Crawlora-org CourtListener research
Search CourtListener's public opinion index and browse its court and judicial person directories as normalized JSON.
When to use this skill
- Search public opinions by text.
- Discover courts and retrieve one court record.
- Browse or look up public judicial-person records.
- Build an initial legal-research shortlist before opening primary documents.
Setup
- Get a Crawlora API key at crawlora.net.
- Set
CRAWLORA_API_KEYin the environment before running the helper. - The helper reads
CRAWLORA_API_KEYfrom the environment and sends requests tohttps://api.crawlora.net/api/v1.
How it works
Use /courtlistener/search for opinion text search, /courtlistener/courts
for court discovery/detail, and /courtlistener/people for public judicial
person records. Treat results as research leads and verify legal conclusions
against the underlying opinion and applicable jurisdiction.
Full endpoint list: reference/endpoints.md.