# Changelog of Distressed Property Lead Scraper - Probate & Foreclosure (`parsebird/distressed-property-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parsebird/distressed-property-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/parsebird/distressed-property-scraper.md

## Changelog

### v1.0 — 2026-08-02

- Initial release
- Search probate, foreclosure, sheriff sale, tax lien, and tax sale records across 24 verified US county and state Socrata open-data portals spanning 12 states
- Dynamic dataset discovery via the Socrata catalog API, with a keyword + category relevance filter to exclude administrative/procedural datasets that mention an event type but aren't property-level records
- Normalizes heterogeneous source columns into one 30-field schema (case number, defendant/plaintiff, property address, parcel ID, sale/filing date, bid amounts, status, and more), with the original source row preserved in `raw_source_fields`
- Filters: event type, US state, county, date range, minimum estimated equity, owner-occupied only
- Even per-event-type distribution when multiple event types are requested, so results aren't dominated by whichever type happens to have the most source data
- Drops rows that have no identifying case/property field (e.g. aggregate county-level statistics tables), so every returned record is an actionable lead