Ascension Works Tax Sale Ranking Scraper

Step 3 of 3: rank the authorized listings from Step 2 using the customer's criteria.

Paste the secure listing handle from Step 2 to rank its exact authorized listing snapshot as county-level research targets and as one combined cross-county listing pool. No customer workbook or route address is required.

Independent research utility. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency, county, auction platform, or data provider.

About Ascension Works

Ascension Works is a venture operated by Arete Praxis LLC. The original software, documentation, configuration, and product presentation for this Actor are proprietary intellectual property of Arete Praxis LLC under the Ascension Works brand. Public records, official government materials, and third-party materials remain subject to their respective rights and terms.

Try the other Ascension Works scrapers

• U.S. County Research Scraper checks customer-scoped research availability across up to 1,000 counties or county equivalents.
• Tax Sale Listings Scraper cleans, filters, and organizes authorized listing records across up to 1,000 counties.

Two ranking modes

County ranking compares each requested county using disclosed metrics that are available in the Step 2 listing set: qualifying count, overall match rate, available starting-cost and value context, sale timing, and completeness. You can set hard county exclusions and adjust metric weights. Missing metrics are shown and omitted from the weighted score instead of silently being scored as zero.

Listing ranking applies the selected hard filters and deterministic profile to every qualifying record across all included counties. It produces one global rank, plus a rank within each county, rather than disconnected county lists. Every result includes matching reasons, material missing fields, data date, screening cautions, and a customer-specific identifier.

Important limits

Each request can include 1 to 1,000 counties or county equivalents across multiple states or territories. Same-named counties in different states remain distinct. Up to 1,000 authorized listings can be evaluated in one run.

maxResults is the number of listing rows per page. County comparisons cover the confirmed scope on every page, while listing ranks remain global across the entire combined qualifying pool. The summary reports exact totals and supplies a signed, expiring continuation cursor until every qualifying listing has been returned. A page cap is never described as all listings.

The standard mode opens the signed, expiring Step 2 handle and verifies the customer, exact jurisdictions, years, service revision, and exact listing snapshot before ranking. The handle also carries Step 2's signed collection completeness summary, so a held, failed, or partially collected county remains clearly labeled incomplete in every ranking page. A strict customer-supplied fallback is available only when the customer confirms the right to use those records. Route addresses, page content, credentials, personal owner/contact information, unknown fields, malformed records, duplicate events, stale or past records, and out-of-scope rows cannot enter the result.

Scores are research aids, not predictions and not legal, tax, title, appraisal, financial, or investment advice. Independently verify official records, title, liens, redemption rules, bidding eligibility, condition, and sale status.

This Actor receives no routing details. It ranks only the exact listing snapshot authorized by Step 2, or a separately rights-attested customer-supplied set, and returns only customer-safe factual fields and disclosed scoring reasons.

Data handling

Your input and final output are stored in this Actor run's Apify default storages and follow your Apify account's access and retention settings. Customer-supplied mode is processed inside this run.

When an eligible service-side route is used, the bounded request is sent to a restricted Ascension Works-owned Apify run. After its result is copied and validated, this Actor deletes that temporary run's default input, output, and queue storages. If it cannot confirm all three deletions, no research result is delivered. Minimal service logs record only product type, output count, and status; Apify may retain generic run metadata and logs under its platform policies.

Do not submit owner or taxpayer names, mailing or contact details, credentials, raw pages, or other unnecessary personal data. If you enable Apify developer run sharing or attach a run to an Actor Issue, Apify may provide the creator access to the shared run's input, output, and logs.

Support and corrections

Use the Actor's Apify Issue or support control for a reproducible ranking or normalization problem. Include only the run ID, ranking profile, and generic status; never post credentials, private records, or personal data. Ranking contracts, schemas, and safety controls are periodically rechecked, and affected processing may be held unavailable while a correction is reviewed.

Early-release status

This early release supports secure Step 2-to-Step 3 county and combined-pool listing ranking with deterministic continuation, plus a strict customer-supplied fallback. One useful completed batch of up to 1,000 authorized records and 1,000 counties receives exactly one screening_completed event: $0.495000 FREE, $0.470250 BRONZE, $0.445500 SILVER, or $0.420750 GOLD, plus the $0.00005 Actor-start event. Platform usage is included. Set at least $0.49505 as the run charge authorization. County and listing rows are included in the one batch price and are never charged separately. Empty, invalid, unsupported, unavailable, manual-review, and held batches receive no custom paid event.