# Harris County District Court Filings (Civil & Criminal)

> Harris County District Court Filings (Civil & Criminal) is a paid API for AI agents from api.companyrecords-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Returns Harris County (Houston, TX) district court new filings from the District Clerk's daily datasets, covering both civil and criminal cases with party/defendant details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.companyrecords-api.workers.dev/api/gov/harris-county-court-records?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/harris-county-district-court-filings-civil-criminal-10b75bfd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9sQryWwVV74X39R-jJpDg

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability harris-county-district-court-filings-civil-criminal-10b75bfd
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest civil court filings from Harris County district court for today, filter by party name WELLS FARGO, and show me up to 100 cases with case number, court, case type, and party details.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official Harris County (Houston, TX) district court new filing data sourced directly from the District Clerk's daily datasets. It is the right choice for monitoring recent civil litigation (including foreclosures, divorces, debt cases) or new criminal charges in Harris County, especially when filtering by party name, defendant name, or case/offense type. Prefer this over generic legal databases when you need structured, machine-readable data from an authoritative government source at low cost.

## Known failure modes

- Date not available — civil filings only go back 7 days; criminal only the latest day; out-of-range dates return empty or error
- Invalid 'kind' value returns a validation error
- No matching cases for the given party or caseType filter returns an empty list
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns a 402 or 429 error
- Upstream District Clerk dataset not yet published for the requested date may return empty results

## How this service works

Pay-per-call company registry, government, legal and B2B data tools for AI agents, from official registers and public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.

## Output

A list of court case records (up to 200) for the requested date and kind. Civil records include case number, court, case type, filing status, and parties (role, name, address). Criminal records include case number, court, offense, bail amount, next setting date, defendant name, SPN, sex, race, city, and ZIP code, plus attorney name.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Filing day YYYY-MM-DD among the published files (civil: last 7 days; criminal: latest day only). Default: the latest file"
      },
      "kind": {
       "enum": [
        "civil",
        "criminal"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "civil (default) or criminal"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Max cases 1-200 (default 50)"
      },
      "party": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional text filter on a party / defendant name, e.g. WELLS FARGO"
      },
      "caseType": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional text filter on case type (civil) or offense (criminal), e.g. foreclosure, divorce, assault"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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