🇨🇴Court Case Records Lookup

Service to check if a citizen has judicial files in various cities in Colombia.

Endpoint

https://api.verifik.co/v2/co/rama/juzgado/expedientes

The Court Case Records Lookup service allows users to access information about legal proceedings in Colombia. By providing the individual's document type and number (e.g., CC for Citizenship Card) and the city where the proceedings occurred, users can retrieve detailed case information. The response includes data such as the court (EPMS - Sistema de Gestión de Despachos Judiciales), city, receipt date, municipality, corporation, courtroom code, consulting office, year, filing number, appeal status, identification details, the name of the involved party, and the representative.

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <token>

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Required?	Description	Example
documentType	String	True	Document type. Valid parameters: CC, NIT, CE.	CC
documentNumber	String	True	Document number of the person to consult.	123456789
city	String	True	City where file searches are required, only applies to major cities in Colombia.	CALI

List of allowed cities

• BOGOTA

• VILLAVICENCIO

• TUNJA

• QUIBDO

• CALI

• POPAYAN

• PASTO

• PALMIRA

• NEIVA

• MEDELLIN

• MANIZALES

• IBAGUE

• FLORENCIA

• BUGA

• BUCARAMANGA

• BARRANQUILLA

• ARMENIA

Request

JavaScript

import axios from 'axios';

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.verifik.co/v2/co/rama/juzgado/expedientes',
  params: {documentType: 'CC', documentNumber: '123456789',city:'CALI'},
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    Authorization: 'jwt <tu_token>'
  }
};

try {
  const { data } = await axios.request(options);
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.verifik.co")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v2/co/rama/juzgado/expedientes?documentType=null&documentNumber=null&city=null", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Swift

var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://api.verifik.co/v2/co/rama/juzgado/expedientes?documentType=null&documentNumber=null&city=null")!,timeoutInterval: Double.infinity)
request.httpMethod = "GET"

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in 
  guard let data = data else {
    print(String(describing: error))
    return
  }
  print(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!)
}

task.resume()

PHP

<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new HTTP_Request2();
$request->setUrl('https://api.verifik.co/v2/co/rama/juzgado/expedientes?documentType&documentNumber&city');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
$request->setConfig(array(
  'follow_redirects' => TRUE
));
try {
  $response = $request->send();
  if ($response->getStatus() == 200) {
    echo $response->getBody();
  }
  else {
    echo 'Unexpected HTTP status: ' . $response->getStatus() . ' ' .
    $response->getReasonPhrase();
  }
}
catch(HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {
  echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

Response

200

{
    "data": {
        "appeal": "00",
        "city": "CALI",
        "codeRoom": "04",
        "consOffice": "002",
        "corporation": "40",
        "court": "8021",
        "courtOfepms": "002",
        "documentNumber": "12345678",
        "documentType": "CC",
        "filingNumber": "76892400400220030012300",
        "municipality": "76892",
        "name": "MATEO VERIFIK",
        "receiptDate": "27/8/2010",
        "representative": "MATEO VERIFIK",
        "year": "2003"
    },
    "signature": {
        "dateTime": "April 5, 2024 2:25 PM",
        "message": "Certified by Verifik.co"
    },
    "id": "0X1J0"
}

404

{
    "code": "NotFound",
    "message": "Record not found.",
    "signature": {
        "dateTime": "August 31, 2022 3:24 PM",
        "message": "Certified by Verifik.co"
    }
}

409

{
    "code": "MissingParameter",
    "message": "missing documentType\n. missing documentNumber\n"
}

409

{
    "code": "MissingParameter",
    "message": "documentType must be one of: [CC,NIT,CE]"
}