Cleveland and Akron Ohio Court Scraping · AI Automation Agency Hub

Jun 17 (edited) • 🏆 Wins

Cleveland and Akron Ohio Court Scraping

Shipped two Ohio municipal court scrapers this week (Akron + Cleveland)

Been heads down on the Ohio pipeline and got Akron and Cleveland Municipal Court scrapers running end-to-end.

Both portals run on Tyler Tech — reCAPTCHA on every search, session cookies, multi-step redirects, and results buried in embedded JSON inside the HTML. Not the kind of site you can hit with a simple GET request.

What ended up working:

Browser impersonation
Handling reCAPTCHA v2 on each search
Proxy rotation

Each scraper ran ~1,900 company name searches from a shared term list. Both finished with 0 failed searches:

Cleveland → 304 case records
Akron → 592 case records

Roughly 20–25 minutes per court, fully automated. Output is structured CSV with case numbers, filing dates, defendants, case types, addresses, etc.

The nice part is these two share almost the same architecture — same portal vendor, same search flow, same parsing logic. Cleveland was first; Akron was mostly a portal URL swap and a few endpoint tweaks. That pattern is making the rest of the Ohio municipal courts go faster.

Curious what everyone else has been building lately — what data pipelines have you set up recently? Always interested in seeing how other people are approaching messy public data sources.

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Cleveland and Akron Ohio Court Scraping