Daft.ie Property Scraper — Irish Listings, BER & Agent Leads

What does Daft.ie Property Scraper do?

This Actor scrapes Daft.ie — Ireland's #1 property portal — and turns live for-sale and to-rent listings into clean, structured JSON. For every property it extracts the title/address, asking price, bedrooms, bathrooms, property type, BER energy rating, agent name/branch/phone, PSRA licence, all photos, GPS coordinates and the full description.

It runs entirely on the Apify platform with proxy rotation, scheduling, webhooks and API access built in — no login, no API key, no browser needed. It uses Daft's own internal JSON search API (with an automatic HTML fallback), so runs are fast and cheap (plain HTTP, ~0.5–1 compute unit per 1,000 listings).

Why use Daft.ie Property Scraper?

• Real-estate investors — monitor asking prices, BER ratings and new listings by county to spot undervalued deals.
• Market researchers & analysts — build Irish housing price indexes, price-per-m² comparisons and BER-vs-price studies.
• PropTech startups — power map-based search, valuation models and alerting with live coordinates and Eircodes.
• Agent lead-gen — one run over a county becomes a targeted outreach list: agent name, agency/branch, phone and PSRA licence.

How to use Daft.ie Property Scraper

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. Pick a Section (For Sale / To Rent), a County (or All Ireland), and optionally filter by property type, price range, min bedrooms and min BER rating.
3. Set Max listings (free users are capped at 10) and choose whether to fetch detail pages for descriptions and agent phones.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results from the Dataset tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML — or pull them via the Apify API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
section	string	sale	sale or rent
county	string	all	County to search (All Ireland, Dublin, Cork, Galway, …)
propertyType	string	any	Houses, apartments, townhouses, sites, …
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	—	Asking price (sale) or monthly rent (rent) in EUR
minBeds	integer	—	Minimum bedrooms
minBer	string	any	Minimum BER rating (A1 = best)
sort	string	publishDateDesc	Newest first / price low-high / price high-low
maxItems	integer	100	Max listings (0 = unlimited; free users capped at 10)
includeDetails	boolean	true	Fetch detail pages for description, agent phone, PSRA licence, Eircode
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel detail-page fetches
proxy	object	{ useApifyProxy: true, apifyProxyGroups: ["RESIDENTIAL"] }	Apify Proxy configuration (residential recommended — Daft is Cloudflare-protected)

Output

Each dataset item is one listing. Example:

{
  "id": "6593191",
  "url": "https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/apartment-16-37-main-street-clongriffin-dublin-13/6593191",
  "title": "Apartment 16, 37 Main Street, Clongriffin, Dublin 13",
  "address": "Apartment 16, 37 Main Street, Clongriffin, Dublin 13",
  "price": 330000,
  "priceRaw": "€330,000",
  "pricePeriod": "sale",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "listingType": "sale",
  "propertyType": "Apartment",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "berRating": "B3",
  "latitude": 53.4032,
  "longitude": -6.1853,
  "eircode": "D13Y9C5",
  "county": "Dublin",
  "images": ["https://media.daft.ie/photo/..."],
  "totalImages": 16,
  "description": "Bright two-bedroom apartment in a modern development...",
  "features": ["Secure parking", "Lift access"],
  "agentName": "Team John Doe",
  "agentBranch": "www.lwk.ie",
  "agentPhone": "01 234 5678",
  "agentLicence": "002307",
  "pricePerSqM": 4714,
  "stampDutyValue": "€3,300",
  "propertySize": "70 m²",
  "facilities": ["Parking", "Wired for Cable Television"],
  "publishDate": "2026-05-15T10:30:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
id / url	Daft listing ID and detail-page URL
title / address	Listing title and full address
price / priceRaw / pricePeriod	Numeric price, raw string, sale/monthly/weekly
bedrooms / bathrooms	Bed and bath counts (numeric + as-shown)
propertyType	House, apartment, townhouse, site, …
berRating / ber	BER energy rating and full BER record
latitude / longitude	GPS coordinates
eircode / county	Irish postcode and county
images / totalImages	All photo URLs and count
description / features	Full description and feature list (detail pages)
agentName / agentBranch / agentPhone / agentLicence	Estate-agent lead data
pricePerSqM / stampDutyValue / propertySize	Price per m², stamp duty, size string
facilities	Amenity list (detail pages)
publishDate / scrapedAt	Listing date and scrape timestamp

How much does it cost to scrape Daft.ie?

This Actor uses direct HTTP requests to Daft's internal JSON API — no browser — so it's very cheap: roughly 0.5–1 compute unit per 1,000 listings (~$0.01–0.05 at standard Apify pricing). Enabling detail pages roughly doubles the request count. Free Apify users get a capped preview of 10 listings per run.

Tips & advanced options

• Use a residential proxy — set proxy to Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group (the default). Daft.ie sits behind Cloudflare and residential IPs have the highest success rate. If you get 403s on a datacenter group, switch to residential. The Actor automatically retries blocked requests on a fresh proxy IP.
• Disable includeDetails for fast, cheap bulk runs when you only need price/beds/BER/agent — descriptions and phones are only added by detail pages.
• Schedule daily runs to track new listings and price changes; diff datasets to detect reductions.
• Combine counties by running multiple searches (or multiple runs) and merging datasets.

FAQ, disclaimers & support

Is scraping Daft.ie legal? This Actor only collects publicly visible listing data. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Daft.ie's terms of service and applicable laws (including GDPR) — especially how you use agent contact details.

Known limitations: Daft.ie is Cloudflare-protected; if a run hits a challenge wall, retry with a residential proxy group. New-home developments are expanded into individual units where Daft exposes them. Commercial and sharing sections are not covered yet.

Found a bug or want a custom field? Open an issue on the Actor page — or ask for a custom solution tailored to your pipeline.