Daft.ie Scraper — Ireland Property Listings

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Extract property listings from Daft.ie, Ireland's #1 property portal — for rent, for sale, sharing, and new homes. Returns clean structured data (price, beds, baths, BER, agent, geo) ready for CSV / Excel / JSON / API.

Built for real estate investors, proptech developers, market analysts, and agencies who need Irish property data at scale.

What you get per listing

Detail-only fields (baths, sizeSqm, psra, priceHistory) are returned as null from the search listing and populate once the detail crawl lands (see Roadmap).

Input

{
"categories":["rent"],
"counties":["dublin-city","cork"],
"priceMax":3000,
"bedsMin":2,
"maxItems":1000,
"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"],"apifyProxyCountry":"IE"}
}

• categories: rent | sale | share | new-home
• counties: Daft location slugs exactly as in the site URL — dublin-city, dublin, cork, cork-city, galway, …
• priceMin/Max, bedsMin/Max: optional filters (price is monthly for rent/share, total for sale)
• maxItems: hard stop
• Each category × county is one search; the actor reads the total, then fans out all pages.

Run locally

npminstall
npm start # builds TS then runs; uses ./storage for input/output

Put test input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json. Output lands in storage/datasets/default/.

Deploy to Apify

npm i -g apify-cli
apify login
apify push

Then in the Apify console set Monetization → Pay per result (suggested $2 / 1,000 results; you keep 80%). To use pay-per-event instead, switch the actor to PPE and uncomment the Actor.charge(...) line in src/main.ts.

How it works

Daft is a Next.js site — listing data is embedded in the page as JSON (classic #__NEXT_DATA__ or app-router self.__next_f streaming chunks), so the actor parses JSON directly (fast, cheap, no headless browser). A DOM-parsing fallback covers markup changes.

First run: confirm listings populate from JSON (source: "json" in output). If you see source: "dom" warnings, Daft changed its data shape — update the array detection in extractEmbedded/findListingsArray.

Legal / etiquette

Scrapes public listing pages only. Does not touch api.daft.ie (gated, ToS-restricted). Respects robots by avoiding blocked bot UAs; rate-limited via Apify proxy. Photos are linked, not rehosted. Public agent/business listing data → low PII exposure.

Roadmap

• Detail crawl — visit each listing for guaranteed BER, geo, floor area, full description, all photos.
• Monitor mode — diff against last run → emit new / price_drop / delisted (recurring revenue).
• Sister actors — clone skeleton to MyHome.ie (uncovered #2 IE portal), then PropertyPal (NI).