Idealista Scraper API
Extract property listings, rental prices, floor plans, and neighborhood data from Idealista, the largest real estate portal in Southern Europe. Stealth browsing with CAPTCHA solving bypasses aggressive anti-bot protection across Spain, Italy, and Portugal.
Idealista is the dominant real estate marketplace in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, with millions of active listings for sales, rentals, and commercial properties. Its aggressive anti-bot measures make automated data collection difficult without specialized tooling. Spider handles CAPTCHA solving, fingerprint rotation, and residential proxies so you get reliable property data at scale.
3. How can I spot fake listings?Detecting a fraudulent Online Booking listing can be tricky, but there are several signs that can help you identify a potential scam. Here are some key tips to recognise when a listing is NOT genuinely from idealista and might be from a scammer:1. **Verify the authenticity of the sender or the website you’re browsing. When in doubt, go directly to idealista.com**If you receive an email that appears to be from idealista, make sure it comes from our @idealista.com address. Be suspicious of other addresses that do not belong to our domain and mark any suspicious communication as SPAM or Phishing.Be wary of pages that seem to be idealista but are actually from a different domain, even if it looks similar (e.g. idealista.listing-xxx.com). Do not enter your credentials or any information on these pages.If in doubt, do not click on links or continue browsing these messages or websites. Close them and open a new browser, go directly to idealista.com, or use our mobile app. Once there, check your previous messages with other advertisers or the information on your idealista account, now safely on our official site.2. **Prices that are too low for the area and property features**If the booking price is significantly lower than the market average, be cautious. Scammers often use low prices to lure their victims.3. **Suspicious communication**Pay attention to how the advertiser communicates. If they avoid direct questions, pressure you to make a quick decision, or request payments through insecure methods like bank transfers or non-reversible payment services such as gift cards, cryptocurrencies, postal orders, or cash, this is a red flag.Similarly, if they ask you to pay through a payment gateway of another booking portal, be wary; idealista does not use other portals to handle payments for reservations or any type of property.4. **Links to idealista sent via chatThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on idealista.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.idealista.com/en/venta-viviendas/madrid-madrid/");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
captcha: "solve",
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.idealista.com/en/venta-viviendas/madrid-madrid/");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const listings = [];
document.querySelectorAll("article.item").forEach(el => {
const address = el.querySelector(".item-link")?.textContent?.trim();
const price = el.querySelector(".item-price")?.textContent?.trim();
const details = el.querySelector(".item-detail-char")?.textContent?.trim();
const agency = el.querySelector(".item-not-clickable-logo img")?.getAttribute("alt");
if (address) listings.push({ address, price, details, agency });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: listings.length, listings: listings.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
What teams build with idealista.com data.
Market Analysis
Track listing prices, rental yields, and days on market across Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese cities to identify investment hotspots.
Price Monitoring
Monitor price changes and new listings in target neighborhoods to find underpriced properties before competitors.
Lead Generation
Build lists of active agencies, new listings, and price-reduced properties for real estate marketing campaigns.
Portfolio Benchmarking
Compare your rental portfolio against current market rates to optimize pricing and identify repositioning opportunities.
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
CAPTCHA solving
Automated CAPTCHA solving and fingerprint rotation to reliably access Idealista despite aggressive bot detection measures.
Spain, Italy, Portugal
Full support for all three Idealista markets with geo-targeted proxies and locale-aware extraction.
Property intelligence
Structured JSON with pricing, square meters, rooms, energy rating, floor plans, agency data, and location coordinates.
What idealista.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000078 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
Scraping idealista.com.
Does Spider work with all Idealista markets?
Yes. Spider supports idealista.com (Spain), idealista.it (Italy), and idealista.pt (Portugal), with geo-targeted proxies for each market.
How does Spider handle Idealista anti-bot protection?
Spider uses CAPTCHA solving, residential proxy rotation, and stealth browsing to reliably access Idealista despite its aggressive bot detection.
What Idealista data can I extract?
Property titles, prices, square meters, rooms, bathrooms, floor level, energy rating, description, agency name, contact info, images, and location coordinates.
Can I scrape Idealista search results by city or neighborhood?
Yes. Navigate to any Idealista search URL (city, district, neighborhood, or custom filter) and Spider will extract all visible property listings.
Does Spider extract rental and sale listings?
Yes. Spider handles both sale (venta) and rental (alquiler) listing pages, as well as commercial and shared housing categories.
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Start scraping idealista.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.