/bengo4/lawyers/search

POST /api/bengo4/lawyers/search

Price: 20 credits

Search lawyers on Bengo4 (弁護士ドットコム) by prefecture, city, practice area, services, gender, keyword, fee table, case studies and enquiry hours: name, office, contacts, stations, hours, focus areas with features and resolved case counts, and fee summary

How to use it

City codes are 5-digit JIS codes inside the prefecture. Pass a returned id to bengo4/lawyers for the full profile, bengo4/lawyers/cases for case studies and bengo4/lawyers/questions for answered questions.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• prefecture string required — Prefecture slug (examples: "tokyo", "osaka", "kyoto")
• cities array nullable — City or ward codes; any may match (examples: ["13101","13103"])
• practice_areas array nullable — Practice areas; any may match. Rows of the first area come first, then the new rows of each next area (one of: "debt", "traffic_accident", "divorce", "inheritance", "labor", "debt_collection", "medical", "fraud_consumer", "international", "internet", "criminal", "real_estate", "corporate", "tax_administrative"; examples: ["divorce"])
• services array nullable — Services offered; all must match (one of: "legal_aid", "free_first_consultation", "nationwide_visits", "booking_24h", "female_staff", "same_day_consultation", "holiday_consultation", "night_consultation", "phone_consultation", "installments", "deferred_payment", "no_retainer_fee", "contingency_fee_only", "card_payment"; examples: ["free_first_consultation"])
• gender string nullable — Lawyer gender (one of: "male", "female")
• keyword string nullable — Free-text keyword (examples: "離婚"; minLength: 1)
• has_price_table boolean — Only lawyers publishing a fee table (default: false)
• has_cases boolean — Only lawyers publishing case studies (default: false)
• open_after_18 boolean — Only lawyers taking enquiries after 18:00 (default: false)
• open_after_22 boolean — Only lawyers taking enquiries after 22:00 (default: false)
• open_saturday boolean — Only lawyers taking enquiries on Saturday (default: false)
• open_sunday boolean — Only lawyers taking enquiries on Sunday (default: false)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1; max: 2000)

Response

• @type string (default: "Bengo4LawyerCard")
• id string required
• url string required
• name string nullable
• last_name string nullable
• first_name string nullable
• description string nullable
• image string nullable
• resolved_case_count integer nullable
• is_paid_listing boolean nullable
• phone string nullable
• accepts_phone boolean nullable
• email string nullable
• accepts_web_contact boolean nullable
• line_url string nullable
• office_name string nullable
• prefecture string nullable
• city object nullable
  • @type string (default: "Bengo4City")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
• nearest_station object nullable
  • @type string (default: "Bengo4Station")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • walk_minutes integer nullable
• stations array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "Bengo4Station")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • walk_minutes integer nullable
• hours_open string nullable
• hours_close string nullable
• focus_fields array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "Bengo4FocusField")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • resolved_case_count integer nullable
  • features array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "Bengo4Feature")
    • group string nullable
    • name string required
    • note string nullable
• price_title string nullable
• price_text string nullable
• price_features array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "Bengo4Feature")
  • group string nullable
  • name string required
  • note string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Bengo4 serves no result list for this combination of filters; prefecture niigata needs cities (without a city Bengo4 answers with a nationwide list) Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.