Daft.ie Property Scraper

Daft.ie Property Scraper collects property listings from Daft.ie and turns them into structured data for Irish market research, price monitoring, and lead generation. Provide a section such as residential for sale, a search area such as Dublin, or a Daft search URL, then export title, price, beds, BER, agent, and listing path to JSON, CSV, or Excel. Use it to watch sales and rentals, compare areas, and schedule recurring collection. Pricing is $1.00 per 1,000 listings.

What can you automate with Daft.ie Property Scraper?

• Build Irish listing databases — Collect residential, rental, commercial, sharing, student, and new-home sections.
• Compare prices and BER — Filter by sale or rent price, bedrooms, floor area, and BER band.
• Watch one area — Set searchArea such as dublin-city or paste a filtered Daft search URL.
• Track new ads — Use addedSince and sort by most recently published.
• Schedule recurring collection — Run daily or weekly and push new listings into Sheets, a CRM, or an alert workflow.

Who is this scraper for?

Team	Workflow
Estate agents and researchers	Monitor asking prices, BER, and stock in a county or postcode.
Investors	Compare sale and rental inventory with beds, baths, and facilities.
Lead-generation teams	Collect agent names, phones, and licence numbers from listing cards.
Proptech products	Feed structured Daft listings into dashboards and alerts.

What data can you collect from Daft.ie?

Data group	Example fields	How it helps
Listing identity	id, title, seoFriendlyPath, category	Identify each ad and deduplicate with id.
Commercial	price, abbreviatedPrice, propertyType	Compare asking prices across areas.
Property	numBedrooms, numBathrooms, berRating, facilities	Filter by size, energy rating, and amenities.
Agent	sellerName, sellerPhone, sellerBranch, sellerLicenceNumber	See who is listing the property.
Location and media	latitude, longitude, hasVideo, hasVirtualTour	Map listings and flag media-rich ads.

Some agent phone and BER fields are empty when Daft does not publish them. When searchUrls are provided, the manual filters on that run are ignored for those URLs.

How to use Daft.ie Property Scraper

1. Open the Daft.ie Property Scraper on Apify.
2. Choose a section such as Residential For Sale and an area such as dublin-city, or paste Daft search URLs.
3. Set Max items (default 10; 0 means unlimited) and any price, bed, or BER filters.
4. Run the Actor — it writes one dataset row per listing.
5. Export the dataset or connect it to your workflow.

{
    "section": "residential-for-sale",
    "searchArea": "dublin-city",
    "propertyTypes": ["houses"],
    "availability": "published",
    "maxItems": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

Example workflow

Build a weekly Dublin house-for-sale list

1. Schedule a Monday run with section = "residential-for-sale", searchArea = "dublin-city", propertyTypes = ["houses"], and addedSince = "now-7d/d".
2. Keep rows inside your price and bedroom band using price and numBedrooms.
3. Use sellerLicenceNumber and sellerPhone when present to identify the listing agent.
4. Send new records to Google Sheets or a CRM through a webhook after each run.
5. Deduplicate user-side against the stable id field.

The Actor does not merge results across runs — those steps happen in your pipeline.

Automate and integrate your results

• Schedules — Run daily with addedSince = "now-1d/d" for new-ad alerts, or weekly for a market snapshot. Create a separate scheduled task per section and area.
• Webhooks — Push completed runs into Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack, or a CRM.
• Exports and API — Download JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Apify Console, or start a run from the API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scraptivo~daft-ie-scraper/runs?token=YOUR-APIFY-TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "section": "residential-for-sale",
    "searchArea": "dublin-city",
    "maxItems": 20
  }'

Deduplicate user-side with id.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	What it controls
searchUrls	array	No	[]	Daft search-result URLs. When set, manual filters are ignored for those URLs.
section	string	No	residential-for-sale	residential-for-sale, residential-to-rent, commercial-for-sale, commercial-to-rent, sharing, student-accommodation-to-share, new-homes.
searchArea	string	No	""	Location label such as Dublin 8 or dublin-city. Empty searches all Ireland.
searchQuery	string	No	""	Keyword or address (terms).
distanceRadius	string	No	""	_1000 to _20000 metres around the area.
salePriceFrom / salePriceTo	string	No	""	Sale price band.
rentalPriceFrom / rentalPriceTo	string	No	""	Monthly rent band.
numBedsFrom / numBedsTo	string	No	""	Bedroom band.
numBathsFrom / numBathsTo	string	No	""	Bathroom band.
floorSizeFrom / floorSizeTo	integer	No	0	Floor area in m²; 0 means unused.
propertyTypes	array	No	[]	House, apartment, commercial, and land types.
facilities	array	No	[]	Required amenities; all selected must be present.
saleType	string	No	""	auction for auctions only.
berFrom / berTo	string	No	""	BER band from A1 to Exempt.
onlineOffersOnly	boolean	No	false	Only listings that accept online offers.
mediaTypes	array	No	[]	video, virtual-tour.
availability	string	No	published	published or sale-agreed.
addedSince	string	No	""	now-1d/d through now-30d/d.
sortBy	string	No	best-match	best-match, priceAsc, priceDesc, publishDateDesc.
maxItems	integer	No	10	Cap listings; 0 is unlimited.
maxPages	integer	No	0	Cap pages (20 listings each).
maxConcurrency	integer	No	3	Parallel requests (1–10).
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Residential	Apify proxy settings.

maxItems and maxPages stop the run at whichever limit is hit first.

Output example

{
    "id": 6596803,
    "title": "The Grove, Crowe Street, Gort, Co. Galway",
    "price": "€2,000 per month",
    "abbreviatedPrice": "€2,000",
    "numBedrooms": "2 Bed",
    "numBathrooms": "2 Bath",
    "propertyType": "Apartment",
    "category": "Rent",
    "berRating": "B",
    "sellerName": "Quinn Property",
    "sellerPhone": "(065) 6824343",
    "sellerLicenceNumber": "001044",
    "latitude": 53.06983,
    "longitude": -8.820422,
    "seoFriendlyPath": "/for-rent/the-grove-crowe-street-gort-co-galway/6596803"
}

How much does it cost to scrape Daft.ie?

Billing is pay-per-event. A one-time Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run. Each listing is one apify-default-dataset-item event at $1.00 per 1,000 listings.

A 100-listing test costs about $0.10 plus Actor Start. A 1,000-listing run costs about $1.00 plus Actor Start. Apify plan discounts may reduce these prices. Platform compute and proxy usage are billed separately on your Apify plan.

Reliability and responsible use

• Proxy — Residential proxies are the default setting.
• Conditional fields — Agent phone, BER, and some facilities are omitted when Daft does not publish them.
• Public data — The Actor collects publicly visible listing information from Daft.ie.
• Responsible use — Only use the data in ways that comply with Daft.ie's terms of service and applicable law.

Frequently asked questions

Can I scrape Daft sales, rentals, and commercial ads?

Yes. Set section to residential sale or rent, commercial sale or rent, sharing, student accommodation, or new homes. You can also paste a filtered Daft search URL in searchUrls.

Can I schedule Daft.ie Property Scraper to run automatically?

Yes. Open the Scheduler tab in Apify Console. Use addedSince = "now-1d/d" for daily new-ad alerts.

What counts as one result?

One listing written to the dataset is one billable result at $1.00 per 1,000 listings, plus Actor Start.

Why are some fields empty?

BER, agent phone, and some facility lists are empty when Daft does not publish them on that card.

How do I avoid duplicate records?

Within one run, listings are unique by id. Across runs the Actor appends results. When you combine datasets, keep the first row for each id.

Do I need a proxy?

Use Apify residential proxies. If a run returns unusually few listings, confirm that proxyConfiguration uses the RESIDENTIAL group before raising maxConcurrency.

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• Realtor Scraper — collect US property listings.

Support and custom workflows

Need a different field, source, or delivery workflow? Contact Scraptivo at scraptivo@gmail.com. Include the Actor name, sample URL, required fields, and expected volume so we can assess the request.