Daft.ie Scraper

Scrape real estate listings from Daft.ie — Ireland's largest and most popular property portal. No login or cookies required.

How to scrape Daft.ie data

This actor uses Daft.ie's internal API to extract structured property listings at scale. Simply enter a location (like "Dublin" or "Cork"), choose whether you want sales, rentals, or sharing listings, and the actor returns clean JSON data ready for analysis.

It works for all Irish counties and major cities, returning prices, addresses, BER energy ratings, GPS coordinates, bedroom/bathroom counts, floor area, photos, and estate agent information.

Why use this actor?

• Real estate investors tracking Irish property prices and market trends
• Proptech companies building Irish property databases or comparison tools
• Market researchers analyzing asking prices, supply, and demand by region
• Relocation services compiling rental availability for clients moving to Ireland
• Data journalists covering the Irish housing market

Features

• Searches all of Ireland: every county and major city
• Supports sale, rent, and sharing listing types
• Filters by property type, price range, and minimum bedrooms
• Returns GPS coordinates for map-based analysis
• Includes BER (Building Energy Rating) for energy efficiency analysis
• Extracts agent/agency information for lead generation
• Fast API-based extraction (no browser needed)
• Handles pagination automatically
• Built-in output validation and error detection

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Dublin	Location to search (county or city name)
listingType	String	No	sale	sale, rent, or sharing
propertyType	String	No	all	Property type filter (houses, apartments, studios, etc.)
minPrice	Integer	No	—	Minimum price in EUR
maxPrice	Integer	No	—	Maximum price in EUR
minBeds	Integer	No	—	Minimum number of bedrooms
maxResults	Integer	No	100	Maximum number of listings to return
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	IE residential	Proxy settings

Supported locations

You can search by county name (Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Kerry, Mayo, Waterford, Wicklow, Meath, Kildare, Tipperary, Donegal, Clare, Kilkenny, Louth, and all other Irish counties) or by city (Dublin City Centre, Cork City, Galway City, Limerick City).

Supported property types

all, houses, apartments, studios, duplexes, bungalows, detached, semi-detached, terraced, townhouses, sites

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Type	Example
title	String	"3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Riverside Drive, Dublin 14"
price	Number	475000
currency	String	"EUR"
listingType	String	"sale"
propertyType	String	"houses"
address	String	"3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Riverside Drive, Dublin 14"
city	String	"Dublin"
county	String	"Dublin"
eircode	String	null
latitude	Number	53.2951
longitude	Number	-6.2622
bedrooms	Number	3
bathrooms	Number	2
surface	Number	110
berRating	String	"C1"
imageUrl	String	Primary listing photo URL
imageUrls	Array	All listing photo URLs
description	String	null (not in search API)
agencyName	String	"Sherry FitzGerald"
agencyUrl	String	Agent profile URL
publishedDate	String	"2026-05-15T10:30:00.000Z"
url	String	Full listing URL on Daft.ie
scrapedAt	String	"2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z"

Example output

{
    "title": "3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Riverside Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14",
    "price": 475000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "listingType": "sale",
    "propertyType": "houses",
    "address": "3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Riverside Drive, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14",
    "city": "Dublin",
    "county": "Dublin",
    "eircode": null,
    "latitude": 53.2951,
    "longitude": -6.2622,
    "bedrooms": 3,
    "bathrooms": 2,
    "surface": 110,
    "berRating": "C1",
    "imageUrl": "https://media.daft.ie/photo/12345.jpg",
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://media.daft.ie/photo/12345.jpg",
        "https://media.daft.ie/photo/12346.jpg"
    ],
    "description": null,
    "agencyName": "Sherry FitzGerald",
    "agencyUrl": "https://www.daft.ie/estate-agent/12345/",
    "publishedDate": "2026-05-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "url": "https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-riverside-drive-rathfarnham-dublin-14/12345",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost estimate

This actor uses direct HTTP requests to Daft.ie's API (no browser needed), making it very efficient. Expect approximately 0.5-1 compute unit per 1,000 results. At standard Apify pricing, that's roughly $0.01-0.05 per 1,000 listings.

Limitations

• Location search maps common names to Daft.ie's internal IDs. If your specific area is not recognized, try the county name instead.
• The description field is not available in search results (only on individual listing pages). This keeps the actor fast and cost-effective.
• Eircode (Irish postal code) is not consistently provided by Daft.ie in search results.
• Price is extracted as a number; for rentals, this is the monthly asking rent (not weekly).
• Daft.ie may rate-limit aggressive scraping. The actor includes built-in delays and retry logic.

Use cases

• Price tracking — monitor asking prices across Irish counties and property types over time.
• Rental yield analysis — combine sale and rent data to calculate gross rental yields by area.
• Supply monitoring — track how many new listings appear each week in target locations.
• Agency intelligence — analyze which agents are most active in specific areas.
• Energy efficiency research — use BER ratings to study the energy profile of Irish housing stock.
• Geographic analysis — use GPS coordinates to map listings and identify pricing patterns.

Support

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