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NYC ACRIS Probate Property Recordings Scraper

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NYC ACRIS Probate Property Recordings Scraper

Scrape probate-coded property recordings from NYC's Automated City Register Information System (ACRIS) — Certified Copies of Will, Notices of Estate Tax Lien, Releases of Estate Tax Lien, Transfer on Death Deeds, and Letters Patent across all 5 boroughs.

Filter by document type, borough, and recording date. Output includes decedent name, executor name, parcel block / lot / street address, full party list, and the ACRIS permalink to the recorded document image.

What it returns

Each record includes:

  • document_id — 16-digit ACRIS document ID
  • crfn — City Register File Number
  • record_date, document_date — ISO-8601 timestamps
  • document_type — ACRIS code (WILL, NTXL, RTXL, TODD, LTPA)
  • document_type_label — human-readable label
  • borough, block, lot, street_address — parcel identifiers
  • parties — full party list (strings: "PARTY 1: SMITH, JANE (BRONX, NY 10466)")
  • decedent_name — parsed from PARTY 1 (testator / grantor)
  • executor_name — parsed from PARTY 2 (executor / petitioner / grantee)
  • estate_value — present on NTXL filings that carry a doc-amount
  • document_url, document_image_url — ACRIS permalinks

Probate-relevant ACRIS document types

Code Label Volume (2026)
TODD Transfer on Death Deed active
RTXL Release of Estate Tax Lien active
WILL Certified Copy of Will sparse
NTXL Notice of Estate Tax Lien sparse
LTPA Letters Patent rare

Inputs

  • Boroughs — Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island. Empty = all 5.
  • Document Types — any subset of WILL / NTXL / RTXL / TODD / LTPA. Empty = all 5.
  • Recorded Within Last N Days — 7 / 31 are server presets; other values translate to a date range. Max 31 days per ACRIS server rule.
  • Record Date From / To — explicit YYYY-MM-DD window (overrides the recency filter). Capped at 31 days server-side.
  • Max Items — record cap.
  • Proxy Configuration — residential US proxy recommended for stable session cookies.

Pairs With

This actor surfaces the property-event side of NYC probate. The companion Probate & Foreclosure Leads Scraper covers the court-filing side via NYC Surrogate / Socrata. Joining decedent name across the two gives the complete decedent-to-property lead flow.

Source

Live data from https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentType — NYC Department of Finance, Office of the City Register.

Need More Features?

Open an issue or contact the actor author. Common asks: per-borough scheduled exports, decedent-name fuzzy matching against Socrata, full document-image OCR.

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