OpenCaseLaw research CLI

Dependency-free Python 3.10+ client for the public, read-only research API. Install with pipx install opencaselaw-cli (or uv tool install opencaselaw-cli); both create the isolated environment that current Python installations require. Without them, use a virtual environment: python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install opencaselaw-cli. This package does not install scraper/server dependencies or a local corpus.

ocl --help
ocl citations resolve 'BGE 136 III 513' '4A_747/2012'          # do these exist, and which decisions are they?
ocl bundle create 'Rachekündigung Art. 336 OR' --max-results 10 --passage 2 --law OR:336 --out evidence
ocl decisions search 'Rachekündigung' --max-results 5 --format jsonl | ocl decisions get --stdin --format jsonl > decisions.jsonl
ocl decisions passage bge_BGE_136_III_513 2.3

A bundle folder holds the selected decisions (JSON and plain text), the named Erwägungen and statute articles, a plain-language INDEX.md, and a manifest.json with every request, timestamp, source link and file hash.

See the repository's research CLI guide for provenance, batch inputs, pagination, partial failures and repeatable workflows. Commands contact https://mcp.opencaselaw.ch by default; --base-url accepts an alternative HTTP(S) origin. Results come from a changing hosted corpus, not an offline snapshot. Preserve returned source evidence and pagination metadata.

Exit codes: 0 success (including a bounded selection); 2 invalid input; 3 API or transport failure; 4 partial or unresolved result; 130 interruption. At a terminal the output is readable text (--color never or NO_COLOR for plain text); piped, or with --format json|jsonl, it is JSON on stdout; table, csv and md are for documents. Defaults can live in ~/.config/ocl/config or OCL_* variables; ocl completion zsh|bash|fish prints a completion script. Diagnostics go to stderr. The client retries at most twice by default, spaces requests by at least 200 ms, and respects Retry-After up to 30 seconds; longer server delays fail without an early retry.

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