GET pacer.uscourts.gov HTTP 200108 ms7.5 KB$0.000228 captured Aug 8, 2026
pacer.uscourts.gov, as data
One API turns any pacer.uscourts.gov 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.
- Render mode
- Headless browser required
- Response
- HTTP 200 in 108 ms
- Page size
- 7.5 KB of markdown, 130 lines
- Browser steps
- 3 observed on the live page
- Fields
- Case number, Case title, Court, Filed date and 4 more
- Captured
- Aug 8, 2026
Free balance on signup, no card. This pacer.uscourts.gov page cost $0.000228 to fetch.
How much does it cost to access documents using PACER?Access to case information costs $0.10 per page.Depending on format, billable pages are calculated in two different ways. For HTML-formatted information, a billable page is calculated using a formula based on the number of bytes extracted (4,320 bytes = 1 billable page). For PDFs, the actual number of pagesis counted (1 PDF page = 1 billable page).The cost to access a single document is capped at $3.00, the equivalent of 30 pagesfor documents and case-specific reports like docket report, creditor listing,andclaims register. Thecap does not apply to name searchresults, reports that are not case-specific, and transcripts of federal court proceedings.NOTE: If you accrue $30 or less of charges in a quarter, fees are waived for that period.75 percent of PACER users do not pay a fee in a given quarter.The $0.10 per-page charge is based on the number of pages that result from each search and accessing each requested report or document online. The charge is not based on printing that search or document. Read some examples of how charges are generated:* Enter party name "johnson, t" and receive two pages of matches. The charge is $0.20.* Enter case number 01-10054 and select Docket Report. The docket is 10 pages, so the charge is $1. You may enter a date range to limit the number of pages by displaying entries for the date range rather than all entries in the report.* Select a link within the docket report to view a document. ThePDFdocument is five pages, so the charge is $0.50.This charge applies to the number of pages that results from any search, including a search that yields no matches(a charge of $0.10, one page,for no matches).Read the fee schedule for electronic public access services. Find out when PACER is free, tips to limit fees, or options to access records if you cannot afford PACER fees.## Announcements### July 8, 2026 - Open pacer.uscourts.gov in a real browser
- Wait for the page to finish rendering
- Collect the repeated result blocks
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What Spider does on pacer.uscourts.gov
Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
108 ms · $0.000228Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Whole site
Follows pacer.uscourts.gov's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.
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.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://pacer.uscourts.gov/", "return_format": "markdown", "request": "chrome"}' from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown", "request": "chrome"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://pacer.uscourts.gov/", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"]) import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://pacer.uscourts.gov/", {
return_format: "markdown",
request: "chrome",
});
console.log(page.content); What pacer.uscourts.gov costs
Multiplied from the measured 7.5 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.
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 pacer.uscourts.gov.
The capture above took 108 ms and cost $0.000228. The same call takes any URL on pacer.uscourts.gov.