# Daft.ie Property Scraper — Irish Listings, BER & Agent Leads (`ahmed_jasarevic/daft-ie-property-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Daft.ie (Ireland's #1 property portal) for sale and rent listings: title/address, price, beds/baths, property type, BER rating, agent name/branch/phone, images, coordinates and description. For real-estate investors, market analysts, PropTech startups and agent lead-gen.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ahmed\_jasarevic/daft-ie-property-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ahmed Jasarevic](https://apify.com/ahmed_jasarevic) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

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

### What does Daft.ie Property Scraper do?

This Actor scrapes **[Daft.ie](https://www.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:

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `section` (type: `string`):

Whether to scrape properties for sale or to rent.

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

County to search. 'All Ireland' searches the whole country.

## `propertyType` (type: `string`):

Restrict to a property type. 'any' = all types.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Minimum asking price (sale) or monthly rent (rent).

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Maximum asking price (sale) or monthly rent (rent).

## `minBeds` (type: `integer`):

Minimum number of bedrooms.

## `minBer` (type: `string`):

Only listings with this BER rating or better (A1 = best).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order in which listings are returned.

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

Maximum number of listings to scrape. 0 = unlimited. Free users are capped at 10 listings.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each listing's detail page to enrich the record with the full description, agent phone, PSRA licence and Eircode. Doubles the number of requests.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many detail pages to fetch in parallel.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy with Residential IPs is recommended to avoid blocking.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "section": "sale",
  "county": "all",
  "propertyType": "any",
  "minBer": "any",
  "sort": "publishDateDesc",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ahmed_jasarevic/daft-ie-property-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 = { "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ahmed_jasarevic/daft-ie-property-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 '{
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call ahmed_jasarevic/daft-ie-property-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ahmed_jasarevic/daft-ie-property-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/2eUIgC2NhaFVOEZZQ/builds/ICOKbLUrRv2zI1g0r/openapi.json