# Daft.ie Scraper — Irish Real Estate Listings (`studio-amba/daft-scraper`) Actor

Scrape real estate listings from Daft.ie — Ireland's largest property portal. Get prices, addresses, BER ratings, coordinates, photos, and agent info for properties for sale, rent, or sharing. No login or cookies required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/studio-amba/daft-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio Amba](https://apify.com/studio-amba) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 0 monthly users, 98.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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 examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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 reads Daft.ie's own search result pages and extracts structured property listings. 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
- Reads the same listing data Daft.ie shows on its search pages, 20 listings per page
- 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 | Kept so older saved inputs still run. Not used: pages are fetched through a managed unblocking service |

#### 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), by city (`Dublin City`, `Cork City`, `Galway City`, `Belfast City`) or by any area Daft.ie lists, written the way Daft.ie names it (`Rathmines`, `Dublin City Centre`, `Salthill`). Use `Ireland` for the whole country.

If Daft.ie does not recognise the location, the run fails with a message and suggestions. It never falls back to all of Ireland, because that would give you listings from places you did not ask for.

#### 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 results) |
| `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

```json
{
    "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

It costs $0.02 per run plus $0.002 per listing. A run of 1,000 listings costs about $2.02. Each search page returns 20 listings and takes 5 to 40 seconds, and the actor reads three pages at a time, so 100 listings take one to four minutes. Usage cost only settles once a run reports SUCCEEDED.

### Limitations

- Locations are matched against Daft.ie's own list of places. If yours is not recognised, the run fails and suggests similar names.
- 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

Hit a bug or a missing field? Open an issue on the Actor page — we respond fast and ship fixes within 24 hours. Every published scraper in the Studio Amba catalog is monitored daily; broken runs trigger an automatic heal cycle.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Location to search (e.g. 'Dublin', 'Cork City', 'Galway'). Maps to Daft.ie's location filter.

## `listingType` (type: `string`):

Type of listing to search for.

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

Filter by property type.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Minimum price filter in EUR.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Maximum price filter in EUR.

## `minBeds` (type: `integer`):

Minimum number of bedrooms.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to return.

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

Proxy settings. Irish residential proxies recommended for best results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "Dublin",
  "listingType": "sale",
  "propertyType": "all",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "IE"
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchQuery": "Dublin",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "IE"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("studio-amba/daft-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 = {
    "searchQuery": "Dublin",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "IE",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("studio-amba/daft-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 '{
  "searchQuery": "Dublin",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "IE"
  }
}' |
apify call studio-amba/daft-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,studio-amba/daft-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/F4JlfE9I6RLUh2QmL/builds/qk2PA2In7sBdWzGNO/openapi.json