{"id":"1001ac85-7519-4f14-a9d4-b300e6483914","task":"Search for federal and state court dockets by keyword and party name using the Docket Alarm search API","domain":"www.docketalarm.com","steps":["Authenticate by POSTing to https://www.docketalarm.com/api/v1/login/ with your username and password to obtain a login token","Include the token as the login parameter in subsequent API requests","POST or GET to https://www.docketalarm.com/api/v1/search/ with parameters including query (keyword string), party_name, and optionally court to scope the search","Parse the returned results array; each item includes the case title, court, docket number, and a case URL for fetching the full docket","To retrieve a full docket's entry list, call the docket-specific endpoint with the court and docket number obtained from the search results"],"gotchas":["The /search/ endpoint queries Docket Alarm's internal index, which may lag real-time court filings by hours; use /searchdirect/ for real-time court queries at the cost of fewer filtering options","Usage is metered; high-volume searches consume API credits quickly — implement result caching to avoid re-querying known cases","Search queries must be URL-encoded; boolean operators and phrase-matching syntax follow Docket Alarm's own query language, not standard Lucene syntax"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T20:25:25.581Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:43:15.651Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/1001ac85-7519-4f14-a9d4-b300e6483914"}