# 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. Juricio is not an official court website and is not affiliated with the U.S. Courts or PACER. This guide is general information, not legal advice: for a decision about a case, talk to a licensed attorney, and confirm each detail in the official sources cited below. [Esta guía en español](https://juricio.com/us/es/guias/feeds-rss-pacer) 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. **Federal district and bankruptcy courts by the RSS feed they publish** | Courts | Full feed | Partial feed | No feed | Total | |---|---|---|---|---| | District courts | 55 | 25 | 14 | 94 | | Bankruptcy courts | 61 | 29 | 4 | 94 | | Total | 116 | 54 | 18 | 188 | Checked by Juricio on October 15, 2026. The court-by-court list is on [the coverage page](https://juricio.com/us/coverage). 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](https://pacer.uscourts.gov/file-case/court-cmecf-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](https://juricio.com/us/coverage) 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. [Search federal cases](https://juricio.com/us/search) [Courts with RSS feeds](https://juricio.com/us/coverage) ## Questions ### Is a PACER RSS feed free? Yes. Reading a court's RSS feed is free. The documents and docket reports it links to are PACER pages, which cost $0.10 a page ($0.12 from January 1, 2027). ### How many federal courts publish a full RSS feed? 116 of the 188 federal district and bankruptcy courts, according to Juricio's check of October 15, 2026: 55 district courts and 61 bankruptcy courts. Another 54 publish a partial feed and 18 publish none. ### Do the federal courts of appeals publish RSS feeds? 7 of the 13 courts of appeals publish a partial feed and 6 publish none, according to Juricio's check of October 15, 2026. Juricio does not read them yet. ### Does an RSS feed show a case's whole docket? No. A feed lists the court's latest entries. For a case's full docket, run the docket report in PACER, which you can limit to a date range to see only what is new. ## Sources - [PACER: How can I receive case alerts using an RSS feed?](https://pacer.uscourts.gov/help/faqs/how-can-i-receive-case-alerts-using-rss-feed): what a court's feed includes, that it is free, how the linked documents open, and the Court CM/ECF Lookup (consulted October 22, 2026). - [PACER Pricing: How fees work](https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work): the fee per page and the docket report filters by date range (consulted October 22, 2026). - [United States Courts: Judiciary Approves Funding for Case Management and Public Access Modernization](https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judiciary-news/2026/06/26/judiciary-approves-funding-case-management-and-public-access-modernization): news release of June 26, 2026: the fee per page from January 1, 2027 (consulted October 22, 2026). ## More guides - [PACER alerts: how to get docket alerts](https://juricio.com/us/guides/pacer-alerts) - [How to track a federal court case](https://juricio.com/us/guides/track-a-federal-court-case) - [PACER fees in 2027: $0.12 per page](https://juricio.com/us/guides/pacer-fees-2027) - [How to search PACER by party name](https://juricio.com/us/guides/search-pacer-by-name) - [Get alerts when a company is sued](https://juricio.com/us/guides/lawsuit-alerts-for-a-company) - [PACER basics: how to find federal cases](https://juricio.com/us/guides/pacer-basics) - [How to find out if you are being sued](https://juricio.com/us/guides/am-i-being-sued) - [Guides to federal dockets and alerts](https://juricio.com/us/guides) ## More on Juricio - [Federal courts with RSS feeds](https://juricio.com/us/coverage) - [Docket monitoring](https://juricio.com/us/docket-monitoring) - [Alerts by party name](https://juricio.com/us/name-alerts) - [Federal district and bankruptcy courts](https://juricio.com/us/courts) - [Federal docket glossary](https://juricio.com/us/glossary) - [See plans](https://juricio.com/us/pricing)