LandWatch & LandAndFarm Land Scraper - Extract Rural Land Listings, Farmland Prices & Land Broker Data

Scrape rural land listings from LandWatch and LandAndFarm (the Land.com network, owned by CoStar Group) - extract price, price per acre, acreage, GPS coordinates, property type, price history, photos, and broker contact details for farmland market research, land investment tracking, and rural property databases.

Rural Land Data Use Cases: Farmland, Hunting, Ranch & Investment

• Farmland price tracking - monitor farmland for sale and cropland values by state, county, and price per acre
• Hunting land & recreational property data - collect recreational land listings for hunting, lake, and timber property research
• Ranch land market research - analyze ranch for sale listings, pasture land values, and rural property trends
• Building rural land databases - assemble structured land listings data with price history for appraisals and comparable sales analysis
• Land broker lead generation - extract broker contact details (name, company, phone, email, website, license number) from listing detail pages
• Land investment monitoring - track land price changes over time with automatic scheduling and price history

How the LandWatch and LandAndFarm Scraper Works

This Actor searches LandWatch and LandAndFarm exactly like a human visitor would - no official API required - and converts each listing into a clean JSON record. Start from any search URL (e.g. https://www.landwatch.com/texas-land-for-sale), set a result cap, and the Actor paginates through search results and extracts every listed property. When fetchDetails is enabled, it also opens each listing's detail page to enrich the record with price history, parcel/MLS IDs, amenities, and full broker contact information.

Uses residential proxy rotation by default for reliable access to both marketplaces, and runs 24 extraction requests concurrently inside a single Apify run.

Real Pricing - No Surprises

The Actor is billed pay-per-result, aligned with the actual data you get:

Event	Price
Search result listing	$0.0009 (FREE plan: first 10 listings free)
Detail page enrichment (fetchDetails)	$0.0005 per listing
Actor start	$0.00005

Real examples:

• 1,000 listings, details off -> $0.90 per run
• 1,000 listings, details on -> $1.40 per run (price history + broker contacts included)
• 10,000 listings, details on (max cap) -> $14.00 per run

That is 10x cheaper than the $0.0045+ per-property pricing of typical Land.com network scrapers.

Land Scraper Input Parameters

All input fields come from the Actor's input schema:

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
startUrls	Array (URL editor)	Yes	-	LandWatch search URLs (e.g. https://www.landwatch.com/texas-land-for-sale) or LandAndFarm search URLs (e.g. https://www.landandfarm.com/search/lots-in-south-carolina-for-sale/). Single listing URLs also work.
maxItems	Integer	No	100	Maximum results to extract (1-10,000).
fetchDetails	Boolean	No	true	Fetch each listing's detail page for price history, broker contacts, parcel/MLS IDs, amenities. Adds the $0.0005 detail event per listing.
proxy	Object	No	{ "useApifyProxy": true }	Proxy configuration. Defaults to Apify residential proxy.

Tip: leave fetchDetails off for cheap, broad market sweeps; turn it on when you need price history or broker contacts.

Land Listing Data You Get

Every extracted record includes the search-result fields, enriched with detail-page data when fetchDetails is on. Key fields (full list in the output schema):

• Location: address, city, county, state, stateCode, zip, latitude, longitude
• Pricing: price, priceDisplay, shortPrice, pricePerAcre, priceChangeAmount, priceChangePercentage
• Property: acres, acresDisplay, propertyTypes, propertyTypesLabel, status, statusCode, beds, baths, homesqft, hasHouse, description
• Details (with fetchDetails): priceHistory (date, price, priceDelta, acres, eventTitle), parcelId, mlsId, mlsName, salesPrice, salesDate, amenities
• Media & links: thumbnailUrl, photoUrls, imageCount, videoUrl, virtualTourUrl, externalLink
• Broker / agent: broker.name, broker.company, broker.phone, broker.email, broker.website, broker.licenseNumber, broker.profileUrl
• Meta: source (landwatch / landandfarm), listingId, propertyId, url, listingDate, lastUpdated

Example Input: Scrape Texas Land for Sale

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.landwatch.com/texas-land-for-sale" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Example Output: One Rural Land Listing

Real example of one dataset item (trimmed):

{
    "source": "landwatch",
    "title": "Sisterdale Farms",
    "url": "https://www.landwatch.com/kendall-county-texas-farms-and-ranches-for-sale/pid/425766087",
    "price": 19400000,
    "priceDisplay": "$19,400,000",
    "pricePerAcre": 62580.65,
    "acres": 310,
    "address": "Sisterdale",
    "city": "Boerne",
    "county": "Kendall County",
    "state": "Texas",
    "stateCode": "TX",
    "latitude": 29.9,
    "longitude": -98.7,
    "propertyTypes": ["Farms and Ranches", "Recreational Property"],
    "status": "Active",
    "broker": {
        "name": "Louie Swope",
        "company": "West & Swope Ranches",
        "phone": "(830) 376-7259",
        "website": "https://westandswoperanches.com"
    },
    "priceHistory": [
        { "date": "2026-02-18", "price": 21500000, "eventTitle": "Listed for Sale" },
        { "date": "2026-09-17", "price": 19400000, "priceDelta": -9.77, "eventTitle": "Price" }
    ],
    "photoUrls": ["https://assets.landwatch.com/resizedimages/1920/0/h/80/5513431857"]
}

With fetchDetails enabled the record is further enriched with parcelId, mlsId, mlsName, salesPrice, salesDate, amenities, the broker's email and licenseNumber, and the full photo set.

Automate Land Market Monitoring With Schedules & APIs

The Actor runs on Apify's serverless platform, so every run produces a paginated dataset you can export as JSON, CSV, XML, or Excel - or stream into your own systems:

• REST API - every Apify Actor is callable via the Apify API with just a token
• Webhooks - notify your app (or Zapier / Make / n8n) the moment a run finishes
• Schedules - recommended: weekly farmland price monitoring, monthly market sweeps, or daily only if you track specific listings for price changes

Scheduled runs keep your rural land database current and make price-change tracking (priceChangeAmount, priceHistory) genuinely useful.

Related Land and Real Estate Data Actors

• azzouzana/landwatch-scraper - the most-used LandWatch-only scraper on the Store (61 users); anchor of the LandWatch topic cluster. Pairs well for cross-checking LandWatch data.
• memo23/land-search-cheerio-ppr - cheaper Land.com network search scraping (92 users); strongest keyword overlap in this cluster.
• zen-studio/land-com-scraper-pro - full Land.com network property extraction with 80+ fields; the closest feature-comparable competitor.
• crawlerbros/us-land-scraper - searches LandWatch, LandFlip, and LotFlip for US land; broad coverage of the same land-for-sale topic.
• ahmed_jasarevic/domain-com-au-property-scraper - by the same developer; scrapes Australian real estate listings (price, beds/baths, land size, geo coords) if you also work with the AU property market.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why use this Actor instead of the official LandWatch API?

There is no official public LandWatch API - LandWatch does not expose a documented programmatic interface for its listings. This Actor reads the same public search pages a human visitor sees and returns them as clean, structured JSON. Same for LandAndFarm. No API key, no rate-limit negotiations, no login required.

What are the alternatives to this Actor (or to LandWatch itself)?

For LandWatch/Land.com data: azzouzana/landwatch-scraper, memo23/land-search-cheerio-ppr, zen-studio/land-com-scraper-pro, crawlerbros/us-land-scraper. If you're looking for other land marketplaces entirely: LandFlip, LandHub, LandSearch, and Land.com are the main US alternatives to the LandWatch/LandAndFarm network for rural and recreational land listings.

Is LandWatch the same as LandAndFarm? What is the Land.com network?

LandWatch (founded 2002, Seattle) and LandAndFarm are both part of the Land.com network, owned by CoStar Group since 2017. LandWatch covers land for sale across the US with a strong auction section, while LandAndFarm focuses on farms, ranches, and agricultural property. This Actor covers both marketplaces in a single run - one input, one dataset.

Can I scrape land for sale by state?

Yes. Use state-level search URLs, e.g. https://www.landwatch.com/texas-land-for-sale, https://www.landwatch.com/iowa-land-for-sale, or county-level URLs like https://www.landwatch.com/kendall-county-texas-farms-and-ranches-for-sale/. Each URL is treated as its own search and combined with any cap you set.

How much is farmland per acre in 2026?

For market context: the USDA's 2026 Land Values summary put average US farm real estate at $4,500/acre (+3.4% YoY), cropland at $6,020/acre (first time above $6,000), and pasture at $2,000/acre, with Iowa cropland leading at $10,700/acre. Use this Actor to track asking prices (and pricePerAcre) on actual current listings for your target counties - much more current than annual reports.

What does the detail event actually add?

With fetchDetails: true, each listing gets its price history, parcel ID, MLS ID, sales price/date, amenities, and the full broker record (name, company, phone, email, website, license number). This is what powers comparable-sale analysis and broker lead lists. It costs $0.0005 per listing on top of the $0.0009 result event.

Can I get land broker and agent contacts?

Yes - with fetchDetails: true, the output includes broker.name, broker.company, broker.phone, broker.email, broker.website, broker.licenseNumber, and broker.profileUrl from the listing detail page. Use responsibly and in line with the source sites' terms.

Competitive Positioning

Compared with the other LandWatch/Land.com scrapers on the Store (verified from their published pricing as of September 2026):

Capability	This Actor	azzouzana/landwatch-scraper	memo23/land-search-cheerio-ppr	zen-studio/land-com-scraper-pro
Price per full result	$0.0009 + $0.0005 details	$0.001	$0.00225 + $0.001	$0.00449/property
Marketplaces covered	LandWatch + LandAndFarm	LandWatch only	Land.com network search	Land.com network
Detail-page enrichment (price history, broker)	Yes - $0.0005	-	-	Included at higher price
Free preview	10 listings on FREE plan	-	-	-

Pricing figures taken from each Actor's Store pricing page; $0.0009 result + $0.0005 detail events make this Actor the most cost-efficient option for full detail-enriched land data.

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For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This Actor is callable from any LLM application via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API.

• Purpose: returns one JSON item per rural land listing from LandWatch and LandAndFarm, with price, price per acre, acreage, GPS coordinates, property type, price history, photos, and broker contact data.
• Minimal working input:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.landwatch.com/texas-land-for-sale" }],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "fetchDetails": false
}

• Variant - detail mode (for price history + broker contacts):

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.landwatch.com/iowa-land-for-sale" }],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

• Output fields: source, listingId, title, url, price, pricePerAcre, acres, city, county, state, stateCode, zip, latitude, longitude, propertyTypes, status, description, broker (name/company/phone/email/website/licenseNumber), priceHistory[], photoUrls[], parcelId, mlsId, listingDate, lastUpdated.
• Behaviors an agent should know:
  • Only landwatch.com and landandfarm.com URLs are supported - other domains (e.g. land.com hub pages) will not extract.
  • maxItems is an absolute cap (1-10,000, default 100). Set it explicitly - an unset cap still runs 100.
  • fetchDetails defaults to true and roughly doubles billed events (adds the $0.0005 detail event per listing plus extra requests). Set it to false for cheap breadth.
  • For state-wide sweeps, use {state}-land-for-sale URLs; filtering to a sub-category (e.g. hunting property) works via {state}-land-for-sale/hunting-property.
  • Single listing URLs produce one item with that listing's data.
• Billing: pay-per-result - $0.0009 per listing item + $0.0005 per detail-enriched listing + $0.00005 run start. A 100-item run with details costs ~$0.14.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LandWatch, LandAndFarm, Land.com, or CoStar Group. It accesses only publicly available listing pages on LandWatch and LandAndFarm - no login bypass, no CAPTCHA solving, no access to non-public data.

Users are responsible for complying with the source websites' Terms of Service and with applicable data-protection law when using extracted data, including the GDPR and the CCPA where they apply. Because output can include personal contact data (broker/agent names, emails, phone numbers), you must not use it for unsolicited commercial outreach that would violate laws such as CAN-SPAM or the TCPA. Check the source sites' terms before republishing or reselling listing data.