# Idealista API Scraper (`rl1987/idealista-api-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Idealista real-estate listings (ES/IT/PT/FR) directly from the Idealista mobile API — price, size, rooms, location, coordinates, property type, URL and the seller/agency CONTACT (commercial name + phone number).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rl1987/idealista-api-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [R.L.](https://apify.com/rl1987) (community)
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## Pricing

Pay per event + usage

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Idealista Property Scraper – Homes for Sale & Rent 🏠

Scrape **real-estate listings from Idealista** — the leading property portal in **Spain, Italy and
Portugal** — as clean, structured data. For any city, area or neighbourhood this **Idealista
scraper** returns every listing with its **price, size, rooms, address, geolocation, photos and
listing URL**, plus price-drop history and advertiser info. It talks directly to Idealista's private
mobile API (reversed from the Idealista Android app) and **authenticates itself**, so there's **no
Idealista account, no login, and no API key** — just enter a location and run.

Perfect for building property-market datasets, price-analytics tools, real-estate lead lists,
investment research and comparables — get **Idealista listing data** in seconds instead of
maintaining a fragile browser scraper.

### What you can scrape

- 🏠 **Property listings** — every home for sale or rent in an area: price, €/m², size, rooms,
  bathrooms, floor, lift, address, district, municipality, province, latitude/longitude.
- 📉 **Price history** — former price and price-drop percentage where a listing has been reduced.
- 🖼️ **Photos & media** — thumbnail plus the full photo gallery URLs and photo count.
- 🏢 **Advertiser** — agency / private-seller name and contact phone where published.
- 📝 **Full detail (optional)** — the complete description, features and extended data per listing.
- 🗺️ **Location codes (FREE)** — look up Idealista's hierarchical location codes for any place name
  (Provincia → Municipio → Distrito → Barrio), each with its listing count, so you can target a
  search precisely via `locationIds`. This mode is **free** — no per-row charge.

### Key features

| Feature | Details |
|--------|---------|
| **Data source** | Idealista mobile API — the same feed the Idealista app uses |
| **Markets** | 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| **Auth** | **None** — self-authenticating, no account, no cookies, no API key |
| **Search by** | Place name (auto-resolved), coordinates + radius, or raw location IDs |
| **Filters** | Sale/rent, property type, price, size, bedrooms, free text |
| **Export** | JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via the Apify API |

### Popular use cases

- **Real-estate market analytics** — build datasets of asking prices, €/m² and inventory by area over time.
- **Investment & comparables research** — pull all listings in a district to value a property against the market.
- **Lead generation** — collect for-sale-by-agency and private listings with contact details.
- **Price-drop monitoring** — track reductions across an area to spot motivated sellers.
- **Property-portal & aggregator feeds** — power a search widget or a "new listings" alert.

### Input

Set `mode` to `search` (default, scrapes listings) or `locations` (free — look up location codes).

**Location codes (free)** — get the code tree/list for a place name, then reuse the `location_id`
values in a search:

```json
{ "mode": "locations", "country": "es", "location": "Madrid" }
```

**Search** by a plain place name (resolved via Idealista's own location search):

```json
{
  "country": "es",
  "operation": "sale",
  "location": "Madrid",
  "propertyType": "homes",
  "priceMax": 500000,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

| Field | Notes |
|-------|-------|
| `country` | Market: `es` (Spain), `it` (Italy), `pt` (Portugal) |
| `operation` | `sale` or `rent` |
| `location` | A place name — city, area or neighbourhood (e.g. `Madrid`, `Malasaña`) |
| `locationIds` | Advanced: Idealista `locationId`s to search directly |
| `center` | Radius search around a coordinate, e.g. `40.4168,-3.7038` |
| `propertyType` | `homes`, `flats`, `houses`, `premises`, `offices`, `garages`, `lands`, … |
| `priceMin` / `priceMax` / `sizeMin` / `sizeMax` / `bedrooms` | Optional filters |
| `includeDetails` | Fetch each listing's full detail page (billed separately) |
| `maxItems` | Cap rows (`0` = all pages) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Apify Proxy (default) — recommended |

### Output

One clean row per listing — export as JSON, CSV or Excel:

```json
{
  "id": "106542145",
  "url": "https://www.idealista.com/inmueble/106542145/",
  "operation": "sale",
  "property_type": "flat",
  "price": 1850000,
  "currency": "€",
  "price_by_area": 14800,
  "former_price": 1950000,
  "price_drop_pct": 5,
  "size_m2": 125,
  "rooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "floor": "5",
  "has_lift": true,
  "address": "Calle de Velázquez",
  "neighborhood": "Recoletos",
  "district": "Barrio de Salamanca",
  "municipality": "Madrid",
  "province": "Madrid",
  "latitude": 40.4256,
  "longitude": -3.6844,
  "num_photos": 30,
  "photos": ["https://img.idealista.com/…"],
  "advertiser": "Example Real Estate",
  "phone": "+34..."
}
```

### Why this Idealista scraper

- **No account, no cookies, no API key** — it authenticates itself against the mobile API.
- **Search the way a human does** — type a place name and it resolves the location for you.
- **Rich, structured rows** — price, €/m², price drops, geo, photos and advertiser, ready for analysis.
- **All three markets** — Spain, Italy and Portugal from one actor.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event, so you only pay for the data you pull:

- **$0.001 per listing**
- $0.001 per listing when full **detail** enrichment is enabled (`includeDetails`)
- **Location codes (`mode: locations`) are free** — no per-row charge

### FAQ

**Do I need an Idealista account or API key?**
No. The actor authenticates itself against Idealista's mobile API — there's nothing to sign up for.

**Which countries are covered?**
Spain, Italy and Portugal — set `country` to `es`, `it` or `pt`.

**Can I search by neighbourhood, not just city?**
Yes — any place name Idealista recognises is resolved automatically, or search around a coordinate
with `center`.

**Can I export to CSV or Excel?**
Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or straight from the Apify API and dataset.

### Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool and is **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Idealista**.
It returns read-only public listing data (no accounts, no messaging). All trademarks belong to their
respective owners; use the scraped data responsibly and in line with applicable terms and laws.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

'Search listings' scrapes properties (billed). 'Location codes (free)' looks up Idealista location codes for a place name — a free tree/list you can feed back into 'Location IDs'.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Idealista market to search.

## `operation` (type: `string`):

Buy or rent.

## `location` (type: `string`):

A city, area or neighbourhood name (resolved via Idealista's own location search), e.g. "Madrid", "Barcelona", "Malasaña".

## `locationIds` (type: `array`):

Idealista locationId(s) to search directly (alternative to a place name).

## `center` (type: `string`):

Search around a coordinate, e.g. "40.4168,-3.7038".

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

Type of property.

## `priceMin` (type: `integer`):

Minimum price.

## `priceMax` (type: `integer`):

Maximum price.

## `sizeMin` (type: `integer`):

Minimum floor area in m².

## `sizeMax` (type: `integer`):

Maximum floor area in m².

## `bedrooms` (type: `integer`):

Minimum number of bedrooms.

## `freeText` (type: `string`):

Free-text keyword filter.

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

Fetch each listing's detail endpoint (one extra request each) for the full description, features and price history. Billed separately.

## `detailConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many listing-detail requests to run in parallel when 'Include full detail' is on (1–16). Higher is faster but heavier on the target and proxy.

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

Cap the number of listings returned (0 = all pages).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Route requests through a proxy (recommended). Defaults to Apify Proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "country": "es",
  "operation": "sale",
  "location": "Madrid",
  "locationIds": [],
  "propertyType": "homes",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "detailConcurrency": 8,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "location": "Madrid",
    "center": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rl1987/idealista-api-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 = {
    "location": "Madrid",
    "center": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rl1987/idealista-api-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 '{
  "location": "Madrid",
  "center": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call rl1987/idealista-api-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rl1987/idealista-api-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/2FYdtW28XSNFduRct/builds/palOi33gLBviBTFzX/openapi.json