UniCourt Enterprise API
A scalable API-first platform purpose-built for future growth.
A scalable API-first platform purpose-built for future growth.
Real-time access to the most comprehensive, frequently updated database of state and federal court records.
The Court Data API includes UniCourt's proprietary PACER API, the gold standard for accessing federal court records across the United States.
Generate actionable insights with instant access to legal analytics powered by normalized state and federal court data on attorneys, law firms, judges, and parties.
The Legal Analytics API enables seamless integration of internal knowledge with external legal data generating superior data analytics.
What are Legal Data APIs?
APIs, or application programming interfaces, are a form of technology that allows different software programs and applications to communicate. With UniCourt’s Legal Data APIs you can connect your applications to 140+ million federal (PACER) and state court records to help you automate and batch a variety of tasks.
What types of Legal Data APIs do you offer?
The UniCourt Enterprise API suite includes our Court Data API, Legal Analytics API, PACER API, and numerous other API endpoints.
What can I do with your Legal Data APIs?
With the UniCourt Enterprise API you can search cases, download court documents, track cases, automate court searches, update cases, and much more.
What courts can I access with your Legal Data APIs?
You can access court data and court documents for all of the federal (PACER) courts, including U.S. District Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Courts of Appeals, as well as all of the state courts available in our app. Learn more about our Court Coverage.
What are the main use cases for Legal Data APIs?
The most common use cases for UniCourt’s Legal Data APIs for law firms and insurance are business development, litigation strategy and analytics, docket management, background checks, investigations, and underwriting.
What types of applications and technologies can I integrate your Legal Data APIs with?
You can integrate our Legal Data APIs with your internal applications, such as your matter management systems, CRM, document management systems, and internal legal databases. You can also integrate our Legal Data APIs with your data lakes and other repositories you have developed for data collection and reporting.
Is it easy to integrate your APIs with my applications?
Yes, our APIs are easy to integrate with your applications. We provide you with sample code, a python library, proprietary tools, and detailed documentation for integrating our APIs within our API documentation as well as the hands-on engineering support you need.
Why should I use UniCourt’s APIs?
Unlike legacy API providers, UniCourt delivers an API-first platform that includes sample code, a Python library, and proprietary tools that enable data-dependent business initiatives to get up and running on day one.