If you haven't already, see https://www.recapthelaw.org/. I think the records captured via that plugin are hosted on the Internet Archive.
t On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]>wrote: > I have been pondering scraping PACER and hosting it for free. > http://www.pacer.gov > > Given PACER's stupid payment model, I've actually come up with some > rather bizarre approaches to scraping that don't seem to violate the > terms of service. > > Anyway, I still don't really know whether it's worthwhile; I rarely > look up court records, but maybe I would if they were available > through non-proprietary and inexpensive means. > > Those of you who regularly use court records can help me by answering > the following questions. You can reply to me personally in case > replying to the whole list seems too spammy, but I'd love for this to > turn into a more open-ended discussion too. > > 1 Would a free-of-charge PACER clone be at all useful to you? > * To measure its utility: If it had a yearly fundraising campaign, how > much do you think you would you donate to it for one year? > > 2 What other sorts of people would use it? > > 3 Is there a particular set of case records that might be particularly > useful? > > 4 Is there a different web database that you would particularly like > to be liberated? > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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