Real estate API·135 credits per call

Search real estate listings across Southern Europe.

Retrieve structured property data from Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Filter by price, location, and specific amenities without managing browser automation.

POSTautomatio.ai/api/v1/query{ tool: "idealista_search", params: { locationId: … } }

How it works

One request, one response.

  1. 1

    Define search parameters

    Submit the location, operation type, and desired filters like price or bedrooms in a single JSON body.

  2. 2

    Process the query

    The system authenticates the request and retrieves matching listings from the platform index.

  3. 3

    Receive structured listings

    A JSON array of property data including prices, features, and location details is returned to your application.

Capabilities

What you get.

Everything this endpoint does, without running the infrastructure yourself.

Multi-country coverage

Support for property searches in Spain, Italy, and Portugal using the location parameter.

Granular amenity filtering

Filter results by specific property features such as swimmingPool, elevator, or terrace.

Flexible property types

Query across various categories including homes, offices, commercial spaces, and land.

Advanced sorting options

Order results by relevance, price, size, or date using the order parameter to prioritize specific listings.

Listing recency control

Filter for the newest properties using the sinceDate parameter to avoid redundant data processing.

Cost of ownership

Build it yourself, or call this.

Both are real options. Here is what each one actually costs you.

Run it yourself

  • Build custom scrapers for three different countries
  • Manage constant site layout changes and IP blocking
  • Store and deduplicate large volumes of raw HTML
  • Handle CAPTCHAs and session persistence.

Call the API

  • One request for all regions and property types
  • Structured JSON output ready for database ingestion
  • Automatic handling of site-specific search logic
  • Usage-based billing per successful search call.

Integrate

Built for the language you use.

One HTTP endpoint. Copy the call in your language and go.

example.sh
curl -X POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTOMATIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "tool": "idealista_search", "params": { "locationId": "example", "locationName": "example", "location": "example", "operation": "example" } }'

In production

What people build with it.

Market price monitoring

Input a locationId and propertyType to track price trends for specific neighborhoods over time. This data feeds into appraisal tools or investment dashboards for real estate analysts.

Real estate lead aggregators

Set specific filters like bankOffer or newDevelopment to find unique investment opportunities. Developers use this to populate niche property portals with highly specific subsets of the market.

Relocation platform tools

Filter for furnished rentals with airConditioning in specific cities to provide curated housing options for expats. The API returns ready-to-display data for map views and comparison tables.

Choosing parameters

Which options matter.

The table below lists what exists. These are the calls worth making deliberately.

locationId
Use the idealista_locations or idealista_suggestions endpoints to find the correct ID for a city or district. Entering a raw city name here without the corresponding ID will likely result in an empty response.
operation
This must be set to either sale or rent. Mixing these is not supported in a single call, so separate requests are needed to compare purchase vs rental yields in one area.
sinceDate
Use this to implement delta updates for your local database. Setting this to T (today) or Y (yesterday) ensures you only pay for the newest listings rather than re-indexing existing ones.
bedrooms
This accepts an array of integers. Providing multiple values allows for broader search results compared to a single value, which is useful for family-focused property portals.

Alternatives

When to use something else.

A page that pretends it has no alternatives reads as an advert. These are the other real options.

Official API

Best for high-volume enterprise partners who have a direct commercial agreement with the platform.

Manual Browser Scraping

Useful if you only need a handful of listings occasionally and can manually solve CAPTCHAs and navigate layout changes.

Before you integrate

What it does not do.

The boundaries are as useful as the features. These are the ones worth knowing up front.

Result caps

The number of results returned in a single call is limited by the platform's pagination logic. Callers must use the startPage parameter to iterate through large result sets.

Geographical identifiers

You cannot search by latitude and longitude coordinates directly. You must first resolve the location into a locationId using the suggestion tool.

Contact information

This endpoint provides listing data but does not directly facilitate communication with agents. Automated messaging or lead submission is outside the scope of this search tool.

Reference

135 credits per call
Endpoint
POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query
Tool ID
idealista_search

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
locationIdstringLocation ID from idealistaGetSuggestions (e.g. "0-EU-ES-28-07-001-079")
locationNamestringHuman-readable location name, e.g. Madrid. Never include parentheses () — they silently break the search. Use a clean name from idealistaGetSuggestions with no "(City)" / "(Province)" clarifiers.
location"es" | "pt" | "it"Country code: Spain (es), Portugal (pt), Italy (it)
operation"sale" | "rent"Property operation type
propertyType"homes" | "newhomes" | "rooms" | "garages" | "storagerooms" | "buildings" | "lands" | "offices" | "commercial"Type of listing to search (default: homes)
maxResultsintegerMaximum number of listings to return (default: 40, max: 480). The tool fetches multiple pages automatically to reach this count. Use this when the user asks for more than 40 results.
startPageintegerAPI page to start from (default: 1). Useful for continuing a previous search.
order"relevance" | "lowestprice" | "highestprice" | "mostrecent" | "leastrecent" | "highestpricereduction" | "lowestpricem2" | "highestpricem2" | "biggest" | "smallest"Sort order (default: relevance)
locale"es" | "it" | "pt" | "en" | "ca" | "de" | "fr" | "nl" | "nb"Response language (default: en)
minPricenumberMinimum price in local currency
maxPricenumberMaximum price in local currency
minSizenumberMinimum size in m²
maxSizenumberMaximum size in m²
bedroomsinteger[]Number of bedrooms to filter by (0, 1, 2, 3, or 4+). Array for multiple: [1, 2]
elevatorboolean
garageboolean
swimmingPoolboolean
terraceboolean
airConditioningboolean
exteriorboolean
gardenboolean
furnished"furnished" | "furnishedKitchen"Furniture requirement for rentals
newDevelopmentbooleanNew development properties only
sinceDate"T" | "Y" | "W" | "M"Date filter: T=last 24h (rent only), Y=last 48h (buy only), W=last week, M=last month
bankOfferbooleanBank-owned properties only

The same endpoints are available over MCP, and the full machine-readable catalogue lives in the API documentation.

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