Timeliness of RECAP updates

[healthbjk]

I am subscribed to updates for various cases via email. I'm noticing that dockets often don't sync, though, so I've been using the RECAP API to refresh dockets I care about from PACER.

For example, a case before I run my script:

That case after I run my script (which invokes the RECAP APIs to refresh PACER):

156 and 157 were missing from the first. Hence why refreshing is valuable to me - across the twelve or so cases I follow, I like real-time information. This is expensive across all the cases I monitor.

Do we know why there is sometimes hours, days, or longer of latency for the "stub" entries from PACER to sync to RECAP?

[mlissner]

Hi, I think this answer should help! https://wiki.free.law/c/courtlistener/help/alerts/why-arent-i-getting-alerts-for-a-case