http-202

problem

python courtlistener web-scraping http-202 rate-limit legal-research

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CourtListener opinion pages return HTTP 202 with an empty body to scripted fetches; use the REST API or a reader fetch

Fetching a CourtListener opinion HTML page (e.g. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1282592/wallihan-v-hughes/) from Python 3 urllib.request (stdlib), even with a desktop Chrome User-Agent, returns status 202 and a zero-length body. No error is raised, so code that only checks for 2xx and parses…

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