PACER RSS feeds: what federal court feeds include and which courts publish one

Editorial review: October 22, 2026. Official sources cited. Text updated: October 22, 2026.

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A PACER RSS feed is the free list of new docket entries that a federal court's CM/ECF system publishes. Each item names the case and the new entry, with a short summary and links to the document and the docket report, which open in PACER. Some courts publish every entry, some only certain types, and some publish no feed at all.

What does an RSS item include?

According to PACER, a court's feed gives automatic notice of case activity, with a summary of each entry and links to the document and the docket report. The feed is free; the linked document and docket report are PACER pages, which you see by logging in to PACER and which cost its fee per page.

A feed shows the court's latest entries, not the whole history of a case: for the full docket you run the docket report in PACER.

What is the difference between a full and a partial feed?

A full feed lists every new docket entry of the court. A partial feed lists only the types of entries the court chose (for example, orders and motions), so an entry of another type never appears in it.

Which federal courts publish a feed?

Of the 188 federal district and bankruptcy courts, 116 publish a full feed, 54 a partial one and 18 none.

Checked by Juricio on October 15, 2026. The court-by-court list is on the coverage page.

Of the 13 federal courts of appeals, 7 publish a partial feed and 6 publish none. Juricio does not read the courts of appeals yet.

How do you find a court's feed?

PACER suggests looking the court up in its Court CM/ECF Lookup, which tells whether the court has an RSS feed. The address usually ends in rss_outside.pl on the court's CM/ECF site; for example:

S.D. Texas: https://ecf.txsd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rss_outside.pl

Juricio's coverage page lists every district and bankruptcy court with the kind of feed it publishes.

How do you read a feed?

Paste the feed's address into any feed reader. The reader checks it for you and shows the new entries; to follow one case, look for its case number or its parties' names among them. Opening an entry's document takes you to the PACER login.

How often does Juricio read the feeds?

Priority courts every hour and the others about every 3 hours; a feed that keeps answering with nothing new is read less often, at most 6 hours apart. Juricio reads only the free feeds, never opens paid PACER pages, and leaves alone a feed whose court's robots.txt does not allow automated reading.

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