[Deprecated] HOA Documents Scraper

HOA Documents Scraper

Scrape HOA news, legislation, and community documents from HOA United, up to a million per run. Every article comes with its title, author, category, state, publication date, and external source link. No login required. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

Tracking homeowner association legislation, court rulings, and community news across the US means monitoring dozens of local sources. HOA United aggregates this content into a single RSS feed, but manually filtering by state, category, or date range is slow and error-prone. This Actor reads the public HOA United feed directly, applies your filters as each article is read, and returns only the matches in one fixed schema.

Who uses it	What they scrape HOA United for
HOA board members	Monitor legislation and court rulings that affect their community's governing documents and enforcement powers.
Property managers	Track industry news and state-specific regulatory changes to keep client communities compliant.
Real estate attorneys	Collect case law summaries and legislative updates by state to support client advisory work.
Community association consultants	Gather articles on best practices and emerging trends for newsletters and board training materials.

What it does

This Actor collects HOA-related articles from the HOA United RSS feed and returns each one as a flat row with metadata including title, author, category, state, and publication date.

• 📰 RSS feed scraping: reads the public HOA United feed page by page, respecting the start page you set.
• 🏷️ Category filter: narrow results to a specific category like 'Texas', 'Buyer Beware', or 'On the Commons'.
• 🗺️ State filter: limit articles to a single US state, for example 'California' or 'Florida'.
• 📅 Date range: set publishedAfter and publishedBefore to collect only articles from a specific time window.
• 🔗 External source control: choose to include only articles that link to an outside news source, only those without one, or both.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with HOA United data

📜 Monitor HOA legislation by state.

A property management firm runs the Actor weekly with the state filter set to 'Texas' and the category 'News' to catch new bills and regulatory changes before they take effect.

📰 Build a compliance newsletter.

A community association consultant collects articles from the 'Buyer Beware' and 'On the Commons' categories each month, filters by date range, and curates the top stories for a client newsletter.

⚖️ Track court rulings for legal research.

A real estate attorney sets the Actor to collect all articles mentioning a specific legal term in the author or source domain fields, building a running docket of relevant case summaries.

🏘️ Keep a board informed on industry trends.

An HOA board president runs the Actor before each monthly meeting, pulling the latest articles across all categories to brief members on emerging community association issues.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
No API key or registration	The feed is public; the Actor reads it directly with a residential proxy to avoid IP blocks.
State and category filters	Target exactly the jurisdictions and topics you care about without post-processing.
Date range control	Collect historical articles or set up recurring runs for new content only.
Flat, predictable output	Every article lands as one row with the same columns, ready for Excel or a database.

How it compares

No other Store actor targets HOA United the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	HOA Documents Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When HOA United changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

Configure the run

Drive the Actor from the HOA United RSS feed starting at any page, and filters run as each article is read so only matches reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "startPage": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

A larger pull:

{
  "maxItems": 200,
  "startPage": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.03199 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$3.20
1,000 results	$31.99
10,000 results	$319.90

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the HOA Documents Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to HOA United through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/hoa-documents-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting HTTP 403 errors and no results?

The HOA United feed blocks datacenter IPs. Make sure the proxy configuration is set to use Apify Residential proxy with the US country selected. This is the default setting.

Why are my state or category filters returning zero articles?

Check the spelling and capitalization of your filter value. The filter is case-insensitive, but the value must match the exact text used on HOA United, for example 'Texas' not 'TX'.

The run stopped before collecting all articles I expected.

The Actor stops when it reaches maxItems or the end of the feed. Increase maxItems if you hit the limit, or check that your date range and other filters are not too restrictive.

Some articles are missing the author or external source link.

Not every HOA United article includes an author or an external source URL. These fields will be empty in the output when the feed does not provide them. This is expected behavior.

FAQ

Question	Answer
What is HOA United?	HOA United is a website that aggregates news, legislation, and commentary about homeowner associations across the United States. It publishes articles in categories like 'Texas', 'Buyer Beware', and 'On the Commons', often linking to external news sources.
Do I need an account or API key to scrape HOA United?	No. The Actor reads the public RSS feed directly. No login, registration, or API key is required.
Why does the Actor need a residential proxy?	The HOA United feed blocks requests from datacenter IP addresses with an HTTP 403 error. The Actor defaults to Apify's US residential proxy pool to avoid this block.
Can I filter articles by state?	Yes. Use the State Filter input to limit results to a single US state, for example 'Texas', 'California', or 'Florida'. Leave it empty to include all states.
How do I collect only articles from a specific date range?	Set the publishedAfter and publishedBefore inputs to YYYY-MM-DD dates. The Actor will return only articles whose publication date falls within that window.
What does the 'Has External Source' filter do?	Some HOA United articles link to an outside news source like a newspaper. Set this filter to 'yes' to get only articles with an external link, 'no' for only original content, or leave it empty for both.
How many articles can I scrape in one run?	You can set maxItems up to 1,000,000. The Actor stops when it reaches that count or when the feed runs out of pages.
Can I resume a run from a specific page?	Yes. Use the Start Page input to begin scraping from any page number in the RSS feed. This is useful if a previous run was interrupted or you want to skip recent articles.
What output formats are supported?	The Actor exports to CSV, JSON, Excel, and XML. You can choose the format in the Apify run settings or download the dataset directly.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by HOA United. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.