Court Docket Live Watcher

Monitors PACER and state court e-filing portals for docket updates and sends instant desktop notifications.

⚖️ NEVER MISS A COURT FILING AGAIN Court Docket Live Watcher is the only browser extension built specifically for legal professionals who rely on PACER and state court e-filing portals. Instead of manually refreshing docket pages throughout the day, the extension monitors your watched cases in the background and fires an instant Chrome desktop notification the moment a new entry appears. ── WHAT IT DOES ── • Watches any case on PACER (pacer.gov), CourtListener (courtlistener.com), and major state court e-filing portals • Detects new docket entries automatically — no manual page refreshing required • Sends a rich desktop notification showing the case name, court, new entry title, and entry date • Displays a clean popup dashboard listing all your watched cases with live status badges, last-checked timestamps, and new entry counts • Lets you set your preferred polling interval — every 5, 15, or 30 minutes • Adds a one-click "Watch this case" button directly on every docket page you visit ── WHO IT IS FOR ── • Attorneys and paralegals tracking active federal and state litigation • Legal operations teams monitoring multi-case dockets across jurisdictions • Law students and researchers following high-profile federal cases • Court reporters and journalists covering ongoing litigation • Compliance officers monitoring regulatory enforcement dockets ── HOW IT WORKS ── 1. Visit any supported court portal docket page 2. Click the "Watch this case" button injected by the extension 3. The extension silently snapshots the docket entry list 4. Every polling cycle, it compares the live docket to the stored snapshot 5. If new entries are found, a Chrome desktop notification fires instantly with the case details 6. Open the popup to see all watched cases at a glance ── PRIVACY & DATA SECURITY ── All data — case numbers, docket snapshots, and alert history — is stored exclusively in your local browser using chrome.storage.local. No data is ever sent to any server. No account required. No cloud sync. This extension makes zero external API calls. ── SUPPORTED PORTALS ── ✓ PACER (pacer.gov) — all federal district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts ✓ CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — RECAP Archive free federal dockets ✓ State court portals on *.courts.gov domains ── PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ── Storage — to save your watched cases and docket snapshots locally Alarms — to schedule background polling without keeping a tab open Notifications — to send you instant desktop alerts when a case updates Scripting — to inject the "Watch this case" button on docket pages Host permissions (pacer.gov, courts.gov, courtlistener.com) — to read docket page content only on these specific legal portals No browsing history. No personal data. No tracking of any kind. Built for the legal profession. Trusted by paralegals, associates, and court reporters who cannot afford to miss a filing.