docket-entries API endpoint vs docket_absolute_url from archive search #2845
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I understand using the docket-entries endpoint requires special permission. My use case is I'm doing a RECAP archive search with specific criteria, then I'm looking up the resulting docket numbers to check the filings. I noticed I can just use the docket_absolute_url from the response of the archive search to do that. Would there be an advantage to instead requesting permission for the docket-entries API? |
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I think it depends on if you want data or HTML. If you use the absolute_url field, you'll get our rendering of the data. If you want data, you'll want to get it as JSON and use that. Maybe I'm still not understanding correctly? |
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Makes sense. To email for permission, do I use the contact at the bottom of the readme, or is there a different contact specific to CourtListener? |
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I'll get back to you in a few. :) Thanks for moving this over here even though I see it's a bit circuitous now... |
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I think it depends on if you want data or HTML. If you use the absolute_url field, you'll get our rendering of the data. If you want data, you'll want to get it as JSON and use that.
Maybe I'm still not understanding correctly?