@pipeworx/bankruptcy

Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bankruptcy/mcp · Install: one-click buttons

Tools: 2

Business bankruptcy filings from US federal bankruptcy courts: 1.55 million filings, searchable by company name, court and date. No API key.

Auth

None.

What this is, and what it is not

This is docket metadata: that a case exists, who filed, in which court, when it was filed, when it terminated, and which judge was assigned. It contains no filings — no petitions, schedules, motions or orders. Those live in RECAP, a separate corpus that is not keyless.

An agent that has this data knows a company filed. It does not know what the company said.

Consumer bankruptcy is deliberately excluded

Of CourtListener’s 71,677,647 dockets, 35,312,051 are individual bankruptcy filings — half the corpus. They carry no business signal and are PII-adjacent, so they are excluded.

The docket export has no chapter column, so business and consumer are separated by a legal-entity-suffix test on the debtor name (Inc, LLC, Corp, Holdings, Construction, and so on), applied only inside bankruptcy courts. Two consequences worth knowing before relying on a negative result:

• A sole proprietorship filing under a personal name will not appear here.
• “No filings found” means “no business filing matched”, never “this entity has never filed”.

Tools

Court ids follow CourtListener’s convention: nysb (S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy), deb (Delaware), txsb (S.D. Tex.), cacb (C.D. Cal.), ilnb (N.D. Ill.).

Caveats

• Quarterly snapshot. Every response carries snapshot_date. Anything filed after it is not here.
• date_terminated is 78.3% filled, so a missing termination date means not recorded, never still open. Responses say this on every row.
• nature_of_suit is sparse (14.8% corpus-wide) and cannot be relied on to filter by case type.
• Case names are as the court recorded them, including abbreviations and inconsistent entity suffixes. Search matches substrings for that reason.

Attribution

Data is CourtListener / Free Law Project, published under the Public Domain Mark. Free Law Project funds and maintains the corpus. If this pack is useful to you, https://free.law/donate/ is where that goes.

Tools

• bankruptcy_search — Find US BUSINESS BANKRUPTCY filings by company name. Searches 1.55 million business filings across federal bankruptcy courts — no API key. Returns the case name, docket number, court, filing date, ter
• bankruptcy_recent — List recent US business bankruptcy filings, newest first, optionally limited to one bankruptcy court. No API key, no rate limit. Use for “what companies filed for bankruptcy recently” or to watch one