Search US federal court dockets — civil and criminal — from the RECAP/PACER arch

Search US federal court dockets — civil and criminal — from the RECAP/PACER archive. Full-text q (case name, party, e.g. "United States v. Bankman-Fried"), optional court (CourtListener court id like "cand", "nysd", "ca9"), filedAfter/filedBefore (YYYY-MM-DD), page. Or pass docketNumber (+ court) for exact lookup. Each docket: id, case name, court, docket number, date filed/terminated, nature of suit, assigned judge, public docket URL. Criminal-case research, litigation monitoring, KYC/due-diligence. Sibling endpoints: /api/law/case-search (opinions full-text), /api/law/opinion (full opinion text).

Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24

1 of 1checks answered this week

249 msmedian answer time

$0.012listed price per call

$0.012price it asked us

Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.

Endpoint

GET https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search

Category	Company and compliance
Provider host	2s.io
Networks	eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp
Payment schemes	exact
Self-reported calls, 30 days	2 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours)

Our checks, last 30 days

Day	Result	HTTP	Asked	Time
2026-09-24	valid payment request	402	$0.012	249 ms

Example input (from the provider)

{
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
    "court": "nysd",
    "q": "United States v. Bankman-Fried"
  },
  "type": "http"
}

Promised output schema (from the provider)

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "properties": {
        "method": {
          "const": "GET"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "properties": {
            "court": {
              "description": "CourtListener court id, e.g. \"cand\", \"nysd\", \"ca9\".",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "docketNumber": {
              "description": "Exact docket number, e.g. \"1:22-cr-00673\".",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "filedAfter": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "filedBefore": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "page": {
              "default": 1,
              "minimum": 1,
              "type": "integer"
            },
            "q": {
              "description": "Case name / party full-text query.",
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "type": {
          "const": "http"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method",
        "queryParams"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

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