BizBuySell Scraper

What does BizBuySell Scraper do?

BizBuySell is the largest marketplace for businesses for sale, featuring a wide range of listings and resources for buyers and sellers. This scraper is designed to scrape the listings of businesses for sale on BizBuySell. The data includes the name of the business, location, asking price, cash flow, revenue, ebitda, description, URL and more.

Input

• startUrls - The input can be either listing URLs (e.g. https://www.bizbuysell.com/Business-Opportunity/profitable-online-art-business-for-sale-home-based/2265003/) or search URLs(e.g. https://www.bizbuysell.com/california-businesses-for-sale/?q=bHQ9MzAsNDAsODA%3D). You can add your own filters on the search page on the BizBuySell website then copy and paste on the actor's input.
• maxItems - The maximum number of items to scrape if you're using search URLs. If you want to scrape all items, you can set it to a high number like 99999.
• datasetName - The name of the Apify dataset where the data will be stored. The actor will skip items that are already in the dataset. If you want to create a new dataset every new run, leave this field empty.

Output Example

The structure of each item returned by this actor looks like this:

1{
2	"DATE ADDED": "08/12/2024",
3	"LOCATION": "Brooklyn, NY",
4	"TITLE": "Established Juice and Smoothie Bar",
5	"INDUSTRY DETAILS": "This well established franchise store in the heart of downtown Brooklyn is currently a corporate owned location for one of the fastest growing juice bar franchises offering cold pressed juice, smoothies and acai bowls. The stores EBITDA decreased to $118,000 in 2023 because the store operated without a manager. The ideal buyer for this location would be either a hands-on operator or buyer that hires a dedicated manager to take this location back to 2022 revenue and beyond.\r\n    \r\n    \r\n    \r\n        Ad#:2250772",
6	"PRICE": "$399,000",
7	"EBITDA": "$202,000",
8	"REVENUE": "$707,112",
9	"CASH FLOW": "$202,000",
10	"YEAR ESTABLISHED": "2021",
11	"NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES": 1,
12	"STATE": "California",
13	"LINK TO DEAL": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/Business-Opportunity/established-juice-and-smoothie-bar/2250772/",
14	"INTERMEDIARY FIRM": "SFA Advisors",
15	"INTERMEDIARY PHONE": "561-717-0795",
16	"INTERMEDIARY NAME": "Paul Schlanger",
17	"INVENTORY": "Included in asking price",
18	"REASON FOR SELLING": "Health-related concerns",
19	"FURNITURE, FIXTURES, & EQUIPMENT (FF&E)": "Included in asking price"
20}

Using BizBuySell Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details.

Giving feedback

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