Austlii: Get Case Full Text
Austlii via Parse · government_public
Extracts the complete full text and metadata of an AustLII case judgment from its document URL. Returns structured metadata (case title, medium neutral citation, parallel citations, court name, judgment date, judges/coram, catchwords) plus the entire body of the judgment as plain text including headnote, orders, and every numbered paragraph in order. Makes a single HTTP request to the case document page. APIs to discover databases, browse cases by year, and extract prioritized download links (RTF, Eco-friendly print, PDF) from AustLII. Fulfilled by Parse from austlii.edu.au.
- austlii
- austlii-edu-au
- education
- government-public
- other
- parse
- platform-key
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- government_public
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/6c24f681-35dd-4b59-b1c9-216b3fc16289/get_case_full_text
- Interface artifact
- sha256:d9ed0b1bac2afd44587a2da3159375b6a6c9475c93bbbbf96af910e8036658b4
- Manifest digest
- sha256:dea307c01b5a9b8e14cf21d952aeccbacf874f77fc2de7abdc10284aaa762fc3
Request fields
- url (string, required): The full URL of the case document page (e.g. 'https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2004/52.html'). Obtainable from list_cases results.
Example queries
- {"url":"https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/2026/1.html"}