🏡 LandWatch Scraper

🚀 Collect rural land and property listings from all 50 US states. Filter by state, property type, price range, and acreage. Extract prices, acreage, locations, broker info, and descriptions. No coding required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-16 · 📊 15+ fields per listing · 🗺️ 50 US states · 🏡 12 property types · 💰 Price + acreage filters

The LandWatch Scraper collects property listings with titles, prices, acreage, full location details, broker information, descriptions, and property types. It covers farms, ranches, hunting land, timberland, and more across all 50 US states.

Whether you are a real estate investor tracking rural land prices, a broker building market reports, or a researcher analyzing land trends across the US, this tool delivers structured property data at scale from the leading marketplace for rural real estate.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Real estate investors, land brokers, market researchers, developers, farm/ranch buyers, data analysts	Land price tracking, comparable sales analysis, market reports, parcel sourcing, county-level monitoring

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📋 What the LandWatch Scraper does

• 🏡 Property listings. Collect titles, prices, and acreage from thousands of listings across all 50 US states.
• 📍 Full location data. Get address, city, state, and county for every listing.
• 💰 Pricing details. Extract listing prices for market comparisons and investment analysis.
• 🏠 Property specs. Bedroom counts, bathroom counts, and 12 property types.
• 👤 Broker information. Broker names and company details for each listing.
• 🔍 Flexible search. Filter by state, property type, price range, acreage range, or paste any search URL.

Each record includes a property description and direct link to the original listing.

💡 Why it matters: tracking rural land prices, comparing properties across counties, and building market reports manually means browsing thousands of listing pages. This Actor exports structured land data ready for analysis.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
startUrl	string	""	Direct LandWatch search URL (overrides all filters).
maxItems	integer	10	Max listings. Free: 10, Paid: up to 1,000,000.
state	string	""	US state filter (e.g., texas, california).
propertyType	string	""	Farm, ranch, hunting, timber, homesite, etc.
minPrice	integer	-	Minimum price in USD.
maxPrice	integer	-	Maximum price in USD.
minAcres	integer	-	Minimum acreage.
maxAcres	integer	-	Maximum acreage.

Example: Texas ranches between $100K and $5M.

{
    "state": "texas",
    "propertyType": "ranch-land",
    "minPrice": 100000,
    "maxPrice": 5000000,
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example: hunting land in Colorado under 100 acres.

{
    "state": "colorado",
    "propertyType": "hunting-land",
    "maxAcres": 100,
    "maxItems": 25
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. The Start URL field lets you paste any LandWatch search URL to use all native filters including county-level searches.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 listingId	string	"422917076"
📋 title	string	"Brazos Bluff Ranch"
🔗 url	string	"https://www.landwatch.com/..."
💰 price	string	"$10,721,200"
📐 acreage	string	"428 acres"
🛏️ beds	string	"1"
🚿 baths	string	"1"
📍 address	string	"1950 Consolation Drive"
🏙️ city	string	"Millsap"
🗺️ state	string	"TX"
🏘️ county	string	"Parker County"
📝 description	string	Property description
🏷️ propertyType	string	"Farm"
👤 brokerName	string	"Mac A. Coalson"
🏢 brokerCompany	string	"Coalson Real Estate"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-04-07T16:40:17.471Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🗺️	All 50 states. Coverage across every US state.
🏡	12 property types. Farms, ranches, hunting, timber, homesites, and more.
💰	Price and acreage filters. Target specific ranges for your search.
👤	Broker details. Name and company for every listing.
📍	Full location. Address, city, state, and county breakdown.
🔗	URL input. Paste any LandWatch search URL for custom filters.
⚡	Fast. Collects 100 listings in seconds.

📊 15+ fields per listing with pricing, acreage, location, broker info, and property type.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Filters	Broker data	Setup
⭐ LandWatch Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit	All 50 states	State, type, price, acreage	Yes	⚡ 2 min
Manual browsing	Free	One at a time	UI only	Click each listing	🕒 Hours
Generic web scraper	Varies	Requires setup	Custom config	Not extracted	🕒 30+ min
Other property scrapers	Varies	Varies	Limited	Varies	🕒 Varies

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the LandWatch Scraper page on Apify.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a state, property type, and price/acreage range.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and get results in seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time: 2-3 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

💰 Investment & Brokerage Track new land listings daily Identify undervalued properties Build comparable sales databases Generate market reports for clients

📊 Research & Development Analyze land pricing across regions Find parcels matching acreage and price criteria Create weekly market snapshots Monitor specific counties for new listings

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test LandWatch Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running LandWatch Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running LandWatch Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using LandWatch Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run LandWatch Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use LandWatch Scraper?

Yes. LandWatch Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating LandWatch Scraper

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - Automate land monitoring workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get notifications for new listings
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• GitHub - Trigger from commits
• Google Drive - Export to Sheets

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with LandWatch.com or any of its subsidiaries. Only publicly available data is collected.