Did you miss this? Important announcement!

This update includes a badge and banner in the extension popup. If you click the button in the banner, it will take you to a donation page where you can find more information about the Pacer class action lawsuit and how you can contribute.

Level Up Your Privacy: Printing Enhancements and Improved Receipt pages

Features:

• For ECF users, we added a second button to PACER receipt pages. Now when you are buying a document, you have a choice of the untouched, normal "View Document" button, or a second one that will "RECAP" the document when you buy it. It's great! (#357, #357).

  

• UI elements added by the extension will not be visible when you print PACER webpages. (#360, #355).

Changes:

• The RECAP Privacy Policy is updated, simplified, and clarified. The RECAP homepage, FAQs, and screenshots are updated.
• Shift focus to support: Rename 'Help' tab to 'Donate' and enhance content.(#359, #356).

Fundraising and a fix

Just a small one today to make appellate attachment pages more reliable and to pop up a "Please donate" tab in all our user's browsers. The latter is something we don't enjoy doing, but we know that it's effective. We hope that the minor annoyance once per year is an OK tradeoff for the usefulness and importance of RECAP itself.

So, with our apologies, here's 2.4.2. It's not our favorite release, but if it's effective and we need your support. The more we get now, the more we can do next year. We hope you'll please support us by sending a donation or sponsoring us on GitHub.

Upload More Zip Files Than Ever Before!

Fixes:

• Refines the logic for retrieving Zip URLs from district court websites and resolves the issue encountered by macOS users(#352).

First step to add support for ACMS pages

Heads up!

This version requires that you accept new permissions. On Firefox that means that you will see a tiny little yellow triangle on the menu button. When you click it, it will say that you need to allow access to about 50 domains. These are the PACER and ACMS domains. Please allow them to have access or else you will not get the most recent version of RECAP.

Features:

• Adds a warning sign to the toolbar icon when users are on a ACMS website(#346)

Changes:

• Adds permissions to access ACMS URLs. ACMS is the new CM/ECF replacement for the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, which goes live for all new cases on Oct. 1, 2023. We do not currently support ACMS, but because users have to acknowledge permissions changes, it's important to get that manual step out of the way as soon as possible as we work on the code.

Watch out for combined PDFs

Features:

• Adds a warning to let users know that combined PDFs won't be uploaded to the RECAP Archive(#337, #341)

Fixes:

• More robust logic to inject content scripts(#346)

More banners for appellate courts!

Features:

• Adds RECAP banners to the docket query pages on appellate courts(#335, #333)

Changes:

• Improve logic to identify attachment pages in district courts(#335)

Fixes:

• More robust logic to get the document_id from appellate courts after logging in to purchase a document(#340)
• Normalize document numbers from appellate courts that uses the pacer_doc_id instead of the regular docket entry numbering(#2877).

Get your headphones!

Features:

• PDFs containing audio recordings will now be uploaded to the RECAP Archive (#244, #326)

Fixes:

• The autofill button was filling the date inputs with undefined in the docket query form but now it's working again(#344).

Woah there, let's not DDOS CourtListener

This is a small bug fix release that fixes a nasty query that hammered the CourtListener API. It's a relief to have it fixed!

We also fix a couple other things:

• Better document link filtering on district and appellate court reports(#341).
• Better case ID capturing on district court docket reports.
• Change the naming style of the data attributes the extension attaches to documents links.

But ultimately, this was about making RECAP not take down CourtListener....

Fixes to the Mad Capper

Not much in this one, but we're pushing it anyway because it fixes a nasty bug.

Changes:

• Uncheck terminates parties field of docket query form in district courts(#329, #313)

Fixes:

• More robust uploading of case summary pages from appellate (#330)