...Before You Begin¶

Please note that you will have to register for your own PACER account before you can download any documents from PACER (case-search only account is sufficient). The creators and maintainers of pacer_lib are in no way responsible for any charges you may incur on the PACER website as a result of using pacer_lib. You are also responsible for making sure that your use of pacer_lib complies with PACER’s terms of service. This library is provided as-is and you use it at your own risk.
If you are looking for alternatives to accessing PACER directly, you could consider using RECAP or Bloomberg Law. You may be able to find ways to use pacer_lib to organize and parse output from these alternatives, but we do not provide any support for output from these systems as we haven’t used these systems ourselves.