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Idealista property data,
delivered at scale.

We extract property listings, pricing signals, agency details, and market inventory from Idealista. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Listings extracted
1.2M /day
Price updates
340K /24h
Agencies tracked
42K /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from idealista.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Property Listings objects from idealista.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idtitleproperty_typeoperationpricecurrencyarea_sqmroomsbathroomsfloorhas_elevatordescriptionurlphotosenergy_rating
property_listings
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "98472911",
"title": "Flat / apartment for sale in calle de Goya",
"property_type": "flat",
"operation": "sale",
"price": 850000,
"currency": "EUR",
"area_sqm": 120,
"rooms": 3,
"bathrooms": 2,
"has_elevator": true
# listing_idtitleproperty_typeoperationpricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Valuation objects from idealista.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idcurrent_priceoriginal_priceprice_drop_amountprice_drop_pctprice_per_sqmcommunity_feesibi_taxvaluation_estimatelast_updated
pricing_& valuation
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "98472911",
"current_price": 850000,
"original_price": 890000,
"price_drop_amount": 40000,
"price_drop_pct": 4.5,
"price_per_sqm": 7083.33,
"community_fees": 150,
"last_updated": "2023-10-24T14:32:00Z"
# listing_idcurrent_priceoriginal_priceprice_drop_amountprice_drop_pctprice_per_sqm
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Complete list of extractable fields for Location Data objects from idealista.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idprovincemunicipalitydistrictneighborhoodstreet_namelatitudelongitudeexact_location_hiddendistance_to_center
location_data
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "98472911",
"province": "Madrid",
"municipality": "Madrid",
"district": "Salamanca",
"neighborhood": "Goya",
"latitude": 40.4245,
"longitude": -3.6742,
"exact_location_hidden": true
# listing_idprovincemunicipalitydistrictneighborhoodstreet_name
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Complete list of extractable fields for Agency Details objects from idealista.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

agency_idagency_nameagency_logophone_numbercontact_nameagency_properties_countagency_urlis_professionalapi_reference
agency_details
● 200 OK
"agency_id": "pro-4921",
"agency_name": "Engel & Völkers Madrid",
"phone_number": "+34 91 234 56 78",
"is_professional": true,
"agency_properties_count": 342,
"agency_url": "https://www.idealista.com/pro/engel-volkers-madrid/"
# agency_idagency_nameagency_logophone_numbercontact_nameagency_properties_count
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Complete list of extractable fields for Features & Amenities objects from idealista.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idconditionhas_terracehas_balconyhas_parkingparking_pricehas_poolhas_gardenhas_air_conditioninghas_heatingheating_type
features_& amenities
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "98472911",
"condition": "good_condition",
"has_terrace": false,
"has_balcony": true,
"has_parking": true,
"parking_price": 30000,
"has_air_conditioning": true,
"heating_type": "individual_gas"
# listing_idconditionhas_terracehas_balconyhas_parkingparking_price
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Capabilities

Deep property intelligence across Southern Europe

Our Idealista scraper extracts complete listing metadata, historical pricing, and agency details across Spain, Italy, and Portugal — bypassing strict Datadome protections to deliver clean, structured datasets.

Comprehensive Property Metadata

Extract size, rooms, floor level, elevator status, energy certification, and full descriptive text for residential and commercial listings.

Price Drop Tracking

Capture original listing prices versus current prices to calculate discount percentages and track market cooling in specific districts.

Geospatial & Polygon Extraction

Query by exact polygon coordinates or administrative boundaries (province, municipality, district) to map inventory density.

Agency & Broker Intelligence

Identify the listing agent, professional status, contact numbers, and total portfolio size to map market share among brokerages.

Media & Asset Links

Extract high-resolution image URLs, virtual tour links, and floor plan images associated with every property.

Cross-Border Coverage

Unified schema across idealista.com (Spain), idealista.it (Italy), and idealista.pt (Portugal) for pan-European analysis.

Datadome Circumvention

Native handling of Idealista's aggressive Datadome anti-bot layer using advanced TLS fingerprinting and residential proxy rotation.

High-Frequency Updates

Monitor fast-moving rental markets with intra-day scraping cadences to capture listings before they are taken offline.

Amenity Parsing

Structured extraction of specific features: terraces, pools, parking availability, heating types, and air conditioning.

// engagement pipeline

From target region to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target municipalities, property types (sale/rent), or specific agency profiles. We map the extraction schema.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright crawlers, EU residential proxy rotation, and Datadome bypass mechanisms for idealista.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, coordinate accuracy checks, and price-outlier detection before production launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Idealista pipeline handles the hard parts

Idealista employs some of the strictest anti-scraping measures in European real estate. Here is how our infrastructure maintains continuous extraction.

pipeline-monitor · idealista.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Datadome bypass & TLS spoofing

Idealista uses Datadome to block automated traffic. Our infrastructure uses localized residential proxies (Spain, Italy, Portugal) combined with exact browser fingerprint matching and TLS spoofing to mimic genuine user behaviour and maintain high success rates.

Pagination limits
Polygon subdivision for deep extraction

Idealista caps search results at 60 pages (1,800 listings) per query. For dense markets like Madrid or Milan, we algorithmically subdivide map polygons into smaller geographic bounding boxes to extract 100% of the inventory without hitting pagination walls.

Data normalisation
Standardised metrics across languages

Property descriptions and amenity flags vary across Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. We normalise fields like property type, heating, and condition into a unified, machine-readable schema for cross-border analytics.

Change detection
Track market velocity

We maintain state on previously extracted listings. When a property drops in price or is delisted, our pipeline registers the delta, allowing you to calculate days-on-market and exact price adjustments over time.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, Datadome block increases, and coverage drops — and respond before you notice.

Applications

Who uses Idealista data — and how

Teams across industries use idealista.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Automated Valuation Models (AVM)

PropTech companies train valuation algorithms using historical price-per-square-meter data, location premiums, and property condition metrics.

02
Institutional Investment Analysis

Private equity and REITs monitor yield compression, rental market velocity, and supply constraints across specific European districts.

03
Agency Market Share Tracking

Real estate franchises track competitor portfolios, average days-on-market, and listing acquisition rates by specific brokerages.

04
iBuyer & Flipping Operations

Investors configure real-time alerts for underpriced properties, motivated sellers, or listings with significant recent price drops.

05
Urban Planning & Research

Consultancies and municipalities analyse housing affordability, energy certificate distribution, and neighborhood gentrification trends.

06
Lead Generation for Services

Mortgage brokers, moving companies, and renovation contractors identify new listings and professional agencies for targeted B2B outreach.

Why DataFlirt

"Idealista holds the definitive record of Southern Europe's real estate market — but strict bot protections make extracting that intelligence a massive engineering challenge."

Most internal data teams struggle with Idealista because Datadome blocks standard HTTP clients immediately. Building a resilient pipeline requires localized residential proxies, advanced fingerprinting, and polygon-subdivision logic to bypass pagination limits. DataFlirt manages this infrastructure so you receive clean property records, not blocked requests.

Technical Spec

Idealista scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our idealista.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

Datadome bypass
Automated handling of CAPTCHAs and behavioral challenges
Supported
Multi-country support
Native extraction for idealista.com, idealista.it, and idealista.pt
Supported
Polygon mapping
Extract listings constrained by custom latitude/longitude bounding boxes
Supported
Historical price tracking
Capture original price, current price, and calculate discount metrics
Supported
Commercial & Residential
Support for flats, houses, offices, garages, land, and storage rooms
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
High-resolution media
Extraction of direct CDN links for unwatermarked images (where available)
Supported
Exact hidden addresses
Street numbers hidden by agents for privacy reasons
Partial
User direct messaging
Automated sending of contact messages or viewing requests via the portal
Partial
Saved search alerts
Extracting data from authenticated user 'saved search' email notifications
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Idealista pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across ES/IT/PT regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for direct analyst consumption
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted datasets
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About idealista.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Idealista legal?

Scraping publicly available property data is generally permissible for non-personal data under EU law, provided it does not breach specific database rights or cause technical harm to the platform. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated listing information. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should consult legal counsel regarding their specific commercial use cases.

How do you bypass Datadome on Idealista?

We utilize localized residential proxies specific to the target country (Spain, Italy, or Portugal), coupled with Playwright sessions that inject realistic browser fingerprints (canvas, WebGL, navigator properties). This mimics genuine human traffic patterns and prevents Datadome from triggering CAPTCHAs or blocks.

How do you handle Idealista's 60-page limit?

Idealista caps search pagination at 1,800 results. For queries yielding more listings (e.g., 'all flats in Madrid'), our pipeline automatically subdivides the geographic search area using micro-polygons or smaller administrative districts until every sub-query returns fewer than 1,800 results, ensuring 100% data capture.

Can you track historical price changes?

Yes. Our change-detection system maintains state on all seen listings. When a property price is updated on Idealista, we record the new price, the original price, the absolute drop, and the timestamp of the change.

Which countries do you support?

Our Idealista pipeline supports all three primary markets: idealista.com (Spain), idealista.it (Italy), and idealista.pt (Portugal). The output schema is standardised across all three domains.

Can you extract exact addresses?

We extract the exact latitude and longitude if the listing agent has made it public. However, if the agent has chosen to hide the exact street number (a common practice on Idealista), we can only extract the approximate location and neighborhood data provided by the platform.

What is the update frequency?

Pipelines can be configured for daily, weekly, or intra-day cadences depending on your requirements. Fast-moving rental markets are typically scraped every 6-12 hours to capture transient inventory.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=idealista.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a daily feed of all rental listings in Milan or a historical pricing dataset for Madrid — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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