Building a Court Data API for India's Legal Tech Ecosystem

India generates an enormous volume of legal data every day - millions of court cases, judgments, orders, and cause lists across 600+ district courts, 25 High Courts, and the Supreme Court. Until recently, accessing this data programmatically was nearly impossible for developers.

The Challenge

Most Indian court data sits in the eCourts system (the government's digital infrastructure), but there was no easy way for developers, researchers, or legal tech startups to access it at scale. Manual searches are slow, and individual court portals don't expose structured data.

Introducing the eCourtsIndia API

This is where the eCourtsIndia API comes in.…