Daft.ie Scraper | Irish Property Listings with BER, Geo & Agent Data

The fastest way to pull every listing on Daft.ie — Ireland's biggest property portal — into a clean structured dataset. Per property you get the price, beds, type, BER energy rating, geo coordinates, Eircode, full description, features and the listing agent's profile. Covers for-sale, for-rent, sharing (rooms), new-homes and commercial sections across every Irish county.

No browser. No login. No API key. The actor reads each search and detail page's Next.js __NEXT_DATA__ state directly, so the data is structured, complete and matches exactly what daft.ie renders.

TL;DR — Pick a section + location ("property-for-sale" + "dublin-city"), pick a maxRecords cap, run. Every row is one property with everything joined: price, beds, BER, lat/lon, agent.

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What you get

For each property, one row with:

Field	What
propertyId	Numeric Daft.ie listing id (stable)
daftShortcode	Daft's own short code (shown on the card)
title	Full title / address line as Daft.ie publishes it
category	"Buy" / "Rent" / "Share" / "Commercial"
propertyType	Apartment / House / Studio / Site / …
priceRaw	Original price string ("€450,000" or "From €710 per month")
priceMin, priceMax	Numeric values (€). For range prices both are set; for single prices min == max
priceCurrency	"EUR" (or "GBP" for the rare cross-border listing)
pricePeriod	"month" / "week" / "year" / null (sale)
numBedrooms	Raw label ("3 Bed", "1, 2 & 3 bed", "Studio")
numBedroomsMin, numBedroomsMax	Parsed integer min/max
numBathrooms	Bath count
berRating	Irish Building Energy Rating (A1, A2, A3, B1, … G, EXEMPT)
floorArea	"120 m²" string when published
dateOfConstruction	Year built
address	The full title address
eircode	Irish postcode (D02 RK57, T12 HD21, …) mined from title + URL
city	Parsed city / area
county	Parsed Irish county
country	"Ireland"
latitude, longitude	Geo coordinates from Daft's Point GeoJSON
featuredLevel	FEATURED / etc. (premium tier on the search page)
publishDate, firstPublishDate, lastUpdateDate	ISO dates
description	Full description (when scrapeDescription: true)
features	Array of bullet features (when scrapeDescription: true)
agentName, agentBranch, agentType, agentLicenceNumber, agentLogoUrl	Listing agent profile
premierPartner, showContactForm	Daft.ie agent-tier flags
imageUrl, images, imageCount	First image + up to 12 gallery URLs
subUnitCount	When the listing is an apartment-complex parent, how many sub-units it has
listingUrl	Canonical Daft.ie detail URL
searchSection, searchLocation, searchUrl	Echo of the search you ran
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

The complete schema with types is in dataset_schema.json.

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Why these fields matter

BER (Building Energy Rating) — Ireland's mandatory energy label. Buyers and renters increasingly filter on it; investors track it for value-add deal flow ("buy F-rated, retrofit to B2, resell"). No other property data source surfaces it as a structured column.

Eircode — Ireland's seven-character postcode. Every Eircode pinpoints to a single building, making it perfect for joining with census, demographic and electricity-use datasets.

Latitude / longitude — pulled straight from Daft's own Point geometry. Drop the dataset into Mapbox / Tableau / Looker for instant heat-maps.

Agent profile — the agentId, agentName, agentBranch, agentLicenceNumber plus premierPartner flag let you build a competitive map of who lists what in which area. Estate agencies use this to monitor competitors; PropTech vendors use it for sales pipeline.

featuredLevel / premierPartner — Daft.ie's premium ad tier signal. Useful for marketers and agencies to size the paid-ad budget of the market.

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Use cases

Real-estate agencies (competitive intel)

• Snapshot the entire dublin-city property-for-sale market daily — track which agents are getting new instructions, what's selling, what's lingering.
• Build a heat-map of new listings per area to time outreach to landlords.

PropTech / data analytics

• BER-rated rental yield analysis — pair priceMin with floorArea for €/m² and stratify by berRating for a real-time energy-vs-price index.
• Affordability dashboards — pull all of Ireland by county weekly, model median asking price by bedroom count.

Mortgage / lending teams

• Pre-approval intelligence — surface fresh listings in your target customer's price band the moment they're posted.

International buyers (US / UK)

• Save hours of manual browsing — filter Daft via this actor for your exact priceFrom/priceTo/minBeds and pipe to Notion, Sheets or your buyer's CRM.

Estate-agent SaaS / CRM vendors

• Map every active agent in Ireland (agentName + agentBranch + agentLicenceNumber) — the single best B2B prospecting list for selling to estate agents.

Investment funds / institutional rental

• Track the new-build BTR pipeline in real time via the new-homes-for-sale section + the prs.subUnits count we surface.

Compliance / market research

• Run the same query weekly and dataset-diff to compute time-on-market, price reductions and supply by area.

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Inputs (full list)

Definitions live in input_schema.json; here's the human summary.

• section (select) — property-for-sale (default), property-for-rent, sharing, new-homes-for-sale, commercial-properties-for-sale, commercial-properties-for-rent.
• location (string) — Daft.ie location slug. Examples: dublin-city, cork, galway, limerick, kildare, wicklow, dun-laoghaire-rathdown. Leave empty for all-Ireland.
• startUrls (array) — Paste Daft.ie search URLs directly. Overrides section / location / filters.
• priceFrom, priceTo (integer) — Optional price band (€). For rent these are per-month.
• minBeds (integer) — Minimum bedroom count.
• scrapeDescription (boolean) — Visit each detail page for full description + features + last-update date. The base listing already carries title, price, beds, BER, geo, agent — disable detail visit for 5× faster runs.
• maxRecords (integer) — Hard cap on properties returned. Default 100.
• maxPages (integer) — Hard cap on pagination. 0 = unlimited (bounded by maxRecords).
• requestDelay (integer) — Milliseconds between page fetches. Default 1000.
• proxyConfiguration (proxy) — Apify Proxy. Defaults to RESIDENTIAL + country IE — datacenter triggers Daft.ie's "Security Check" interstitial within a few requests.

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Example inputs

1. Dublin sale listings, default cap

{
  "section": "property-for-sale",
  "location": "dublin-city",
  "maxRecords": 100
}

2. Cork rentals under €2,000/month, ≥2 beds, fast list-only

{
  "section": "property-for-rent",
  "location": "cork",
  "priceTo": 2000,
  "minBeds": 2,
  "scrapeDescription": false,
  "maxRecords": 250
}

3. Galway room-shares with full descriptions

{
  "section": "sharing",
  "location": "galway-city",
  "scrapeDescription": true,
  "maxRecords": 60
}

4. Direct Daft.ie URL paste

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin-city-centre?price=300000-500000&numBeds_from=2" }
  ],
  "maxRecords": 300
}

5. All-Ireland new-homes pipeline (deep crawl)

{
  "section": "new-homes-for-sale",
  "location": "ireland",
  "scrapeDescription": true,
  "maxRecords": 1000,
  "maxPages": 60,
  "requestDelay": 1500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "IE"
  }
}

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Output sample

{
  "propertyId": "6561825",
  "daftShortcode": "96561825",
  "title": "Baile Adaim, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork",
  "category": "Rent",
  "propertyType": "Private Rental Sector",
  "priceRaw": "From €710 per month",
  "priceMin": 710,
  "priceMax": 710,
  "priceCurrency": "EUR",
  "pricePeriod": "month",
  "numBedrooms": "1, 2 & 3 bed",
  "numBedroomsMin": 1,
  "numBedroomsMax": 3,
  "numBathrooms": null,
  "berRating": "A2",
  "floorArea": null,
  "dateOfConstruction": null,
  "address": "Baile Adaim, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork",
  "eircode": null,
  "city": "Baile Adaim",
  "county": "Cork",
  "country": "Ireland",
  "latitude": 51.91742,
  "longitude": -8.24198,
  "featuredLevel": "FEATURED",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-05",
  "firstPublishDate": null,
  "lastUpdateDate": null,
  "agentId": "13053",
  "agentName": "Paul Barry",
  "agentBranch": "Cork County Council",
  "agentType": "UNBRANDED_AGENT",
  "agentLicenceNumber": "Cork County Council",
  "agentLogoUrl": "https://media.daft.ie/…",
  "premierPartner": false,
  "showContactForm": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://media.daft.ie/…",
  "imageCount": 8,
  "subUnitCount": 3,
  "listingUrl": "https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/baile-adaim-carrigtwohill-co-cork-…/6561825",
  "searchSection": "property-for-rent",
  "searchLocation": "cork",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-31T18:57:13.000Z"
}

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Cost & throughput

Pay-per-event pricing — small apify-actor-start fee plus a per-result charge. The exact tier is on the actor's Apify Store page.

Default throughput (scrapeDescription: false, requestDelay: 1000):

• ~20 listings per page × ~1.5 s per page = ~13 listings / second.
• 1,000 listings ≈ 80 seconds.
• With scrapeDescription: true add ~1 s/listing for the detail fetch.

Daft.ie caps pagination at ~167 pages × 20 listings = ~3,300 results per query. To go deeper, split by county, then by city / area, then by price band.

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How it works (under the hood)

1. Search URL build — https://www.daft.ie/{section}/{location}?page=N&priceFrom=…&numBeds_from=….
2. __NEXT_DATA__ parse — Daft.ie ships its entire React state inside <script id="__NEXT_DATA__">. We pull props.pageProps.listings (per-page array of 20 properties), props.pageProps.paging (current page, total pages, total results) and props.pageProps.queryFilters.
3. Field mapping — listing.title → title, listing.price → priceRaw + parsed priceMin/priceMax/priceCurrency/pricePeriod, listing.ber.rating → berRating, listing.point.coordinates → lat/lon, listing.seller → agent fields, listing.seoFriendlyPath → listingUrl.
4. Eircode mining — Irish postcode regex ([ADEFHKNPRTVWXY]\d{2} [A-Z0-9]{4}) over title + URL slug + description.
5. Detail enrichment (optional) — for each listing, fetch the detail URL and pull the longer description, features array and lastUpdateDate from its own __NEXT_DATA__ block.
6. Dedup — by numeric propertyId. The same listing surfacing on overlapping pages is only emitted once.
7. Backoff — retries on 403 / 429 / "Security Check" interstitial with a fresh proxy session per attempt.

Built on got-scraping + cheerio — no Puppeteer, no Playwright, runs in 512 MB.

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Tips & troubleshooting

Q: I'm getting No properties scraped — Daft.ie blocked the discovery page. A: Almost certainly the proxy group is wrong. Daft.ie shows a "Security Check" challenge to datacenter IPs within a few requests; switch the proxy group to RESIDENTIAL and set country to IE. UK / US residential IPs sometimes also trigger the check — IE residential is the most reliable.

Q: My run says No properties matched your filters. A: Your filter is too narrow. Drop priceTo, lower minBeds, broaden the location to the county slug (e.g. cork instead of cork-city-centre).

Q: Why is berRating null on so many rentals? A: Landlords aren't legally required to publish BER on every rental ad until certified. The actor reads what Daft.ie publishes — when the rating is missing on the source page, the field stays null. (Sale listings carry BER far more reliably.)

Q: eircode is empty most of the time. A: Eircode is included in the title / URL slug only when the seller chose to publish it. Set scrapeDescription: true and we also mine the full description text — that recovers Eircode for an additional ~15-20% of listings.

Q: I want sub-units inside apartment-complex listings as separate rows. A: The parent listing's subUnitCount flags how many sub-units it has. v1 emits one row per parent listing with the sub-units summary; ping the Store page if you want a mode: per-subUnit flag added.

Q: Why does pagination stop earlier than the total pages count? A: Daft.ie caps deep pagination around page 167 (~3,300 results) regardless of true total. To go further, split the query (e.g. by priceFrom/priceTo bands).

Q: How fresh is the data? A: Real-time. Each run pulls Daft.ie's live __NEXT_DATA__; there is no cache layer in the actor.

Q: Can I scrape just one specific listing? A: Yes — drop the listing's detail URL into startUrls. The actor recognises detail URLs and emits one row.

Q: Can I run this on a schedule? A: Yes — Apify Schedules picks it up natively. Daily / hourly cron is fine; lower maxRecords to keep cost predictable.

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How this compares

There's exactly one other Daft.ie scraper on the Apify Store (about 350 runs / month). Here's how this one positions:

• Multi-section — sale, rent, sharing, new-homes, commercial sale, commercial rent. The competitor covers sale + rent only.
• BER rating + Eircode + geo lat/lon as structured columns — the high-signal Irish-specific fields the alternative doesn't surface.
• Agent profile in every row — agentId, agentName, agentBranch, agentLicenceNumber. Build the agent-leads list for free as a side-effect of every property run.
• Cloudflare / "Security Check" handling baked in — proxy prefill is RESIDENTIAL + IE because that's what survives Daft.ie's anti-bot for sustained runs.
• Healthy run semantics — empty filter results exit SUCCEEDED with an actionable status message rather than FAILED.

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Legal & ethical use

This actor reads public, indexable Daft.ie HTML — the same pages Google sees. Use responsibly:

• Republishing the data as a competing portal infringes Daft.ie's Terms; build derived products (analytics, dashboards, alerts) instead.
• Contacting agents en-masse without an established business relationship needs a lawful basis under the GDPR (legitimate interest works for B2B if the topic is relevant and you respect opt-outs).
• The actor never bypasses logins, paywalls or robots.txt-disallowed paths.

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Pricing-tier playbooks (when you graduate from one-off runs)

If you're scheduling Daft.ie runs daily / weekly for a real workflow, these are the patterns that survive at scale:

1. County-by-county sweep. Don't try to grab "all of Ireland" in one run — Daft.ie caps pagination ~3,300 results. Run one search per county (dublin-city, cork, galway, limerick, kildare, wicklow, meath, donegal, …) and union the datasets. Daily refresh keeps cost in the cents.
2. Price-band shards. For Dublin sale (> 3,300 results) split by price: <300k, 300-500k, 500-750k, 750k-1m, >1m. Five small runs cover the full market without hitting the pagination cap.
3. Delta scheduling. Run the same query once a day and dedup by propertyId against your warehouse's previous snapshot — new rows = new listings, missing rows = sold / withdrawn. Tracks time-on-market for free.
4. Agent prospecting. Run a single sale-and-rent sweep per county per week; dedup the result by agentId and you've built a refreshed agent list ideal for B2B SaaS targeting Irish estate agents.

Frequently-asked filters

• location — Irish county slugs use the official Daft.ie slug. The most common ones: dublin-city, dublin-county, dun-laoghaire-rathdown, fingal, south-dublin, cork-city, cork-county, galway-city, galway-county, limerick-city, kerry, kildare, meath, wicklow, wexford, donegal, mayo, clare, tipperary, waterford-city. For all-Ireland leave empty or use ireland.
• Direct URL paste — every Daft.ie search-results page works as a startUrls value. Toggle filters in your browser, copy the URL once you're happy, paste in.
• numBeds_from — Daft.ie's own URL parameter; the actor passes it through when you set minBeds. Use startUrls for the more exotic combinations (numBeds_to, dateOfConstruction_from, etc.).

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Changelog

• 1.0 — Initial release. Sections: property-for-sale, property-for-rent, sharing, new-homes-for-sale, commercial sale & rent. __NEXT_DATA__ parser, BER + Eircode + geo + agent extraction. Detail-page enrichment for description + features.

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Roadmap / feature requests

• mode: per-subUnit for apartment-complex parents.
• Historical price-change tracking (compare across runs).
• Agent-list-only mode (one row per agentId, with summary stats).
• Map-bounding-box search input (lat/lon polygon → Daft search URL).
• Saved-search delta mode (emit only listings new vs the previous run).

Drop a comment on the Store page if any of these would unblock you.