Legal Research API
Collect court opinions, regulatory filings, statutes, and legal citation networks from public legal databases to build legal intelligence tools, compliance monitors, and research datasets.
How It Works
Target legal databases
Access public court opinions, regulatory filings, and legal statutes from government and public legal portals.
Extract case metadata
Pull case names, docket numbers, court, filing date, judges, parties, holding, and citation references.
Build legal intelligence
Aggregate precedent networks, regulatory trend analysis, and compliance risk signals from extracted data.
Quick Start
curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1234567/smith-v-jones/",
"extract": {
"case_name": "string",
"court": "string",
"date_filed": "string",
"holding": "string",
"citations": "string[]"
}
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AlterLab is designed for extracting publicly available data. Always review the terms of service for any website you access, respect robots.txt directives, and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.
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