/courtlistener/oral-arguments

POST /api/courtlistener/oral-arguments

Price: 10 credits

Get an oral argument audio recording with its speech-to-text transcript by its identifier

How to use it

Get a single oral argument audio recording by its CourtListener id. Returns the case name, docket, panel judges, source, audio download url and duration, and the full speech-to-text transcript when available.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• oral_argument integer required — Oral argument (audio) identifier (examples: 105630, 1000)

Response

• @type string (default: "CourtlistenerOralArgument")
• id integer required
• case_name string nullable
• case_name_short string nullable
• case_name_full string nullable
• docket_id integer nullable
• panel_ids array (default: [])
• judges string nullable
• source string nullable
• sha1 string nullable
• download_url string nullable
• local_path_mp3 string nullable
• local_path_original_file string nullable
• filepath_ia string nullable
• duration integer nullable
• processing_complete boolean (default: false)
• blocked boolean (default: false)
• stt_status integer nullable
• stt_source integer nullable
• stt_transcript string nullable
• web_url string nullable
• blocked_at integer nullable
• created_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer 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 — Oral argument not found 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.