PacerMonitor Federal Court Data API
Commercial REST API and bulk-search channel for federal district and bankruptcy court data, with machine-readable JSON and CSV/XLS access and arbitrary case or party searching.
Questions this answers
7 · best fit firstA public selected civil case records named attorneys and law firms under Represented By for the plaintiff and identifies that party's Plaintiff role; its docket also records counsel notices of appearance. The commercial API brochure separately documents party information and federal docket access.
PacerMonitor documents API access to millions of federal court dockets and programmable updates. Public selected-case pages show docket last-updated time and dated, typed entries; the cited civil case also records a service-due deadline, supplying the next externally recorded milestone where one is present.
PacerMonitor documents programmable document downloads and OCR federal court PDFs. Its public selected-case dockets identify pleadings and rulings by type and date, including a complaint, notices of appearance, status report, corporate disclosure, voluntary dismissal, and an order transferring jurisdiction in the cited samples.
For a buyer-selected federal proceeding, PacerMonitor exposes the court, docket number, matter type or nature of suit, filing date, termination status and date, last-check or docket-refresh time, parties, and machine-readable API access. The cited civil sample displays each required identity and status element with a retrieval-currentness signal.
A public buyer-selected civil proceeding explicitly displays Judge Richard M Gergel with the court and docket number. Another selected criminal docket records a notice of allocation and assignment naming Judge Renee Marie Bumb, establishing the proceeding-to-judge association and assignment context.
PacerMonitor permits arbitrary party-name searching of federal civil cases. A public civil result identifies the selected person as Plaintiff, gives the federal court and docket number, and lists the other parties by recorded role; the commercial, non-contributory API supplies normalized federal-court data in JSON or CSV/XLS.
PacerMonitor's API brochure explicitly includes federal criminal cases, and its live criminal party search returns buyer-named people with case captions, docket numbers, and filing dates. A public selected result records JOHN SMITH as Defendant in a federal criminal case through the commercial, non-contributory channel.
Fields it delivers
3 fieldsPacerMonitor identifies the product as federal district and bankruptcy court coverage across the United States.
PacerMonitor lists the API as a bulk search and data-retrieval product with pricing available by contact, alongside paid monthly web plans. A trial and free basic web searching are alternatives, not a no-cost production API route.
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