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RECAP by Free Law Project

Turning PACER Around since 2009 to make it better and cheaper.

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Our options and search panelsTo give you access to a docket, we put a link at the bottom of the docket query pageThis is how we put RECAP download links into your docketsWe also add links to attachment pages.Our extension adds a banner to let users know the document is available for free.
About this extension
Since 2009, RECAP has improved the experience of using PACER, the online public access system for the U.S. federal courts. If you use PACER, install RECAP.

Key points:

- If you use PACER, this free extension will save you money. Every document you purchase will be uploaded to the "RECAP Archive" where we make it searchable and accessible. Every document others have purchased since 2009 will be available to you for free right in PACER itself.

- This extension was created in 2009 at Princeton and is now run by Free Law Project, a non-profit that's working to improve PACER.

- This extension has already added millions of PACER documents to the Internet Archive and to the fully searchable RECAP Archive. In 2018 alone we added more than 20 million searchable pages to the archive!

- The more people using this extension, the more money we all save.

Created in 2009, RECAP is a free extension from Free Law Project and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton that improves the experience of using PACER, the online public access system for the U.S. federal courts.

RECAP has two main features. First, when you purchase an item on PACER, RECAP anonymously uploads that item to the RECAP Archive hosted at https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/ where it can be searched or downloaded for free by others.

Second, before you purchase an item that is in our collection, a link will be provided for you — right inside PACER — to get it for free. Any of the millions of items that have been uploaded so far are already available to you for free.

The benefit of this system is that the dockets and documents in the PACER system should only need to be purchased once. After that, you can get them for free by clicking a link that's right inside the PACER website. What's even better is that the more people using RECAP, the more items are free and the more money you'll save.

All of the items that you purchase are uploaded to the Internet Archive for historical preservation. We are not creating a walled garden.

RECAP is compatible with ECF logins and will not upload documents from sealed cases.

Learn more at https://free.law/recap/
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Required permissions:

  • Display notifications to you
  • Access browser tabs
  • Access your data for sites in the uscourts.gov domain
  • Access your data for ca1-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca2-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca3-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca4-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca5-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca6-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca7-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca8-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca9-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca10-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca11-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cafc-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cadc-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca1-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca2-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca3-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca4-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca5-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca6-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca7-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca8-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca9-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca10-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca11-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cafc-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cadc-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca1-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca2-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca3-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca4-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca5-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca6-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca7-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca8-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca9-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca10-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca11-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for cafc-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for cadc-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca1.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca2.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca3.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca4.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca5.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca6.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca7.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca8.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca9.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca10.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca11.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for cafc.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for cadc.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for www.courtlistener.com

Optional permissions:

  • Access your data for sites in the uscourts.gov domain
  • Access your data for ca1-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca2-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca3-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca4-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca5-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca6-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca7-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca8-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca9-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca10-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca11-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cafc-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cadc-showdoc.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca1-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca2-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca3-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca4-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca5-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca6-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca7-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca8-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca9-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca10-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca11-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cafc-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for cadc-showdocservices.azurewebsites.us
  • Access your data for ca1-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca2-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca3-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca4-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca5-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca6-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca7-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca8-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca9-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca10-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca11-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for cafc-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for cadc-portal.powerappsportals.us
  • Access your data for ca1.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca2.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca3.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca4.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca5.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca6.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca7.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca8.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca9.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca10.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for ca11.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for cafc.fedcourts.us
  • Access your data for cadc.fedcourts.us
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2.8.5
Size
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Last updated
2 months ago (Jun 16, 2025)
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