# vaaya.ai CourtListener Federal Docket Search

> vaaya.ai CourtListener Federal Docket Search is a paid API for AI agents from vaaya.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Searches federal court dockets via the RECAP/CourtListener archive to return the full litigation profile of any company or party, including case names, parties, attorneys, filing dates, and live docket links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/courtlistener/dockets?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vaaya-ai-courtlistener-federal-docket-search-748c4f70
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4X72bsfNjjz97rQffAZK4

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 vaaya-ai-courtlistener-federal-docket-search-748c4f70 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the full federal litigation profile for Uber Technologies from the RECAP archive — I want every federal case naming them, including parties, attorneys, filing dates, and links to the dockets.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to research the federal litigation history of a company or individual, especially for due diligence, competitive intelligence, or legal risk assessment. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured docket-level data including parties, attorneys, filing dates, and direct CourtListener links. Note it covers federal courts via RECAP; for state court research, supplement with other sources.

## Known failure modes

- Company name matches no federal dockets — returns empty result set
- Ambiguous company name returns unrelated cases for similarly named entities
- State court cases are not covered or have incomplete coverage
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns error
- Malformed query parameters cause 4xx error
- Very recent filings may not yet be indexed in the RECAP archive

## How this service works

Search federal court dockets via RECAP (CourtListener v4) — the litigation profile of any company: every case naming it, parties, attorneys, filing dates, live docket links. Same params as courtlistener/cases. Coverage is federal courts via the RECAP archive; state-court coverage varies — say so in outputs.

## Output

Returns a list of federal court docket records matching the query, each including case name, docket number, court, party names, attorney names, filing dates, and a live link to the docket on CourtListener. Coverage is federal courts via the RECAP archive; state-court coverage varies.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
      },
      "court": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "judge": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "cursor": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "order_by": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "case_name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "party_name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "filed_after": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$"
      },
      "filed_before": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$"
      },
      "docket_number": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vaaya-ai-courtlistener-federal-docket-search-748c4f70/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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