GovEase Scraper - Tax Lien & Tax Deed Auctions and Parcels

What does GovEase Scraper do?

GovEase Scraper exports the county tax sales listed on GovEase (liveauctions.govease.com), the online platform where US counties run tax lien, tax deed, redeemable deed and public-trustee foreclosure auctions. One row is either a parcel in a sale - parcel number, owner, minimum bid or face value, assessed value, legal description - or an auction - the county sale with its start date, registration deadline, deposit and payment terms and the county's contact. Built for tax lien investors, tax deed buyers, real-estate wholesalers and data teams who want every GovEase sale in a spreadsheet, a CRM or a daily alert instead of clicking through each county.

Also searched as: GovEase API, GovEase tax lien list, GovEase tax deed list, online tax sale scraper, county tax auction data.

• Every county on GovEase in one run: on 2026-10-16 GovEase listed 90 auctions in 10 states (CA, CO, IN, KS, MO, OK, PA, TN, TX, WA); 48 had parcels posted, 8,115 parcels in all. The whole site reads in about a minute.
• The whole parcel list, not one page: each sale's list comes from GovEase's own export - all 2,227 parcels of Costilla County CO's sale in one request.
• Auction terms in every row: start date, registration deadline, pre-bid opening, deposit requirement, bidder fee, bid increment and clock, payment handler, methods and deadline, the county contact (name, phone, email), required forms and the county's own instructions.
• Map point and parcel boundary: turn on parcel pages for latitude/longitude and the boundary polygon (91.7% of 1,000 parcels on 2026-10-16), the full situs address, status, current bid, time left and posted notices.
• Sale results: a parcel's page stays up after the sale with "Auction Sold" and the result - the winning bid on bid-up sales, the winning overbid ($ and % over face value) on lien sales. Feed earlier sourceUrls back in to collect them.
• New-sale monitor: monitor mode delivers only auctions and parcels that earlier runs have not delivered.
• No login, no account, no API key. Pay only for delivered rows - no start fee.

What data can you get from GovEase?

🆔 Parcel number (`parcelId`)	🔖 GovEase unique # + item id	🏛️ County, state, agency
🏷️ Sale type (Tax Lien, Tax Deed...)	💵 Minimum bid or face value	🏠 Situs address
👤 Owner name	📬 Owner mailing address	📊 Assessed value (land, improvements)
📅 Tax year	📜 Legal + property description	📈 Lien-to-value %, discount vs assessed
🗓️ Auction start + pre-bid opening	⏰ Registration deadline + status	💰 Deposit, bidder fee, payment terms
☎️ County contact name, phone, email	📝 Required forms + county instructions	📍 Latitude / longitude + boundary
🚦 Status, current bid, time left	🏆 Winning bid / overbid on sold parcels	📎 Parcel notices + county parcel card

Across all 8,115 parcels on 2026-10-16 the parcel number was filled on 99.8%, the amount (minimum bid or face value) on 95.3%, the owner on 93.5%, the tax year on 90.6% and the legal description on 82.9%. What else a parcel carries depends on what its county sends GovEase - see the fill table below.

How to scrape GovEase with GovEase Scraper

1. Create a free Apify account - $5 of monthly credit, no card needed.
2. Open GovEase Scraper and click Try for free.
3. Pick parcels, auctions or both; add states, counties, sale types or an amount range if you want fewer rows.
4. Click Start. Rows stream into the dataset sale by sale.
5. Open the Storage tab and Export as JSON, CSV or Excel - or schedule it daily with monitor mode on.

⬇️ Input

Parameter	Type	Description
🔍 What to scrape
scope	Select	parcels (default), auctions or both (each auction row followed by its parcels)
auctions	List	Pin named sales: an auction id (1391), a GovEase auction or registration URL, or a county-site slug (calosangeles). Empty = every listed auction
parcelUrls	List	GovEase parcel page URLs (sourceUrl of earlier rows): reads only those pages - status, current bid, and once sold the winning bid or winning overbid
🎯 Filters (on GovEase's auction list, before any parcel list is read)
states	List	Two-letter codes, e.g. CO, TN, TX
counties	List	County names with or without "County", e.g. Los Angeles, Costilla
saleTypes	Select	Tax Lien, Tax Deed, Redeemable Tax Deed, Deed, Foreclosure, Mobile Home Delinquent Tax Sale, Mobile Home Distraint Sale
upcomingOnly	Boolean	Only auctions starting today or later. Default false
auctionStartFrom / auctionStartTo	Date	Auction start-date window (YYYY-MM-DD)
✂️ Refine parcels
keywords	List	Whole words or phrases in the parcel number, owner, address, legal or property description, e.g. LLC, VACANT LOT
minAmount / maxAmount	Integer	Minimum bid or face value range in USD
withAddressOnly	Boolean	Only parcels with a street address
➕ Extra data
includeParcelDetails	Boolean	Open each delivered parcel's page: map point + boundary, full situs address, status, current bid, time left, county parcel card, notices. Default false - same price per row
🔁 Monitoring
monitorMode	Boolean	Deliver only auctions and parcels not delivered by earlier runs with the same filters
monitorKey	Text	Optional name for the monitor memory
📦 Output
maxResults	Integer	Most rows per run. Default 100; 0 = no cap
maxParcelsPerAuction	Integer	Most parcels from one sale; 0 = no cap
⚙️ Advanced
maxConcurrency	Integer	Parcel pages read at once (1-16). Default 6
proxyConfiguration	Proxy	Not needed - GovEase answers direct requests; a refused route falls back to US residential by itself, under a per-run cap

Input JSON

{
  "scope": "both",
  "states": ["CO"],
  "saleTypes": ["tax-lien"],
  "maxAmount": 5000,
  "maxParcelsPerAuction": 50,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Leave the form empty for the next sales

With no filters the run walks GovEase's auction list from the soonest upcoming sale onward and stops at maxResults, so a capped run gives you what you can still register for and bid on.

Pick parcels or auctions before anything else

parcels is one row per property. auctions is one row per county sale (90 rows covers the whole site) with the registration deadline, deposit, payment rules, county contact and parcel count - the calendar view. both puts each sale's row ahead of its parcels.

Filter the sales, then refine the parcels

States, counties, sale types and the start-date window are applied to GovEase's list of sales, so a narrow run reads fewer parcel lists and finishes faster. Keywords, the amount range and the address switch are applied to each sale's parcels.

Collect results after a sale

GovEase removes a sale's parcel list when the sale closes, but each parcel's own page stays up with "Auction Sold" or "Auction Closed" and the end time. A sold bid-up parcel shows its winning bid (winningBid); a sold lien parcel shows the winning overbid over face value (winningOverbid in dollars, winningOverbidPct; "Face Value" = 0% and no dollar amount). Save the sourceUrls while the sale is live, then run them through parcelUrls afterwards. On 2026-10-16, 29 parcel pages of Marion County IN's finished lien sale returned 27 "Auction Sold" (25 with a dollar overbid, e.g. $56,112 on a $4,183.19 face value = 1,341%) and 2 "Auction Closed".

⬆️ Output

A parcel row with its parcel page (includeParcelDetails on), from a run on 2026-10-16 (boundary shortened):

{
  "recordType": "parcel",
  "auctionId": 1391,
  "itemId": 27653,
  "parcelId": "2024002096",
  "state": "CA",
  "county": "Los Angeles",
  "address": "22040 GAULT ST UNIT 50",
  "saleType": "Tax Deed",
  "amountType": "minimumBid",
  "minimumBid": 41374,
  "legalDescription": "*TR=38920 CONDOMINIUM*UNIT 50",
  "status": "Auction Scheduled",
  "timeLeft": "03d 22h",
  "latitude": 34.1986870769506,
  "longitude": -118.607376836511,
  "parcelBoundary": [[[-118.60701905, 34.19910691], [-118.6070166, 34.19828219]]],
  "auctionName": "2026B Los Angeles County Tax Deed Auction",
  "auctionStartDate": "2026-10-17T17:00:00-05:00",
  "registrationCloses": "2026-10-13T15:00:00-05:00",
  "depositRequired": true,
  "sourceUrl": "https://liveauctions.govease.com/ca/calosangeles/1391/openstandardparcel/27653/2024002096"
}

A tax lien parcel from the same day (the county publishes the owner's mailing address):

{
  "recordType": "parcel",
  "auctionId": 1295,
  "parcelId": "R004087",
  "county": "Bent",
  "state": "CO",
  "ownerName": "ABBATE-DEVARGAS GINETTA MARIA & (JTWROS)",
  "ownerMailingAddress": "435 COTTONWOOD AVENUE LAS ANIMAS, CO 81054",
  "saleType": "Tax Lien",
  "amountType": "faceValue",
  "faceValue": 554.63,
  "taxYear": 2025,
  "legalDescription": "N 75 FT OF LOTS 1 THRU 6; BLK 70; LA",
  "propertyDescription": "Actual Value: $136,544 Tax $488.30 Interest $31.33 Penalty $0.00 Other $35.00",
  "auctionStartDate": "2026-11-05T11:00:00-06:00"
}

An auction row (instructions and forms shortened):

{
  "recordType": "auction",
  "auctionId": 1295,
  "auctionName": "2026 Bent County Tax Lien Auction",
  "state": "CO",
  "county": "Bent",
  "saleType": "Tax Lien",
  "listingFormat": "face-value",
  "parcelCount": 419,
  "auctionStartDate": "2026-11-05T11:00:00-06:00",
  "prebiddingOpens": "2026-11-04T11:00:00-06:00",
  "registrationOpens": "2026-10-05T11:00:00-05:00",
  "registrationCloses": "2026-11-04T13:30:00-06:00",
  "registrationStatus": "open",
  "bidClockLength": "30 seconds",
  "bidIncrement": 1,
  "depositRequired": false,
  "paymentHandledBy": "Bent County Treasurer",
  "contactName": "Kathy Brown and Jennifer Godfrey",
  "contactPhone": "(719) 456-2211",
  "contactEmail": "bent.treasurer@bentcounty.gov",
  "registrationRequirements": [{ "name": "Buyer Agreement Form 2026 (Bent, CO)", "documentUrl": "https://liveauctions.govease.com/FormsDocs/COBentBuyerAgreement (7) (2).docx" }],
  "countyInstructions": "TAX LIEN AUCTION - OVERBID AUCTION\nTHERE WILL BE A 10 SECOND CLOCK RESET ON EACH PARCEL\n...",
  "parcelListCsvUrl": "https://liveauctions.govease.com/OpenAuction/CountyOpenAuctionsDownload?stateAbbr=co&countySlug=cobent&countyID=1295"
}

Fields and measured fill

Parcel fields: all 8,115 parcels on 2026-10-16 (and the 7,562 parcels of 2026-10-14 where a county field came and went with one sale). Parcel-page fields: 1,000 parcels with includeParcelDetails on, 2026-10-16. A county that does not send a field leaves it null - never a zero.

Field	What it is	Fill
auctionId, itemId, uniqueNumber, parcelId	GovEase sale id, parcel item id, the sale's own lot number, parcel number	100% / 100% / 100% / 99.8%
state, county, saleType, auctionName, entity	Where, what kind of sale, which sale and agency	100%
amountType, minimumBid, faceValue	Minimum bid on bid-up sales, face value (taxes, interest, fees owed) on lien sales	95.3% (one of the two)
ownerName	Owner (or case style on Texas sales)	93.5%
ownerMailingAddress	Owner's mailing address, where the county publishes it	5.3% (12.7% on 10-14)
address	Situs address from the list	34.9% (39.9% on 10-14)
taxYear	Delinquent tax year	90.6%
assessedTotal	Assessed value	10.8% (18.5% on 10-14)
landValue, improvementsValue	Assessed land / improvements	0% today; 6.9% / 5.2% on 10-14 (Marion County IN's sale)
lienToValuePct	Face value as % of the county's assessed value (Colorado assessed values are a fraction of market value)	10.1%
discountVsAssessedPct, equityMarginEstimate	Minimum bid vs assessed value, where both exist	0.6%
legalDescription, propertyDescription	Legal text; property notes (Colorado lists actual value, tax, interest and fees here)	82.9% / 51.5%
auctionStartDate, registrationCloses, depositRequired, bidderRegistrationFee	Sale terms on every parcel row	100% / 99.6% / 100% / 9.8%
latitude, longitude, parcelBoundary	Map point and boundary polygon (parcel pages)	91.7% / 91.5%
situsAddress	Full situs address, with city and ZIP where GovEase has them (parcel pages)	52.6%
status, statusDetail, timeLeft	"Auction Scheduled" / "Auction Sold" / "Auction Closed", the start or end line, time left	100% / 75.3% / 75.3%
currentBid, winningBid, auctionEndedAt	Highest bid so far; the winning bid (bid-up sales) and end time once sold	while bidding / after the sale
winningOverbid, winningOverbidPct	Winning premium over face value on a sold lien parcel, in $ and %	after the sale: 25 / 28 of 29 Marion IN pages
countyParcelUrl, documents, documentsBundleUrl	County parcel card link; posted notices (category, file, date) and one-PDF bundle	57.2% / 53.4% on 10-14's 1,000; 0% / 1.9% on 10-16's
auctionUrl, registrationUrl, sourceUrl	Links to the sale, its registration page and the parcel page	100%

Auction rows (all 90 on 2026-10-16): sale name, state, county, agency, type, start date, parcel count, bid clock, increment, payment handler, county contact name and instructions 100%; contact phone 98.9%, email 96.7%, registration window 95.6%, pre-bid opening 75.6%, payment methods 75.6%, deposit instructions 61.1%, payment deadline 47.8%, bidder fee 18.9%.

Use cases

• 💼 Tax lien investors - pull every Colorado, Pennsylvania or Tennessee lien sale with face values and owners before registration closes.
• 🏚️ Tax deed buyers and flippers - filter deed and foreclosure sales by county and minimum bid, then map the parcels with the boundary polygons.
• 📬 Wholesalers and direct-mail teams - owner names and mailing addresses from lien sales for pre-sale outreach.
• 🗓️ Funds and bidder services - the auction calendar with registration deadlines, deposits and county contacts in one table.
• 📊 Analysts - collect sold prices and lien overbids with parcelUrls after each sale closes.
• 🤖 Alerts - a daily monitor run that posts only new sales and newly listed parcels to Slack or a sheet.

How much does it cost to scrape GovEase?

Pay per result: $0.004 per parcel or auction ($4 per 1,000). No start fee. Parcel pages (map, status, notices) cost nothing extra. Parcels removed by your filters, rows an earlier monitor run delivered, and parcels whose page could not be read are never delivered or charged.

Run	Rows	Price
Prefilled demo	10 parcels	$0.04
Default ({})	100 parcels	$0.40
Every auction (calendar)	90 auctions	$0.36
1,000 parcels with parcel pages	1,000	$4.00
The whole site	8,205 rows	~$32.82

Measured speed (2026-10-16, direct): 10 parcels in ~12 s, 100 in ~6 s, 1,000 in ~9 s, 1,000 with parcel pages in ~3.5 min, all 90 auctions in ~43 s, the whole site in ~1 min.

Integrations, API, scheduling & MCP

Put the actor on a schedule with monitorMode on and each run delivers only new sales and newly posted parcels. Send rows to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n through Apify integrations, or fire a webhook when a run finishes. Call it from code with the Python or JavaScript client, or give it to an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

More tax sale and auction scrapers

• 🏛️ Bid4Assets Scraper - county tax deed and sheriff sale parcels on Bid4Assets (CA, FL, LA, NV, OK, PA, WA, WI).
• 🏠 Auction.com Scraper - foreclosure and bank-owned homes.
• 🏙️ Municibid Scraper - government surplus auctions and alerts.
• 🚜 GovDeals Scraper - government surplus auction lots.
• 🔨 HiBid Auction Scraper - lots, bids and prices across HiBid auctioneers.
• See all our actors on our Apify profile.

Limits & empty runs

• GovEase lists only live and upcoming sales; a closed sale's parcel list disappears and its results are not published as a list. Each parcel page keeps its own outcome - see "Collect results after a sale" - so keep the sourceUrls of the parcels you care about.
• No interest rate is published per parcel; Colorado sales put the tax, interest and fee amounts in propertyDescription.
• GovEase's export replaces non-ASCII characters (degree signs in metes-and-bounds legals, curly apostrophes) with ??; text is delivered as GovEase exports it.
• Some auctions are county "sale postings" (Tennessee special commissioner sales) with one notice-style parcel and no amount.
• A sale with no parcels posted yet still returns its auction row (parcelCount: 0); a parcel run skips it.
• Filters that match nothing end with 0 rows and cost nothing.

❓ FAQ

How much does GovEase Scraper cost?

$0.004 per parcel or auction delivered, parcel pages included. There is no start fee, so a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

How many parcels can GovEase Scraper return?

Everything GovEase lists: 8,115 parcels in 48 sales and 90 auction rows on 2026-10-16. Set maxResults to 0 for no cap.

Can GovEase Scraper alert me to new tax sales?

Yes. Turn on monitorMode and schedule the actor daily; each run delivers only auctions and parcels it has not delivered before for the same filters.

Does GovEase Scraper return the owner's name and address?

The owner's name comes on 93.5% of parcels. The mailing address comes where the county sends it to GovEase (on 2026-10-16: Bent County CO's lien sale, two Colorado foreclosure sales and one Tennessee posting); the situs address is on 34.9% of list rows and 52.6% of parcel pages.

Does GovEase Scraper give the registration deadline and deposit?

Yes - every parcel row carries its sale's registration deadline, deposit requirement and bidder fee, and auction rows add the full payment terms, county contact, required forms and the county's instructions (where deposit amounts are written).

Can GovEase Scraper get sold prices?

Yes, parcel by parcel: a sold parcel's page keeps "Auction Sold" with the winning bid (bid-up sales) or the winning overbid in $ and % (lien sales). Save sourceUrls during the sale and run them through parcelUrls afterwards.

Can I use GovEase Scraper with the Apify API or MCP?

Yes. Every input works through the API, and the actor is available to AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Do I need a GovEase account to use GovEase Scraper?

No. The actor reads GovEase's public auction pages and exports as a guest - no login, no bidder account, no key.

Why did GovEase Scraper return no results?

No listed sale matched your filters (for example a state with no GovEase sale this season), or the matching sales have no parcels posted yet - try scope: "auctions" to see them. RUN_SUMMARY lists every sale read with its parcel count.

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