BizBuySell Scraper

Pull business-for-sale and franchise listings from BizBuySell with the financials, the full description, the photos, and the listing broker's name and phone number where the listing shows them. Run it by filters (industry, location, asking price, cash flow) or by pasting BizBuySell search and listing URLs. Every result is a flat JSON record with 30+ fields, ready to drop into a CRM, a deal pipeline, or a spreadsheet.

Why This Scraper

• 30+ fields per listing, including the broker contact block (broker name, phone, brokerage, license where shown), which most BizBuySell scrapers skip entirely.
• Full financials: asking price, cash flow (SDE), gross revenue, EBITDA, inventory, FF&E, real estate, established year, employees, plus everything else the listing discloses, kept verbatim in a detailsRaw map.
• Two modes: filter search (industry, location, asking price, cash flow, gross revenue, listing type, keyword, sort) or paste any BizBuySell search, category, or listing URL.
• Auto-pagination, dedup by listing id, and a fast lean mode (fetchDetails: false) when you only need the search-card fields.
• Resilient connection handling so long runs keep going.

Data You Get

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

Field	Example
id	"0000000"
url	"https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/sample-business/0000000/"
title	"Established Sample Business"
category	"Sample Category > Subcategory"
listingType	"established"
city	"Sample City"
state	"FL"
askingPrice	250000
cashFlow	95000
grossRevenue	480000
ebitda	null
inventory	20000
ffe	35000
realEstate	"Leased"
establishedYear	2018
employees	"4 FT"
reasonForSelling	"Retirement"
supportTraining	"2 weeks included"
financingAvailable	"Yes"
relocatable	"No"
homeBased	"No"
franchise	"No"
leaseInfo	"$3,500.00"
fullDescription	"Full listing description text appears here when fetchDetails is on."
shortDescription	"Short teaser from the search card."
imageUrl	"https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/000/0000000/000000-W768.webp"
images	["https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/000/0000000/000000-W768.webp"]
brokerName	"Jane Doe"
brokerPhone	"+15550000000"
brokerageName	"Sample Brokerage"
brokerProfileUrl	"https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-broker/sample/0000/"
brokerLicense	"00000000"
datePosted	"January 1, 2026"
isVerified	true
detailsRaw	{"askingPrice":"$250,000","cashFlow":"$95,000","establishedYear":"2018"}
sourceUrl	"https://www.bizbuysell.com/businesses-for-sale/"

Broker name and phone are present only on listings that BizBuySell shows them on (broker-listed businesses). Listings posted directly by owners route contact through a form and expose neither.

How to Use

Basic filter search:

{ "mode": "search", "maxPages": 3, "maxListings": 100 }

Filtered search:

{ "mode": "search", "keyword": "coffee shop", "location": "California", "minAskingPrice": 100000, "maxAskingPrice": 500000, "minCashFlow": 80000, "maxPages": 5 }

Franchise opportunities:

{ "mode": "search", "listingType": "franchise", "category": "food-and-restaurant", "maxPages": 3 }

Paste URLs (multi):

{ "mode": "url", "urls": ["https://www.bizbuysell.com/businesses-for-sale/", "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/sample-business/0000000/"], "maxPages": 2 }

Lean run (no detail pages):

{ "mode": "search", "maxPages": 5, "fetchDetails": false }

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"search"	"search" uses the filter fields; "url" fetches the URLs you paste
keyword	string	""	Free-text keyword
category	string	""	BizBuySell industry slug, e.g. "restaurants-and-food"
location	string	""	US state or metro, e.g. "Florida" or "Miami, FL"
listingType	string	"all"	"established", "asset-sale", or "franchise"
minAskingPrice	integer	none	Minimum asking price (USD)
maxAskingPrice	integer	none	Maximum asking price (USD)
minCashFlow	integer	none	Minimum cash flow / SDE (USD)
minGrossRevenue	integer	none	Minimum gross revenue (USD)
sortBy	string	"default"	"price-asc", "price-desc", "newest", "cashflow-desc"
urls	array	["https://www.bizbuysell.com/businesses-for-sale/"]	BizBuySell URLs (URL mode). Filter fields are ignored. Pagination starts at the page in the URL and walks forward.
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Open each listing for financials, full description, photos, broker contact
maxPages	integer	5	Result pages per search / per URL
maxListings	integer	0	Stop after this many listings total (0 = no limit)
proxy	object	Apify Residential US	BizBuySell needs US residential proxy

Output Example

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

{
  "id": "0000000",
  "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/sample-business/0000000/",
  "title": "Established Sample Business",
  "category": "Sample Category > Subcategory",
  "listingType": "established",
  "city": "Sample City",
  "state": "FL",
  "shortDescription": "Short teaser from the search card.",
  "fullDescription": "Full listing description text appears here when fetchDetails is on.",
  "askingPrice": 250000,
  "cashFlow": 95000,
  "grossRevenue": 480000,
  "ebitda": null,
  "inventory": 20000,
  "ffe": 35000,
  "realEstate": "Leased",
  "establishedYear": 2018,
  "employees": "4 FT",
  "reasonForSelling": "Retirement",
  "supportTraining": "2 weeks included",
  "financingAvailable": "Yes",
  "relocatable": "No",
  "homeBased": "No",
  "franchise": "No",
  "leaseInfo": "$3,500.00",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/000/0000000/000000-W768.webp",
  "images": ["https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/000/0000000/000000-W768.webp"],
  "brokerName": "Jane Doe",
  "brokerPhone": "+15550000000",
  "brokerageName": "Sample Brokerage",
  "brokerProfileUrl": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-broker/sample/0000/",
  "brokerLicense": "00000000",
  "datePosted": "January 1, 2026",
  "isVerified": true,
  "detailsRaw": { "askingPrice": "$250,000", "cashFlow": "$95,000", "establishedYear": "2018" },
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/businesses-for-sale/"
}

Plan Requirement

This actor needs Apify Residential proxy with country US (the default config). It is available on the Apify Starter plan and above. Free Apify accounts do not include Residential proxy, so a free-plan run will return zero listings; upgrade at https://apify.com/pricing.