Daft.ie Scraper for Irish Property Listings and Sold Prices

Daft.ie Data We Collect from Each Advert

A Daft.ie advert is addressed by its section and a number: /for-sale/, /for-rent/, /share/, /new-home-for-sale/ or /commercial-property-for-sale/, then a slug built from the address, then the listing id. The page prints a second number as well, the Daft ID. We keep both, and the fields below under the labels the site gives them.

• Identity and location - listing id, Daft ID, URL, section, the address line with its area and county, and the Eircode where the advertiser gives one.
• Price - the asking price in euro or the wording that stands in for it: AMV, Price on Application, a From price on a development, Rent Negotiable on a commercial let. Rent per month or per week. On sale adverts also Price per square metre, Estimated Stamp Duty and Selling Type - By Private Treaty or By Public Auction. Northern Ireland adverts show pounds with the euro figure in brackets; we keep both.
• Property - beds, baths, floor area in square metres or, for a site, its size in acres, property type as Daft.ie abbreviates it (Detached, Semi-D, Terrace, End of Terrace, Bungalow, Apartment, Studio, Site), Standard features such as Parking, Central Heating or Pets Allowed, the description and photo addresses.
• Energy - the BER rating exactly as printed, whether a full grade such as B2, a bare letter or BER exempt, with the BER No and the Energy Performance figure in kWh/m2/yr where the advert gives them.
• Rental and sharing - Available From, Furnished, Lease and the Single Bedroom and Double Bedroom counts; for a room, its type, Available For, Sharing with and Owner Occupied.
• Status and activity - Sale Agreed, the online offers label and the number of offers it shows, open viewing times, Date listed, Views and, on promoted adverts, the Ad level such as Advantage GOLD.
• Advertiser - the agency or developer name and its office phone; sold records add the agency's PSR Licence Number.
• Surroundings - primary schools, secondary schools and public transport stops, each with its distance from the property.

Search pages return the card version of the same advert - address, price, beds, baths, floor area, type, BER and agency - so a first pass can be built from search alone and deepened from the advert pages.

Daft.ie Sold Prices, New Listings and Price History

Daft.ie shows sold prices in a section of its own. Each sold record sits under /sold/ with a long code in place of a listing id and carries the SOLD date, the sold price and the address. Where the sale matches an earlier advert, the asking price, beds, baths, floor area, type, BER and selling agency sit beside it; where it does not, the record is marked as having limited details. We deliver both kinds and flag which is which, so the gap between asking and sold is measured only where both figures exist.

Asking prices move too, but an advert shows only today's figure. A card can carry a Reduced Price label with no amount and no date. To see Daft.ie price changes with amounts and dates, the same adverts have to be read on a schedule: every run stores the price under the listing id, and the differences become a price history with each drop and rise dated. The same comparison gives new listings, adverts that turned Sale Agreed and adverts that disappeared.

Old Daft listings are the usual gap: a withdrawn advert leaves the search, and the only place to find it is an archive somebody kept. Ours starts with your first run and keeps each row as it stood.

Beyond the single advert we cover search results by county, area and property type with their totals, all adverts of one agency through its listings link, the unit types inside a development and the college pages that group student accommodation.