Law Docket Search
by 2s in Search & web
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).
https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search- Price
- $0.012
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 297 ms
- 530 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search
Each call costs $0.012 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search?court=nysd&q=United+States+v.+Bankman-FriedParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
court | string | No | CourtListener court id, e.g. "cand", "nysd", "ca9". |
docketNumber | string | No | Exact docket number, e.g. "1:22-cr-00673". |
filedAfter | string | No | |
filedBefore | string | No | |
page | integer | No | Default: 1. |
q | string | No | Case name / party full-text query. |
Example response
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Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.012.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search?court=nysd&q=United+States+v.+Bankman-Fried'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search?court=nysd&q=United+States+v.+Bankman-Fried' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.012 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.012" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.012 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2F2s.io%2Fapi%2Flaw%2Fdocket-search
const res = await pay("https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search?court=nysd&q=United+States+v.+Bankman-Fried");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.012 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.012"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://2s.io/api/law/docket-search?court=nysd&q=United+States+v.+Bankman-Fried")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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