🇮🇪 Daft.ie Property Scraper | Ireland Real Estate

What does Daft.ie Property Scraper do?

Daft.ie Property Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts residential and commercial property listings for sale and rent from Daft.ie (daft.ie)—Ireland's leading real estate portal. It captures asking prices in Euros (priceFormatted), numeric prices (price), property titles (title), bedrooms, bathrooms, interior floor surface in square meters (areaSqm), full postal addresses (address), listing photo URLs (imageUrl), and direct canonical links (url).

Whether you are tracking house and apartment prices across Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, or Waterford, conducting rental yield feasibility studies for Irish residential investments, sourcing below-market properties, or aggregating multi-portal European property inventory, this Actor delivers structured, live data in seconds with zero manual proxy configuration.

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🛡️ Zero Proxy Configuration Required: Irish residential proxy routing and anti-bot handling are managed automatically on the backend — just paste your Daft.ie search URLs and click Start.

What data can you extract with Daft.ie Property Scraper?

💶 Price & Currency — formatted priceFormatted (e.g., EUR 528000), numeric price, and currency (EUR)
🏠 Property Title & Identifiers — property headline title, unique listing id, listing_id, and property_id
📍 Address & Location — full listing address, country (IE), portalName (Daft.ie Ireland), and portal identifier
🛏️ Rooms & Floor Surface — room counts including bedrooms, bathrooms, and interior floor area in areaSqm (m²)
🖼️ Media & Photos — primary property photo link in imageUrl
⏱️ Telemetry & Timestamps — real-time extraction timestamp scrapedAt in ISO 8601 format
🔗 Canonical Links — direct property link url and initial search query sourceUrl

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Why scrape real estate listings from Daft.ie?

💪 Benchmark Irish Real Estate by County — monitor asking prices, price adjustments, and market inventory across County Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kildare, and Meath
🕵️ Calculate Instant Rental Yields & Valuations — combine asking prices with local rents to identify high-yielding buy-to-let properties in major Irish student and tech hubs
✨ Standardized European Property Dataset — merge Daft.ie records directly with UK and European property datasets using normalized field schemas
👍 Seamless Search Filter Compatibility — apply Daft.ie filters for sale or rent, property types (Houses, Apartments, Sites), and price brackets, and paste the URL directly into the Actor
📩 Real-Time Dataset Streaming — listings stream immediately to your Apify dataset as they are fetched, ready for live export to Google Sheets, BigQuery, Airtable, Make, or n8n

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How do I use Daft.ie Property Scraper?

Daft.ie Property Scraper is built for fast, zero-configuration operation in Apify Console:

1. Click Try for free on the Actor page to open Apify Console.
2. Search on daft.ie, apply any filters (for sale, to rent, location, price min/max, bedrooms), and copy the search result URL from your browser.
3. Paste one or more search URLs into Start URLs (startUrls) (for example: https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin).
4. Set Max Results (maxItems) to specify the maximum number of listings to collect.
5. Click Start and watch structured property records stream into the dataset log in real time.
6. Download your dataset from the Output or Dataset tab in JSON, CSV, Excel (.xlsx), or HTML table format.

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Input

Daft.ie Property Scraper accepts a clean 2-parameter JSON configuration. Click on the Input tab for the interactive form.

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

📍 location — search location by Irish county, city, or area (e.g. Dublin, Cork, Galway). When provided, startUrls is optional
🌐 Start URLs (startUrls) — one or more daft.ie search result URLs or property listing URLs
🔢 Max Results (maxItems) — maximum number of property listings to collect per run (default: 40; free accounts can collect up to 40 items per run, while paid Apify plans support unlimited bulk runs)

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Output sample

Results stream in real time into your default Apify Dataset. Below is an excerpt of a real record extracted from daft.ie:

[
  {
    "id": "6701323",
    "listing_id": "6701323",
    "property_id": "6701323",
    "title": "12 Castleland Park Avenue, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, K32 A253",
    "price": 528000.0,
    "priceFormatted": "EUR 528000",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "bedrooms": 3,
    "bathrooms": 2,
    "areaSqm": 115.0,
    "address": "12 Castleland Park Avenue, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, K32 A253",
    "imageUrl": "https://media.daft.ie/listing/6701323/main.jpg",
    "portal": "daft-ie-scraper",
    "portalName": "Daft.ie Ireland",
    "country": "IE",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T18:49:40.738Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin",
    "url": "https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin#6701323"
  }
]

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How much does it cost to scrape Daft.ie?

This Actor uses transparent Pay-Per-Event (Pay-Per-Result) pricing with a $0.00 Actor run start fee:

🆓 Free Plan — $5.00 / 1,000 listings ($0.00500 per result, up to 40 results per run)
🥉 Starter (Bronze) Plan — $1.35 / 1,000 listings ($0.00135 per result, unlimited results)
🥈 Scale (Silver) Plan — $0.95 / 1,000 listings ($0.00095 per result, unlimited results)
🥇 Business+ (Gold) Plan — $0.75 / 1,000 listings ($0.00075 per result, unlimited results)

With the monthly free credit included on Apify Free plans, you can extract up to 1,000 Daft.ie property listings every month at zero cost.

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💡 Predictable, All-Inclusive Pay-Per-Event Pricing: There is a $0.00 run start fee and no separate proxy configuration required. You only pay the flat per-result rate above for data successfully delivered to your dataset — works out of the box on both Free and Paid Apify plans.

How many listings can you scrape with Daft.ie Property Scraper?

Daft.ie Property Scraper supports city-wide, county-wide, and national harvesting across Ireland:

• Partition Large Metropolitan Counties: When collecting large volumes across County Dublin, Cork, or Galway, supply targeted district or postal code URLs (such as Dublin 2, Dublin 4, Dublin 6) in startUrls.
• Target Specific Property Portfolios: Use Daft.ie's native filter bar to filter by property category (New Homes, Houses, Apartments, Sites) or transaction type (For Sale vs. To Rent), and paste the resulting URL into startUrls.
• Exact Volume Limits: Use maxItems to cap each run to the exact volume needed for your valuation pipeline or automated alert trigger.

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Want to scrape other European & Global Real Estate Portals?

Combine this Actor with our other published European and global property scrapers:

🇬🇧 Rightmove UK Property Scraper — scrape UK property listings, GBP asking prices, and floor plans across London and Manchester (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇪🇸 Idealista Property Scraper — extract Spanish residential and commercial property listings, EUR prices, m², and rooms (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇫🇷 PAP.fr France FSBO Property Scraper — scrape direct private-owner (Particulier à Particulier) property sales and rentals across France (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇫🇷 MeilleursAgents France Property Scraper — scrape French property listings and price-per-m² valuation benchmarks (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇫🇷 BellesDemeures Luxury Property Scraper — extract high-end European villas, châteaux, alpine chalets, and luxury estates (From $0.75 / 1K)

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Integrations and Daft.ie Property Scraper

Daft.ie Property Scraper connects with any cloud data pipeline or BI tool through Apify integrations:

• No-Code Automation: Trigger runs and route listings via Make, Zapier, n8n, Clay, or Pipedream.
• Spreadsheets & Warehouses: Sync property inventory directly into Google Sheets, Airtable, BigQuery, Snowflake, or PostgreSQL.
• Instant Webhooks: Configure webhooks to alert your investment team when new deals appear in your target Irish counties.

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Using Daft.ie Property Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to launch runs, monitor execution status, and stream dataset items in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

• Node.js: Install the apify-client NPM package to call misterkhan/daft-ie-scraper.
• Python: Install the apify-client PyPI package to pull datasets directly into pandas or analytics pipelines.
• AI Agents & MCP: Connect this Actor to Claude, Cursor, or custom AI agents via the Apify MCP Server (https://mcp.apify.com).

Check out the Apify API reference docs or click on the API tab for ready-to-run code snippets.

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Frequently asked questions about Daft.ie Property Scraper

🛡️ Do I need to configure proxies?
No — everything works out of the box with zero setup. Regional routing, session management, and anti-blocking are handled automatically on the backend so you do not need to configure custom proxy settings.

🏙️ Can I scrape both for-sale and to-rent listings on daft.ie?
Yes. Paste any property-for-sale (/property-for-sale/) or property-to-rent (/property-to-rent/) search URL from daft.ie into startUrls.

🇮🇪 Which locations are supported?
All 26 counties across the Republic of Ireland are supported, including Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford, Kildare, and Wicklow.

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Is it legal to scrape Daft.ie data?

Our scrapers extract publicly available real estate listing metadata displayed on daft.ie. They do not bypass authenticated account portals or harvest private personal data. Always ensure your use of extracted data complies with local and international regulations and copyright frameworks. Read Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping to learn more.

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Your feedback

We keep this Actor under active maintenance. If a run finishes successfully but returns fewer results than you expected, hangs, or errors — please open an Issue before posting a public review so we can diagnose and fix it for you.

🛠️ How to report — Use the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console. Include the run ID, your input JSON, and what you expected vs. what you got.
⏱️ Response time — We aim to reply within 24 hours on business days.
⭐ Reviews — Happy with the results? A short positive review helps other users find a reliable scraper. Ran into a problem? Open an Issue first — we’ll work with you to resolve it before you leave a rating.