NYC ACRIS Probate Property Recordings Scraper

Scrape probate-coded property recordings from NYC's Automated City Register Information System (ACRIS) — Certified Copies of Will, Notices of Estate Tax Lien, Releases of Estate Tax Lien, Transfer on Death Deeds, and Letters Patent across all 5 boroughs.

Filter by document type, borough, and recording date. Output includes decedent name, executor name, parcel block / lot / street address, full party list, and the ACRIS permalink to the recorded document image.

What it returns

Each record includes:

• document_id — 16-digit ACRIS document ID
• crfn — City Register File Number
• record_date, document_date — ISO-8601 timestamps
• document_type — ACRIS code (WILL, NTXL, RTXL, TODD, LTPA)
• document_type_label — human-readable label
• borough, block, lot, bbl, street_address — parcel identifiers (bbl is the standard Borough-Block-Lot key)
• parties — full party list (strings: "PARTY 1: SMITH, JANE (BRONX, NY 10466)")
• decedent_name — parsed from PARTY 1 (testator / grantor)
• executor_name — parsed from PARTY 2 (executor / petitioner / grantee)
• estate_value — present on NTXL filings that carry a doc-amount
• document_url, document_image_url — ACRIS permalinks

Probate-relevant ACRIS document types

Code	Label	Volume (2026)
TODD	Transfer on Death Deed	active
RTXL	Release of Estate Tax Lien	active
WILL	Certified Copy of Will	sparse
NTXL	Notice of Estate Tax Lien	sparse
LTPA	Letters Patent	rare

Inputs

• Boroughs — Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island. Empty = all 5.
• Document Types — any subset of WILL / NTXL / RTXL / TODD / LTPA. Empty = all 5.
• Recorded Within Last N Days — 7 / 31 are server presets; other values translate to a date range. Max 31 days per ACRIS server rule.
• Record Date From / To — explicit YYYY-MM-DD window (overrides the recency filter; MM/DD/YYYY is accepted too). Windows wider than 31 days are searched in 31-day slices.
• Max Items — record cap.

Pairs With

This actor surfaces the property-event side of NYC probate. The companion Probate & Foreclosure Leads Scraper covers the court-filing side via NYC Surrogate / Socrata. Joining decedent name across the two gives the complete decedent-to-property lead flow.

Source

Live data from https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentType — NYC Department of Finance, Office of the City Register.

Need More Features?

Open an issue or contact the actor author. Common asks: per-borough scheduled exports, decedent-name fuzzy matching against Socrata, full document-image OCR.