CourtListener Scraper
Spider read courtlistener.com in 156 ms without a browser and returned 181 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "About Free Law Project", "Latest Opinions" and "Latest Oral Arguments".
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.The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on courtlistener.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=artificial+intelligence&type=o&order_by=score+desc");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=artificial+intelligence&type=o&order_by=score+desc");
await page.content();
const data = await page.extractFields({
title: ".result .result-title a",
court: ".result .court",
date: ".result .date-filed",
snippet: ".result .snippet",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What courtlistener.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000094 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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