Scrape Idealista Property Data Without Getting Blocked

Extract accurate European real estate listings—addresses, prices, amenities, photos—at scale. Stop wasting time on manual collection or fighting anti-bot systems. With Idealista Scraper API, you get clean, structured property data from any Idealista domain in seconds, whether you're tracking 50 listings or 5 million.

Hey, so here's the thing about scraping Idealista.

You probably already know this site is a goldmine—millions of property listings across Spain, Italy, Portugal, and beyond. Prices, locations, features, photos, everything you need to spot trends, evaluate neighborhoods, or feed your rental-yield models.

But here's what nobody tells you: Idealista really, really doesn't want you scraping it.

They've got the usual suspects—CAPTCHAs, IP blocks, geo-restrictions, JavaScript rendering nightmares. You fire up your scraper, grab 100 listings, and boom: blocked. Now you're rotating proxies manually, tweaking headers, debugging timeouts at 2 AM. Not exactly how you wanted to spend your Tuesday.

What If You Could Just… Send a Request and Get the Data?

That's the whole idea here. No proxy management, no CAPTCHA solvers, no "wait, why is this page blank?" moments.

You send ScraperAPI the Idealista URL. We handle the messy stuff—rotating through 40M+ IPs, rendering JavaScript, solving CAPTCHAs, retrying failed requests. You get back clean HTML, or better yet, structured JSON/CSV if you're using our endpoints.

One API call. That's it.

Here's a quick example:

python
import requests

payload = {
'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'url': 'https://www.idealista.com/en/inmueble/106128654/',
'country': 'es'
}

response = requests.get('https://api.scraperapi.com/', params=payload)
print(response.text)

You paste your Idealista URL, hit send, and get the page back. No blocks. No drama.

Why This Matters for Real Estate Data

Let's say you're building a property valuation tool. You need data from Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon—maybe Rome too. Idealista shows different results depending on where your IP is located. Scrape from the wrong location and you're missing half the listings.

With ScraperAPI, you just set the country parameter ('es', 'it', 'pt', whatever) and we route your request through the right location. You get accurate, localized data every time.

Or maybe you're tracking market trends—monitoring price changes across thousands of listings. You can't do that manually. And you definitely can't do it if your scraper keeps getting blocked after 50 requests.

That's where the async scraper comes in. Send millions of requests simultaneously. We queue them, handle retries, and deliver results via webhook when they're ready. You just process the data.

Feed Your AI Models Without the Headaches

If you're training a rental-prediction model or building automated valuation algorithms, you need clean, structured data—not raw HTML you have to parse yourself.

Set the output parameter to markdown or text, and ScraperAPI returns Idealista pages in an LLM-ready format. No regex. No DOM traversal. Just data you can feed directly into your pipeline.

Looking to scale up and need a more robust solution? 👉 Get started with ScraperAPI for high-volume real estate scraping and stop worrying about infrastructure.

The Stuff That Usually Breaks Your Scraper? We Handle It.

• JavaScript rendering: Idealista loads content dynamically. We render it for you.

• CAPTCHAs: You'll never see one. We solve them automatically.

• IP blocks: 40M+ rotating proxies. Good luck blocking that.

• Geo-restrictions: Need data from Italy? Portugal? Just set the country.

• Rate limits: Our async scraper handles millions of concurrent requests without choking.

And if something does go wrong—timeout, weird page structure, whatever—our system retries automatically until it works.

Real People Using This for Real Projects

A few folks who've figured this out:

Cristina Saavedra (SquareTrade): "The team at ScraperAPI was so patient in helping us debug our first scraper. Thanks for being super passionate and awesome!"

Ilya Sukhar (YCombinator Partner): "A dead simple API plus a generous free tier are hard to beat. ScraperAPI is a good example of how developer experience can make a difference in a crowded category."

Alexander Zharkov (Fullstack Dev): "I researched a lot of scraping tools and am glad I found ScraperAPI. It has low cost and great tech support. They always respond within 24 hours when I need any help."

Companies like Deloitte, Sony, Alibaba, and Nielsen use this for large-scale data projects. You're in good company.

Get Started Without Overthinking It

You don't need a PhD in web scraping to use this. Sign up, grab your API key, make a request. If you need higher volume or custom concurrency, just reach out and we'll set you up with a trial that fits your project.

99.9% uptime. Unlimited bandwidth. Professional support when you need it.

No manual parsing. No infrastructure headaches. Just data.

Bottom line: If you're scraping Idealista for competitive analysis, market research, or AI training, you need something that actually works at scale. ScraperAPI handles the technical mess so you can focus on extracting insights, not debugging scrapers. That's why thousands of data teams trust it for European real estate data—and why 👉 ScraperAPI is the go-to solution for reliable, large-scale property scraping.