LandWatch Scraper

🚀 LandWatch Scraper — Land Listings, Acreage & Price History

Easily extract land for sale from LandWatch.com, the largest US marketplace for rural land, farms and ranches. The LandWatch Scraper turns any LandWatch search URL, or a list of property URLs, into structured property data: price, acreage, price per acre, county, coordinates, full listing history and land attributes such as utilities, wells, road frontage and proposed use.

✨ Features

• 🌾 Complete Land Data: Title, price, acres and hectares, price per acre, property types (farms and ranches, hunting land, timberland, lakefront…), address, city, ZIP, county, state, coordinates, beds, baths, home size, broker and photos.
• 📈 Listing History: Every event LandWatch publishes for a property: listed for sale, price changes (with the % change), acreage changes, auctions and sales, each with its date. The latest price change is also summarized as priceChangeUsd, priceChangePercent and priceChangedAt.
• 🧭 Land Attributes: Structured categories such as Street/Utilities, Proposed Use, Lot Description, Road Frontage, Easements and Activities, kept exactly as the listing states them, with duplicates removed.
• 🏷️ Honest Prices: "Call for price" and auction listings get priceUsd: null and a priceType of contactForPrice or auction, never a fake $1 or $2 price. Auctions include their dates, time zone and title.
• 🔗 Refresh Known Properties: Paste property URLs (…/pid/425766087) to re-check the price, status and history of properties you already track.
• 🔍 Any Search Works: Set filters on landwatch.com (state, county, city, property type, acreage, price) and paste the URL.
• 🧮 No Duplicates: A property found by several searches is saved and charged once.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Find your land on LandWatch: Open a search on landwatch.com, apply any filters and copy the URL. Or collect property page URLs.
2. Choose the depth: Keep it fast with search results only, or turn on Scrape full property details to add listing history, land attributes, county FIPS, the description and all photos.
3. Run the Scraper: Download the properties as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the API.

⚙️ Input

Field	Description
LandWatch URLs	Search pages such as https://www.landwatch.com/texas-land-for-sale or …/texas-land-for-sale/harris-county/acres-under-10, and property pages. Property pages always include full details.
Scrape full property details	Adds listing history, land attributes, county FIPS, description, highlights, all photos and auction details.
Max results	Maximum number of properties to save (default 50).

💰 Pricing

Pay only for the properties you get, with no monthly fee and no extra platform usage costs:

Event	Price	Per 1,000
Actor start: once per run, per GB of memory	$0.00005	–
Property listing: a property saved from search results	$0.001	$1.00
Property detail: a property saved with full details (charged instead of the listing)	$0.0015	$1.50

Properties that are no longer listed are not charged. If full details can't be loaded for a property, it is saved and charged as a plain listing, and detailStatus says why.

📊 Sample Output Data

One property with Scrape full property details enabled (text and photos shortened):

[
    {
        "siteListingId": 427783557,
        "listingId": 28381042,
        "url": "https://www.landwatch.com/edwards-county-texas-farms-and-ranches-for-sale/pid/427783557",
        "title": "#135 Superior Views, Better Hunting",
        "priceUsd": 779950,
        "priceType": "fixed",
        "acres": 108.1,
        "hectares": 43.7465,
        "pricePerAcreUsd": 7215.08,
        "propertyTypes": ["Farms and Ranches", "Hunting Property", "House"],
        "marketStatusCode": 1,
        "address": "7997 SD 5200",
        "city": "Rocksprings",
        "zip": "78880",
        "county": "Edwards County",
        "countyFips": "48137",
        "state": "Texas",
        "stateCode": "TX",
        "region": "Edwards Plateau West Texas",
        "latitude": 29.844100952148438,
        "longitude": -100.3208999633789,
        "beds": 3,
        "baths": 1,
        "halfBaths": null,
        "homeSqft": 934,
        "priceChangeUsd": -35050,
        "priceChangePercent": -4.3,
        "priceChangedAt": "2026-08-11",
        "listedAt": "2026-08-07",
        "lastUpdatedAt": "2026-09-03T14:29",
        "auctionStartAt": null,
        "auctionEndAt": null,
        "brokerName": "Glynn Hendley",
        "brokerCompany": "Western Hill Country Realty",
        "imageCount": 62,
        "mainImageUrl": "https://assets.landwatch.com/resizedimages/10000/0/h/80/1-6406409998",
        "auctionTitle": null,
        "auctionTimezone": null,
        "auctionInfoUrl": null,
        "summary": "This turnkey hunting ranch offers breathtaking Hill Country views, diverse terrain, quality improvements, and exceptional wildlife habitat.…",
        "highlights": [
            "Spectacular Hill Country views with live oak flats and rugged Indian Creek Arroyo",
            "Turnkey improvements including furnished home, guest cabin, well, and septic system"
        ],
        "description": "+/-108.1 Acres Superior Views, Better Hunting \nLocated in south central Edwards County\nStunning variety of terrain, from hill country hilltop views to the deep…",
        "isIrrigated": false,
        "hasResidence": true,
        "parcelReferenceRaw": "0|2595|80114|1",
        "mlsId": null,
        "landAttributes": [
            {
                "group": "Land",
                "category": "Activities",
                "values": ["Hunting", "Off-roading"]
            },
            {
                "group": "Land",
                "category": "Lot Description",
                "values": ["Acreage", "Heavily Treed", "Horses Permitted", "Pasture"]
            },
            {
                "group": "Land",
                "category": "Proposed Use",
                "values": [
                    "Agriculture",
                    "Exotics",
                    "Grazing",
                    "Hobby Farm",
                    "Homestead",
                    "Hunting/Fishing",
                    "Residential Single"
                ]
            },
            {
                "group": "Land",
                "category": "Street/Utilities",
                "values": ["Outside City Limits", "Overhead Utilities", "Septic", "Well"]
            }
        ],
        "listingHistory": [
            {
                "date": "2026-08-11",
                "event": "Price",
                "priceUsd": 779950,
                "priceChangePercent": -4.3,
                "acres": 108.1,
                "acresChange": 0
            },
            {
                "date": "2026-08-07",
                "event": "Listed for Sale",
                "priceUsd": 815000,
                "priceChangePercent": null,
                "acres": 108.1,
                "acresChange": null
            }
        ],
        "imageUrls": [
            "https://assets.landwatch.com/resizedimages/10000/0/h/80/1-6406409998",
            "https://assets.landwatch.com/resizedimages/10000/0/h/80/1-6406409974"
        ],
        "videoUrl": "https://youtu.be/-Qxps3tfcys",
        "brokerProfileUrl": "https://www.landwatch.com/profile/glynn-hendley/4657",
        "externalListingUrl": "https://www.westernhillcountryrealty.com/properties/superior-views%2C-better-hunting",
        "detailStatus": "ok",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T07:33:50.985Z"
    }
]

❓ FAQ

Is parcelReferenceRaw the parcel number (APN)? No. It is LandWatch's internal parcel reference, provided as-is. It is not a county assessor parcel number. Check the county records for the official APN.

Are the land attributes zoning or water rights? No. They are the categories the seller chose on LandWatch, e.g. "Well" or "Proposed Use: Hobby Farm". A missing category means the seller didn't fill it in, not that the property lacks it. Property types such as "Farms and Ranches" are not zoning codes either.

Is the listing history tracked by the scraper? It is the history LandWatch publishes on the property page. To follow changes over time, schedule the scraper with your property URLs and compare runs by siteListingId.

Why did my search stop at 500 properties? LandWatch shows at most 20 pages (500 properties) per search. Split large searches by county, acreage or price range, e.g. …/texas-land-for-sale/price-under-49999. Properties found in more than one search are saved only once.

What is marketStatusCode? The status code LandWatch uses for the listing. 1 means the property is currently for sale. A "Sold" event in the history refers to a past sale and does not mean the current listing is sold.

Find your next acreage faster with the LandWatch Scraper. 🚀