# Scrape Judgments and Citations from Indian Kanoon
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Extract Indian case law, judgments, and citation graphs from Indian Kanoon at scale. Scrape.do clears Cloudflare and renders JS automatically.
**Scrape Judgments and Citations from Indian Kanoon**
Extract Indian case law, judgment text, and citation graphs from India's most popular free legal search engine. Indian Kanoon sits behind Cloudflare and requires JavaScript. Scrape.do handles both automatically.
## How to Scrape Indian Kanoon
### Judgment Page
Extract judgment text and citations from any Indian Kanoon document with a single API call.
**Example response**
```html
Surendra Singh And Others vs The State Of Uttar Pradesh - Indian Kanoon
[Cites 11, Cited by 130]
Supreme Court of India
Surendra Singh And Others vs The State Of Uttar Pradesh on 16 November, 1953
Equivalent citations: 1954 AIR 194, 1954 SCR 330
Author: Vivian Bose
Bench: Vivian Bose, B.K. Mukherjea, Natwarlal H. Bhagwati
PETITIONER: SURENDRA SINGH AND OTHERS ...
```
Scrape **Indian Kanoon** (https://www.indiankanoon.org) and receive the data as structured JSON.
**Example extracted fields**
| Field | Example |
| ----- | ------- |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Cites | 11 |
| Cited by | 130 |
| Year | 1953 |
### 4.9M Monthly Visits. Millions of Judgments. One API.
Indian Kanoon is the **#3 legal site in India** with **nearly 5 million monthly visits**, indexing millions of judgments and statutes from the Supreme Court, High Courts, tribunals, and Indian legislation. Every judgment carries citations, cross-references, and court metadata, making it a primary corpus for legal research, LLM training data, and citation-graph analysis.
With Scrape.do you can **build legal-document datasets** for RAG and model training, extract citation and cross-reference graphs between cases, **capture judgment text and court metadata** at scale, and power legal analytics and research tools. All through a single API call.
### Cloudflare. JS Rendering. Handled.
Indian Kanoon is fronted by **Cloudflare**, which serves a "verify you are human" challenge to any request that is not a real browser, including Python `requests`, cURL, and datacenter proxies. Judgment and search pages also require JavaScript to fully render, so a raw fetch returns an incomplete page even past the challenge.
Scrape.do rotates *high-quality residential IPs* with full browser fingerprints, clears the Cloudflare challenge, and renders the JavaScript so you receive complete judgment text, citations, and search results. You get clean legal-corpus data without maintaining proxy pools or CAPTCHA solvers, which matters when you're pulling thousands of documents for a dataset.
## FAQ
### Can Scrape.do bypass Indian Kanoon's Cloudflare protection?
Yes. indiankanoon.org is fronted by Cloudflare, which shows a "verify you are human" challenge to any request that is not a real browser, including Python `requests`, cURL, and datacenter proxies. Scrape.do rotates real residential IPs with full browser fingerprints, clears the Cloudflare challenge, and renders JavaScript to return complete judgment text, citations, and search results. Success rates exceed 95% on judgment and search pages.
### What data can I extract from Indian Kanoon?
You can extract full judgment text, case titles and dates, court and bench information, equivalent citations, "Cites" and "Cited by" citation graphs, statute and act text, and search-result listings, ideal for legal research, analytics, and building legal-document corpora for LLMs and RAG.
### Is Indian Kanoon useful for LLM training data?
Yes. Indian Kanoon is one of the largest freely searchable corpora of Indian case law, and its structured citations make it well suited for legal RAG pipelines and model training. Use Scrape.do with `render=true` to render judgment pages and pull clean text and citation metadata at scale without being blocked.