# County Property Owner & Assessor Data Lookup (`seemuapps/county-property-owner-scraper`) Actor

Look up a property's current owner name, mailing address, assessed value, and characteristics from public county assessor open-data feeds by street address.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/county-property-owner-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
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## Pricing

$8.00 / 1,000 parcel records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## County Property Owner & Assessor Data Lookup

Look up any property's current owner name, mailing address, assessed value, and building characteristics — straight from public county assessor open-data feeds, by street address, no login required.

### What you get

- Owner name and owner mailing address (where the county publishes it)
- Situs (property) address, parcel ID, and a link to the county's own record
- Assessed value, land use / property type, year built, living area, and lot size — whichever of these each county actually publishes
- Sourced directly from official county assessor / property appraiser open-data services — the same data the county's own map viewer uses

### Use cases

- Real estate investor lead generation — find the owner behind a vacant lot, distressed property, or off-market address
- Skip tracing starting point — get the owner's mailing address to begin direct-mail outreach
- Property research and due diligence before an offer
- Portfolio and comps research — pull assessed value and building details for a list of addresses

### Supported counties

| County | What you get |
|---|---|
| Harris County, TX (Houston) | Owner name, mailing address, situs address, assessed value, land use class, lot size. No year built / living area published on this feed. |
| Miami-Dade County, FL | Owner name, mailing address, situs address, assessed value, land use, year built, living area, lot size — the most complete of the three. |
| Los Angeles County, CA | Situs address, assessed value, land use, year built, living area. Owner name and mailing address are **not** included — California law keeps that off the county's bulk-public GIS feed. |

### How to use

1. Choose **County**
2. Enter **Address** — house number + street name is enough (e.g. `2701 Westheimer` or `801 Biscayne Blvd`). Leave off city/state/zip; the county is already selected. A partial street name with no house number returns every parcel on that street.
3. Set **Max Items** (default 20; set 0 for the source's own cap of 1000)
4. Run the actor — results appear in the **Dataset** tab

### Output format

Each dataset record:

```json
{
  "county": "harris-tx",
  "parcelId": "1147210110005",
  "ownerName": "EVERSMEYER DOUGLAS CHARLES",
  "ownerMailingAddress": "2701 WESTHEIMER RD #11F, HOUSTON, TX, 77098",
  "situsAddress": "2701 WESTHEIMER, HOUSTON, 77098",
  "assessedValue": 420508,
  "landUse": "Z5",
  "yearBuilt": null,
  "livingAreaSqft": null,
  "lotSizeSqft": null,
  "url": "https://hcad.org/"
}
```

Fields a given county doesn't publish are `null` rather than guessed or fabricated.

### Matching notes

- Matching is by house number + street name, not a full geocoded address — it is intentionally forgiving of a missing/extra city, state, or zip in the input, but a misspelled street name will not match.
- A house number with no exact match in the county's data returns zero rows — try dropping the house number to search the whole street.
- Condo/multi-unit buildings can return multiple parcels for the same street address (one per unit) — each unit is its own dataset record.

# Actor input Schema

## `county` (type: `string`):

Which county assessor open-data feed to search.

## `address` (type: `string`):

Street address or partial address to search, e.g. '2701 Westheimer' or '801 Biscayne Blvd'. Leave off city/state/zip — matching is by house number + street name within the selected county only. A partial street name (no house number) returns every parcel on that street, up to Max Items.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of matching parcel records to return. Set 0 for the source service's own cap (1000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "county": "harris-tx",
  "address": "2701 Westheimer",
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One parcel per record. Fields: county, parcelId, ownerName, ownerMailingAddress, situsAddress, assessedValue, landUse, yearBuilt, livingAreaSqft, lotSizeSqft, url. Fields not published by a given county are null.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "address": "2701 Westheimer"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/county-property-owner-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "address": "2701 Westheimer" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/county-property-owner-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "address": "2701 Westheimer"
}' |
apify call seemuapps/county-property-owner-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/county-property-owner-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/wRDZAcRfmhONyANur/builds/c2i82ref60zRI1KMH/openapi.json