# Flippa Listings: Price, Revenue, Profit Multiple by Search (`accountable_eel/flippa-listing-lookup`) Actor

Flippa listings from any search page: asking price, monthly revenue, monthly profit, profit multiple, type and industry, with a monitoring mode that only returns and bills for new listings.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/accountable_eel/flippa-listing-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Adriana Voss](https://apify.com/accountable_eel) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 listing returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Flippa Listings: Price, Revenue, Profit Multiple by Search

**Turn any Flippa search into rows: price, monthly revenue, monthly profit, profit multiple, type, industry and age for each business or website for sale.**
Set your filters on flippa.com, paste the search address, and get one clean row per listing. Turn on monitoring and run it on a schedule to get only the listings that are new since your last run, charged per listing and free on a quiet day.

**Who uses it:** acquirers and flippers who screen new websites, SaaS and ecommerce stores for sale; brokers tracking asking prices and multiples by niche; analysts building a dataset of what small online businesses sell for.

### How to use

1. **In the Apify Console.** Open the actor page and click **Start** — the `searchUrls` field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found.
2. **Via the API.** Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token:
   ```bash
   curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~flippa-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"searchUrls":["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"]}'
   ```
3. **On a schedule.** Save this actor as an Apify **Task** with the input you want, then add a **Schedule** (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required.

### Input

```json
{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"
  ]
}
```

One flippa.com/search URL per line. Set your filters on flippa.com/search (type, industry, price, sort) and paste the address. Flippa ignores a plain keyword in the URL, so use the filters, then narrow further with the keyword filters below. Accepted formats: https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website\&sort_alias=most_recent, flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=saas\&sort_alias=most_recent.

Each line is a flippa.com search page (any type, industry, price range or sort you set on Flippa). Up to 250 listings per search come back, fetched 50 per page. Flippa ignores a plain keyword in the address, so use its filters for the niche and the keyword filters on this actor to narrow further. Optional price and profit limits run after the fetch.

### Output

One row per listing, for example:

| query | found | status | searchSummary | listingCount | truncated | monitorStatus | listings | listingId | name | description | businessType | industry | location | price | currency | priceType | originalPrice | reducedPercent | monthlyRevenue | monthlyProfit | profitMultiple | age | dataVerified | listingChannel | listingUrl | searchUrl | isNew | firstSeenAt | scrapedAt |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website\&sort_alias=most_recent | true | OK | <search run> | <listings returned> | <more listings were available> | <monitoring status> | \<all listings (full list)> | <listing id> | <listing name> | <description> | <business type> | <industry> | <location> | <price> | <currency> | <price type> | <original price> | \<reduced by (%)> | <monthly revenue> | <monthly profit> | <profit multiple> | <business age> | <data verified by flippa> | <listing channel> | <listing page> | <search page> | \<is this listing new?> | <first seen on a run> | 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z |

A miss (a bad URL, a page with no listings) comes back as a row with `"found": false` and is never charged. `monthlyRevenue`, `monthlyProfit`, `profitMultiple` and `price` are `null` when Flippa shows N/A — never `0`; `monthlyProfit` can be negative. Seller names and contact details are not collected.

### Pricing

- **Listing returned**: $1.6 per 1,000 listings

Plus a $0.003 start fee per run. Each event above is billed independently, only when it actually returns data — misses (`found:false`) are never charged.

### Example runs

Paste any of these into the Input tab and press Start. All three return rows with no key, no token
and no account of your own beyond an Apify login.

**Newest websites for sale, 25 listings.** The default shape.

```json
{
  "searchUrls": ["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"],
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

**Profitable listings under $20,000.**

```json
{
  "searchUrls": ["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"],
  "maxPriceUsd": 20000,
  "minMonthlyProfitUsd": 500,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

**New-listing alert for SaaS, with monitoring on.** Run daily; only listings you have not seen are returned and billed.

```json
{
  "searchUrls": ["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=saas&sort_alias=most_recent"],
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "deltaName": "saas-watch"
}
```

### Use it from Clay, n8n, Make, or an AI agent

This actor runs synchronously over plain HTTP — call it directly from a script, a workflow tool, or an AI agent, no Apify Console needed once you have an API token.

```bash
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~flippa-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchUrls":["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"]}'
```

**n8n.** Add an HTTP Request node: Method `POST`, URL `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~flippa-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>`, Body Content Type `JSON`, JSON Body `{"searchUrls":["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"]}` (swap in an expression from an earlier node for a real value).

**Clay.** Add an "HTTP API" column: Method `POST`, URL `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~flippa-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>`, Body `{"searchUrls":["{{search}}"]}`, mapping the row's search into the `searchUrls` array.

**MCP.** In Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client with the Apify MCP server, ask for "flippa scraper" — the agent will find and run this actor.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchUrls` (type: `array`):

One flippa.com/search URL per line. Set your filters on flippa.com/search (type, industry, price, sort) and paste the address. Flippa ignores a plain keyword in the URL, so use the filters, then narrow further with the keyword filters below. Accepted formats: https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website\&sort_alias=most_recent, flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=saas\&sort_alias=most_recent. You're only charged for the ones we actually find — a miss costs nothing.

## `testRun` (type: `boolean`):

Turn this on to test your input on a small sample before running the full list. Turn it off to process everything.

## `onlyFound` (type: `boolean`):

Only keep rows where something was actually found. Misses are always free, whether or not you show them here.

## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Optional. Only keep results that mention at least one of these words (e.g. a job title, a city, a product name). Leave empty to keep everything.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Optional. Drop any result that mentions one of these words. Leave empty to skip nothing.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Stop the run once this many results have been found — useful for a quick, cheap sample. Leave blank for no limit.

## `maxPriceUsd` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Drop listings priced above this. A listing with no shown price is kept.

## `minMonthlyProfitUsd` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Keep only listings that show a monthly profit at or above this. Listings whose profit is N/A are dropped when this is set.

## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`):

On: only listing ids you have not been given before are returned and charged for. Run it on a schedule as a new-listing alert. Off: every matching listing is returned every time.

## `deltaName` (type: `string`):

Optional. Names this watchlist's memory so you can tell two schedules apart or keep one memory across an input change. Leave empty to derive one from your URLs and filters.

## `columns` (type: `array`):

Choose which pieces of information to include in each result row. All are included by default.

## `expandRows` (type: `boolean`):

When on, each listing found gets its own row instead of being grouped under its search. You're still only charged once per search, no matter how many rows it produces.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests. Keep conservative — this target has no browser fallback, so getting blocked costs more than slow-and-steady.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy config. Residential recommended for anti-bot-sensitive targets.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"
  ],
  "testRun": false,
  "onlyFound": false,
  "includeKeywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "deltaName": "",
  "columns": [
    "searchSummary",
    "listingCount",
    "truncated",
    "monitorStatus",
    "listings",
    "listingId",
    "name",
    "description",
    "businessType",
    "industry",
    "location",
    "price",
    "currency",
    "priceType",
    "originalPrice",
    "reducedPercent",
    "monthlyRevenue",
    "monthlyProfit",
    "profitMultiple",
    "age",
    "dataVerified",
    "listingChannel",
    "listingUrl",
    "searchUrl",
    "isNew",
    "firstSeenAt"
  ],
  "expandRows": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"
    ],
    "includeKeywords": [],
    "excludeKeywords": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("accountable_eel/flippa-listing-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchUrls": ["https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"],
    "includeKeywords": [],
    "excludeKeywords": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("accountable_eel/flippa-listing-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=website&sort_alias=most_recent"
  ],
  "includeKeywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": []
}' |
apify call accountable_eel/flippa-listing-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,accountable_eel/flippa-listing-lookup"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/D8zZXme7g8ZeNmqEG/builds/vt9ZSU1e2bhxuU1EG/openapi.json