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Free Law Project / CourtListener REST Alerts Search API
  description: The CourtListener REST API (operated by Free Law Project) provides programmatic access to case law, PACER data, the RECAP archive, oral arguments, judges, financial disclosures, citations, citation networks, alerts, tags, and visualizations.
  version: '4.3'
  contact:
    name: Free Law Project
    url: https://free.law/
servers:
- url: https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4
  description: CourtListener REST API v4
security:
- TokenAuth: []
tags:
- name: Search
  description: Full-text and faceted search across CourtListener data.
paths:
  /search/:
    get:
      summary: Search across CourtListener
      description: Full-text and faceted search across opinions, dockets, oral arguments, judges, and more.
      operationId: search
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        description: Search query string.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: type
        in: query
        description: Result type (e.g., o for opinions, r for RECAP, oa for oral arguments, p for people).
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: order_by
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginatedResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    PaginatedResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
        next:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        previous:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
  securitySchemes:
    TokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'HTTP token authentication. Format: `Token <your-token>`.'