Court dockets: retrieving filings from Lex Machina, Docket Alarm and Bloomberg Law

Three commercial platforms, one job: turn a list of cases into a directory of PDFs plus a manifest you can defend. Verified end to end on 1,597 Delaware Chancery cases, 2026-08-30/31 — ~4,000 documents retrieved across all three.

Auth is the user's live browser session on CDP 9222. None of these needs a password. Read the cookie with scripts/lm_cookie.py; never log in, and never touch stored credentials unless the user explicitly says to.

Full endpoint chains, request/response shapes and per-vendor quirks: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/endpoints.md — read it before writing any fetch code.

The scripts are the interface

Do not hand-roll a harvester. These are working, resumable and manifest-writing: