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GET courtlistener.com HTTP 200156 ms4.8 KB$0.000094 captured Aug 8, 2026

courtlistener.com, as data

One API turns any courtlistener.com page into markdown, structured JSON, its link graph or a screenshot, and crawls the whole site the same way. The panel shows the real response we captured.

target profile from the capture
Render mode
Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response
HTTP 200 in 156 ms
Page size
4.8 KB of markdown, 181 lines
Fields
Case name, Court, Date filed, Docket number and 4 more
Captured
Aug 8, 2026

Free balance on signup, no card. This courtlistener.com page cost $0.000094 to fetch.

response 200 · 156 ms · 4.8 KB
Search millions of legal decisions by case name, topic,orcitation.472 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit FreeLawProject.### About CourtListenerCourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal andstate courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research animportant case, stay up to date with case law as it develops, or do deep analysis using our### About Free Law ProjectFree Law Project seeks to provide free access to primarylegal materials, develop legal researchtools, and support academic research on legal corpora. We work diligently with volunteers to expandour efforts at building an open source, open access, legal research ecosystem. Currently Free LawProject sponsors the development of CourtListener,### Latest Opinions**We download case law from many jurisdictions on an ongoing basis. Here are the most recent ones.United States v. Miguel A. Morales-Garcia (7thCir.2026)Verisk Analytics, Inc. and Lenny Merger Sub, Inc. v. ExactLogix, Inc. d/b/a AccuLynx.com, and Richard Spanton, Jr. (Del.Ch.2026)United States v. Cristian Ponce (11thCir.2026)SARAH RACHEL MALLETTE and v. GARFIELD TAU ADAMS And (Alaska2026)### Latest Oral Arguments**We download oral arguments from many jurisdictions on anongoing basis. Here are the most recent ones.Safarov v. Blanche (9thCir.2026)Sherrod Brown v. FCC (4thCir.2026)J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Robert B. King, James Andrew WynnUnited States v. Walji (9thCir.2026)McGuffin v. Karcher (9thCir.2026)### The Numbers**Number of precedential opinions in CourtListener.Case law added in last ten days.Duration of all oral arguments in CourtListener, in days.Oral arguments added in last ten days.
POST /scrape · courtlistener.com/index.md · markdown · Showing 31 of 181 lines · captured Aug 8, 2026

What Spider does on courtlistener.com

Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.

/scrape

Page to markdown

Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.

156 ms · $0.000094
/fetch

Page to JSON

Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.

/crawl

Whole site

Follows courtlistener.com's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.

/links

Link graph

Every internal and external URL on a page, before you decide what to fetch.

/screenshot

Rendered capture

Real Chromium, full-page PNG. The same call also returns the rendered HTML.

The call behind the panel

This request produced the response above. Paste it with your key and you get the same bytes.

request scrape.sh
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://courtlistener.com/", "return_format": "markdown"}'
plain request · no browser, no selectors

What courtlistener.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 4.8 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured
This page, once 4.8 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000094
This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.002828
1,000 pages this size 4.7 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.09
10,000 pages this size 46.9 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.94

1 GB of transfer costs $1, plus $0.001 per CPU minute, and failed requests cost $0. Crawling daily? The Unlimited plan is a flat monthly rate.

Point this at the rest of courtlistener.com.

The capture above took 156 ms and cost $0.000094. The same call takes any URL on courtlistener.com.

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