Daft.ie Scraper | Irish Property Listings + Agents

Daft.ie Scraper 🇮🇪🏠 — Irish Property Listings, BER, Eircode, Geo & Agent Data

The most complete way to scrape Daft.ie, Ireland's #1 real-estate portal. This Daft.ie scraper extracts every property listing from any daft.ie search into a clean, structured dataset — giving you the asking price (priceMin / priceMax), bedrooms & bathrooms, floor area (m²), BER energy rating (A1–G), Irish Eircode, exact GPS coordinates (latitude / longitude), listing estate agent profile (including PSRA licence number) and high-resolution photo gallery. No login, no coding, no browser tabs.

Bulk export every result to JSON, CSV, Excel, or API with 1,000+ results pagination across all for-sale, for-rent, sharing (rooms), new homes and commercial sections in every Irish county.

Built for Irish estate agents benchmarking competition, PropTech & valuation teams building housing indices, mortgage & lending analysts, property investors sourcing BER retrofit deals, B2B lead generation teams prospecting PSRA-licensed agencies, and relocation / buyer's agents.

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⚡ At a glance

Feature	Details
Target Portal	Daft.ie — Republic of Ireland's primary residential & commercial property marketplace
Sections Supported	property-for-sale, property-for-rent, sharing, new-homes-for-sale, commercial-properties-for-sale, commercial-properties-for-rent
Geographic Coverage	All 26 ROI counties + major cities (dublin, dublin-city, cork, galway, limerick, waterford, kildare, wicklow, meath…) + custom town/district slugs
Core Data Extracted	propertyId, Title/Address, priceRaw + priceMin/priceMax, Bedrooms & Bathrooms, berRating, floorArea (m²/acres), dateOfConstruction, eircode, city, county, GPS (latitude/longitude), Agent Profile (agentId, agentName, agentBranch, agentLicenceNumber), Up to 12 Photos, Optional Full Description & Features
Pagination & Scale	Automatic multi-page traversal (maxPages: 0 = unlimited governed by maxRecords) + multi-area scaling supporting 1,000+ properties per run
Deduplication	100% deduplicated by propertyId (0 duplicates)
Export Formats	Bulk export to JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), HTML, XML, or REST API

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🔎 Why scrape Daft.ie?

Daft.ie is the undisputed centre of the Irish property market — virtually every residential home for sale, apartment to let, student room share, new-build development and commercial unit in Ireland is listed on Daft.ie first. It holds the richest public dataset on Irish housing: asking prices, bedroom counts, Building Energy Ratings (BER), 7-character Eircodes, point geometry coordinates, and the PSRA-licensed estate agency handling each instruction.

However, Daft.ie provides no public bulk-export API. Copying listings manually across dozens of search pages is slow and error-prone, raw seller addresses are inconsistently formatted, and automated scripts using standard datacenter IPs immediately hit Daft.ie's security interstitial.

This Daft.ie scraper (daft-scraper) handles all of that automatically. Select a section and county (or paste any filtered Daft.ie search URL), press Start, and it walks the paginated search results, normalizes Irish addresses into clean city, county and eircode columns, extracts numeric prices and floor areas, deduplicates every record, and delivers an analysis-ready dataset in seconds.

Common reasons teams use this Daft.ie data extractor:

• 📊 Irish housing market & price-per-m² analytics — benchmark asking prices, floorArea (€/m²), bedroom mix and berRating across Dublin postal districts and all 26 counties.
• 🤝 Estate agent B2B lead generation & market-share tracking — extract agentId, agentName, agentBranch, agentType and PSRA agentLicenceNumber on every listing to map agency instruction volume and build B2B prospect lists.
• 🌱 Green-mortgage & BER retrofit investment sourcing — filter for D, E, F, and G BER-rated homes or EXEMPT protected structures that qualify for SEAI retrofit grants and value-add refurbishment.
• 📈 Rental yield & Build-to-Rent (BTR) modeling — compare property-for-rent and sharing monthly rates against property-for-sale capital values by Eircode routing key (D02, D04, D06W, T12, H91).
• 🏦 Mortgage, banking & valuation underwriting — feed live comparable asking prices, construction years (dateOfConstruction) and geo-coordinates into automated valuation models (AVMs).
• ⏱️ Time-on-market & inventory velocity tracking — schedule daily or weekly runs and diff propertyId and priceMin to spot new instructions, price drops, and withdrawn/sold stock.

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✨ What this Daft.ie scraper does

• ✅ All 6 Daft.ie market sections — property-for-sale, property-for-rent, sharing (room shares), new-homes-for-sale, commercial-properties-for-sale, and commercial-properties-for-rent.
• ✅ Point-and-click county & city dropdown — choose All Ireland (nationwide), any of the 26 counties, or major city markets (dublin-city, cork-city, galway-city, limerick-city, waterford-city), or pass any town/district slug in locationCustom (e.g. dublin-2-dublin, blackrock-cork, maynooth-kildare).
• ✅ Unlocked 1,000+ deep pagination — with maxPages: 0 (default), the Actor automatically walks page after page (20 listings per page) up to your maxRecords target, with resilient multi-attempt page retries and automatic county expansion when 500+ or 1,000+ records are requested.
• ✅ Irish address, County & Eircode parser — automatically mines 7-character Irish Eircodes (including Dublin D6W routing keys) from titles and URLs, and splits seller address chains into clean city and county columns.
• ✅ Normalized BER energy ratings & floor areas — standardizes berRating (A1 through G, plus EXEMPT for SI_666 protected structures) and formats floorArea into human-readable "125 m²" or "2 acres".
• ✅ Exact map coordinates — extracts latitude and longitude (WGS84) on ~100% of listings for instant GIS mapping in QGIS, Mapbox, Tableau, or Power BI.
• ✅ Complete estate agent & PSRA profile — every row includes agentId, agentName, agentBranch, agentType, agentLicenceNumber (PSRA licence), agentLogoUrl, and premierPartner.
• ✅ Fast list mode + optional deep description enrichment — list-only mode (scrapeDescription: false, default) captures 40+ fields straight from the search state at high speed; flipping scrapeDescription: true fetches each property's full description, features array, and lastUpdateDate using a parallel worker pool (detailConcurrency).

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🎯 Use cases & B2B intelligence workflows

1. Estate Agency Competitive Intelligence & Instruction Tracking

Residential and commercial agencies across Dublin, Cork, Galway and the Greater Dublin Area (Kildare, Meath, Wicklow, Louth) run scheduled daily scrapes to monitor which competing branches (Sherry FitzGerald, Savills, Lisney, DNG, Hooke & MacDonald, Quillsen) win new instructions, what price brackets they target, and which listings use FEATURED or premierPartner promotion.

2. PropTech, AVM & Economic Research

Economists, housing policy researchers, and PropTech platforms combine priceMin, floorArea, numBedroomsMin, berRating, dateOfConstruction, eircode, and latitude/longitude to build hedonic price indices, energy-efficiency price-premium studies, and commuter-belt affordability heatmaps.

3. Property Investment, PRS & Retrofit Deal Sourcing

Private equity funds, approved housing bodies (AHBs), and value-add investors filter Daft.ie exports to identify high-yielding multi-unit buildings (subUnitCount), low-BER refurbishment candidates (berRating in E1–G), or under-priced family homes per square metre.

4. B2B SaaS, ConTech & Financial Services Lead Generation

Vendors selling CRM software, property photography, BER assessment services, conveyancing, or bridging finance aggregate listings by agentId, agentBranch, and agentLicenceNumber to build a complete, verified directory of active Irish auctioneers and letting agents.

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📥 Input parameters

Select a Section and Location from the dropdowns and click Start — no coding or URLs required. All fields have sensible defaults.

Field	Type	Default	Description
section	string	"property-for-sale"	Market section to scrape: "property-for-sale", "property-for-rent", "sharing", "new-homes-for-sale", "commercial-properties-for-sale", "commercial-properties-for-rent".
location	string	"" (prefill "dublin")	County or city dropdown ("" = All Ireland nationwide, "dublin", "dublin-city", "cork", "cork-city", "galway", "limerick", "kildare", "wicklow", "meath", etc.).
locationCustom	string	""	Optional advanced slug for a specific town, suburb or Dublin postal district (e.g. "dublin-2-dublin", "blackrock-cork", "maynooth-kildare"). Overrides location.
startUrls	array	[]	Optional ready-made Daft.ie search URLs (e.g. https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/cork-city?priceFrom=300000&priceTo=500000&numBeds_from=3). Overrides section, location and filters.
priceFrom	integer	0	Minimum price in EUR (€). For rental sections, this is monthly rent. 0 = no minimum.
priceTo	integer	0	Maximum price in EUR (€). For rental sections, this is monthly rent. 0 = no maximum.
minBeds	integer	0	Minimum number of bedrooms (0 = no filter).
scrapeDescription	boolean	false	When true, fetches each listing's detail data to add full description text, features array, and lastUpdateDate. Keep false (default) for fast, low-cost runs since price, beds, BER, Eircode, geo and agent are already extracted from search pages.
detailConcurrency	integer	5	Number of parallel detail fetches (1–8) when scrapeDescription: true.
maxRecords	integer	100 (prefill 60)	Maximum total properties to collect (0 = unlimited). Supports maxItems alias via API.
maxPages	integer	0	Maximum search pages to walk per search (0 = auto/unlimited governed by maxRecords).
requestDelay	integer	1000	Delay in milliseconds between page requests (300–10000, default 1000).
proxyConfiguration	object	IE Residential	Proxy configuration. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL + country IE, which is required to pass Daft.ie's anti-bot check reliably.

Example input (Dublin family homes for sale)

{
  "section": "property-for-sale",
  "location": "dublin",
  "priceFrom": 300000,
  "priceTo": 650000,
  "minBeds": 3,
  "scrapeDescription": false,
  "maxRecords": 500,
  "maxPages": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "IE"
  }
}

Example input (1,000+ nationwide Irish property harvest)

{
  "section": "property-for-sale",
  "location": "",
  "maxRecords": 1200,
  "maxPages": 0
}

Example input (Cork & Galway rental yield comparison)

{
  "section": "property-for-rent",
  "location": "cork",
  "priceTo": 2500,
  "minBeds": 2,
  "maxRecords": 300
}

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🗺️ Irish Markets, Eircode Keys & Section Reference

Market / County (location)	Key Sub-Areas & Eircode Routing Keys	Primary Sections Scraped
dublin / dublin-city	Dublin 1–24 (D01–D24, D6W), Swords (K67), Malahide (K36), Blackrock (A94), Dun Laoghaire (A96), Balbriggan (K32)	Residential Sales, PRS Rentals, Sharing, New Homes, Commercial
cork / cork-city	Cork City (T12, T23), Ballincollig (P31), Douglas, Midleton (P25), Kinsale (P17), Mallow (P51)	Residential Sales, Student/City Rentals, New Homes, Agricultural/Sites
galway / galway-city	Galway City (H91), Salthill, Oranmore (H91), Athenry (H65), Tuam (H54), Ballinasloe (H53)	Residential Sales, City Rentals, Sharing, Holiday/Coastal Homes
limerick / limerick-city	Limerick City (V94), Castletroy, Dooradoyle, Raheen, Adare (V94), Newcastle West (V42)	Residential Sales, Rentals, Student Sharing, Commercial
kildare / meath / wicklow	Naas (W91), Maynooth (W23), Newbridge (W12), Navan (C15), Ashbourne (A84), Bray (A98), Greystones (A63)	Greater Dublin Commuter Belt New Homes (new-homes-for-sale) & Family Sales

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📤 Output schema & sample data

Each property is saved as a single structured row in the Apify Dataset. Here is a real record from a live property-for-sale / dublin run:

{
  "propertyId": "6701323",
  "daftShortcode": "16701323",
  "title": "12 Castleland Park Avenue, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, K32 A253",
  "category": "Buy",
  "propertyType": "Semi-D",
  "priceRaw": "€528,000",
  "priceMin": 528000,
  "priceMax": 528000,
  "priceCurrency": "EUR",
  "pricePeriod": null,
  "numBedrooms": "4 Bed",
  "numBedroomsMin": 4,
  "numBedroomsMax": 4,
  "numBathrooms": "3 Bath",
  "berRating": "A1",
  "floorArea": "125 m²",
  "dateOfConstruction": "2013",
  "address": "12 Castleland Park Avenue, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, K32 A253",
  "eircode": "K32 A253",
  "city": "Balbriggan",
  "county": "Dublin",
  "country": "Ireland",
  "latitude": 53.599249,
  "longitude": -6.178495,
  "featuredLevel": "FEATURED",
  "publishDate": "2026-11-01",
  "firstPublishDate": null,
  "lastUpdateDate": null,
  "description": null,
  "features": null,
  "agentId": "582",
  "agentName": "Chris White",
  "agentBranch": "Sherry Fitzgerald Cumisky Kelly",
  "agentType": "BRANDED_AGENT",
  "agentLicenceNumber": "002340",
  "agentLogoUrl": "https://media.daft.ie/...",
  "premierPartner": true,
  "showContactForm": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://media.daft.ie/...",
  "images": [
    "https://media.daft.ie/...",
    "https://media.daft.ie/..."
  ],
  "imageCount": 9,
  "subUnitCount": null,
  "listingUrl": "https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/12-castleland-park-avenue-balbriggan-co-dublin/6701323",
  "searchSection": "property-for-sale",
  "searchLocation": "dublin",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T02:35:00.000Z"
}

Output field reference

Coverage key: 🟢 High (~92–100% on residential sales) · 🟡 Conditional (depends on section, listing type, or scrapeDescription: true)

🏠 Property Identity, Specs & Energy Rating

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
propertyId	string	🟢 High	Unique numeric Daft.ie listing ID (used for 100% deduplication).
daftShortcode	string	🟢 High	Daft.ie short reference code displayed on the listing.
title	string	🟢 High	Full property headline / address string as published on Daft.ie.
category	string	🟢 High	Market category (Buy, Rent, Share, New Homes, Commercial).
propertyType	string	🟢 High	Property style (Semi-D, Detached, Terrace, Apartment, Duplex, Bungalow, Site, Studio).
numBedrooms	string	🟢 High	Raw bedroom label ("4 Bed", "1, 2 & 3 bed", "Studio").
numBedroomsMin / numBedroomsMax	integer	🟢 High	Parsed integer minimum and maximum bedroom counts (0 for Studio).
numBathrooms	string	🟢 High	Bathroom count label ("3 Bath").
berRating	string	🟢 High	Irish Building Energy Rating (A1–G, or EXEMPT for protected structures).
floorArea	string	🟢 High	Normalized floor or site area ("125 m²", "2.5 acres").
dateOfConstruction	string	🟡 Conditional	Year of construction when published by the agent (e.g. "2013").
subUnitCount	integer	🟡 Conditional	Number of sub-units for PRS / multi-unit development parent listings.

💶 Pricing & Rental Terms

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
priceRaw	string	🟢 High	Raw price string ("€528,000", "€2,450 per month", "Price on Application").
priceMin / priceMax	number	🟢 High	Numeric price in EUR (equal for single-price listings; min/max for ranges; null for POA).
priceCurrency	string	🟢 High	ISO currency code ("EUR", or "GBP" on cross-border NI listings).
pricePeriod	string	🟡 Conditional	"month", "week", or "year" on rental/sharing listings; null on sales.

📍 Location, Eircode & GIS Coordinates

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
address	string	🟢 High	Full published address line.
eircode	string	🟢 High	7-character Irish postcode ("K32 A253", "D06 YW72", "T12 HD21"), ~92% fill on sales.
city	string	🟢 High	Parsed town, suburb or locality name ("Balbriggan", "Drumcondra", "Blackrock").
county	string	🟢 High	Normalized Irish county name ("Dublin", "Cork", "Galway").
country	string	🟢 High	Always "Ireland".
latitude / longitude	number	🟢 High	Exact WGS84 GPS coordinates from Daft.ie's point geometry (~100% fill).

🧑‍💼 Estate Agent & B2B Lead Profile

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
agentId	string	🟢 High	Unique Daft.ie seller/agency ID.
agentName	string	🟢 High	Individual negotiator or seller name ("Chris White").
agentBranch	string	🟢 High	Estate agency brand and branch ("Sherry Fitzgerald Cumisky Kelly").
agentType	string	🟢 High	Seller tier ("BRANDED_AGENT", "UNBRANDED_AGENT", "PRIVATE_USER").
agentLicenceNumber	string	🟢 High	Official PSRA (Property Services Regulatory Authority) licence number ("002340").
agentLogoUrl	string	🟡 Conditional	Agency logo URL when branded.
premierPartner	boolean	🟢 High	Whether the agency is a Daft.ie Premier Partner (true / false).
showContactForm	boolean	🟢 High	Whether the listing exposes a direct enquiry form.

🖼️ Media, Dates, Detail Enrichment & Provenance

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
imageUrl	string	🟢 High	Primary cover photo URL (720x480).
images	array<string>	🟢 High	Up to 12 high-resolution gallery photo URLs.
imageCount	integer	🟢 High	Total number of photos on the listing.
featuredLevel	string	🟢 High	Daft.ie promotion tier ("FEATURED", "STANDARD", "PREMIER", etc.).
publishDate	string	🟢 High	Date the listing was published/refreshed (YYYY-MM-DD).
firstPublishDate / lastUpdateDate	string	🟡 Conditional	Populated when scrapeDescription: true (or when present on the card).
description	string	🟡 Conditional	Full plain-text property description (populated when scrapeDescription: true).
features	array<string>	🟡 Conditional	Bullet list of property features/facilities (populated when scrapeDescription: true).
listingUrl	string	🟢 High	Canonical URL to the property on Daft.ie.
searchSection / searchLocation / searchUrl	string	🟢 High	Provenance metadata showing which search produced the record.
scrapedAt	string	🟢 High	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of extraction.

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🔁 Pagination & 1,000+ scale

Daft.ie serves 20 property listings per search page via ?page=N on location routes (/property-for-sale/dublin?page=2). With maxPages: 0 (the default), the Daft.ie scraper:

1. Walks sequentially through pages 1, 2, 3, … until totalSaved reaches your maxRecords (or maxItems) target.
2. Uses a 5-attempt retry ladder per page with automatic Irish residential IP rotation, plus tolerance for transient page hiccups so a single slow page never aborts a deep 1,000-record run.
3. Automatic multi-county expansion for 1,000+ runs: If you request 500+ or 1,000+ records (or maxRecords: 0 unlimited) without custom startUrls, and your initial county/area has fewer listings than your target, the Actor automatically continues across nationwide and major county queues (ireland, dublin, cork, galway, limerick, kildare, wicklow, meath, waterford, louth) while deduplicating globally by propertyId.
4. Note that Daft.ie's backend caps any single query at ~167 pages (~3,340 listings); to extract the entire ~15,000+ nationwide inventory, either run per county or shard large counties by priceFrom / priceTo bands.

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💻 API usage examples

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("haketa/daft-scraper").call(run_input={
    "section": "property-for-sale",
    "location": "dublin",
    "minBeds": 3,
    "maxRecords": 500,
    "maxPages": 0,
})

for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{row['propertyId']} | {row['eircode']} | {row['priceRaw']} | BER: {row['berRating']} | {row['agentBranch']}")

Node.js (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('haketa/daft-scraper').call({
    section: 'property-for-rent',
    location: 'cork',
    maxRecords: 200,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Saved ${items.length} Cork rental listings`);

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/haketa~daft-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"section":"property-for-sale","location":"dublin","maxRecords":100}'

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💡 Best practices & pro tips

• Keep Irish Residential Proxy (IE) enabled: Daft.ie challenges datacenter IPs within 1–2 requests. The Actor defaults to RESIDENTIAL + IE so pagination runs smoothly.
• Keep scrapeDescription: false for fast market sweeps: All core valuation and lead fields (priceMin, numBedroomsMin, berRating, floorArea, eircode, latitude/longitude, agentName, agentBranch, agentLicenceNumber) are already extracted in list-only mode at ~20 properties per second! Only enable scrapeDescription: true when you specifically need the long-form brochure text.
• Deduplicate by agentId for an instant B2B directory: Grouping a 1,000-record county sweep by agentId + agentBranch + agentLicenceNumber gives you a ranked leaderboard of every active estate agency in that region.
• Use startUrls for advanced Daft.ie filters: Apply any combination of filters on daft.ie in your browser (e.g. auction-only, specific BER range, added in last 14 days), copy the URL from the address bar, and paste it into startUrls.

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❓ Frequently asked questions

How fast is the Daft.ie scraper? In list-only mode (scrapeDescription: false), each page of 20 properties takes ~1.5–2 seconds. A 60-property prefill run finishes in ~10–15 seconds, a 400-property run takes ~75 seconds, and a 1,000-property run completes in ~3 minutes.

Why is berRating null on some rental or commercial properties? Certain historical buildings (EXEMPT) and some room-share or commercial listings do not publish a BER grade on Daft.ie. On residential property-for-sale listings, berRating populates at >99%.

How accurate is the eircode extraction? The Actor uses a dedicated Irish Eircode regular expression (supporting both standard routing keys like K32, T12, H91 and three-character Dublin routing keys like D6W) across both the published address and the URL slug, achieving ~92% Eircode coverage on residential sales.

Can I pass maxItems instead of maxRecords via API? Yes — the Actor accepts maxRecords, maxItems, maxResults, or maxListings interchangeably.

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⚠️ Limitations

• Daft.ie limits any single search query to ~167 pages (~3,340 results); use county or price-band sharding for nationwide 10,000+ exports.
• Full text description and features arrays require scrapeDescription: true, which visits each property individually and increases runtime and residential proxy transfer.
• Residential proxy access (IE) is required; running without proxies will trigger Daft.ie's security check.

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📋 Changelog

• v1.2 (2026-11-10) — Unlocked 1,000+ deep pagination & multi-county resilience: ensured maxPages: 0 (auto/unlimited governed by maxRecords / maxItems) walks seamlessly through 1,000+ listings, increased per-page retry resilience to 5 attempts with tolerance for transient page failures, added automatic multi-county fallback expansion for 500+ / 1,000+ runs, and tuned fast 60-item prefill execution.
• v1.1 (2026-11-01) — Parallel detail enrichment & Irish address/Eircode improvements: added detailConcurrency worker pool for scrapeDescription: true, improved D6W-style Eircode extraction, normalized SI_666 BER codes to EXEMPT, and formatted floorArea units (m², acres).
• v1.0 (2026-05-18) — Initial release: Daft.ie property scraper across all 6 market sections and 26 Irish counties with price, beds/baths, BER, Eircode, GPS coordinates and PSRA estate agent profiles.