BizBuySell Scraper

BizBuySell Scraper extracts businesses for sale and franchises from BizBuySell — no account, API key or browser needed. One Actor covers four jobs:

• 🏪 Business listings with full details — asking price, cash flow, revenue, EBITDA, price multiples, broker name and phone, address, photos and the complete seller write-up on every record, with no per-listing detail charge.
• 🗺️ Whole-market exports — any state, city, county or industry, and even all of BizBuySell: searches beyond BizBuySell's 10,000-result cap are split automatically.
• 🔔 Deal alerts — monitor mode returns only new or changed listings on scheduled runs; unchanged ones cost nothing.
• 🍔 Franchise research — franchise fees, royalty and ad-fund %, cash and net worth required, investment range, average unit revenue, success rates and unit growth by year.

Paste any BizBuySell URL or pick filters (state, industry, price, cash flow, revenue, days listed, seller financing, SBA and more). It reads up to 200 complete listings per request — about 3,000 listings a minute — and exports to JSON, CSV, Excel or straight into Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, Zapier, Make or n8n.

Get full details on every listing

Most BizBuySell scrapers read the search-result cards and charge extra — and often fail — to open each listing page. This Actor reads the same data BizBuySell's own website loads, so every record already includes:

Group	You get
Financials	asking price, cash flow (SDE), gross revenue, EBITDA, net income, owner's compensation, price ÷ cash flow, price ÷ EBITDA, price ÷ revenue, inventory, FF&E, real estate value and whether it's included, rent and lease terms
Business	industry and sub-industry, listing type, year established, full-time / part-time employees, home-based, relocatable, absentee owner, seller financing, SBA pre-qualified, franchise brand
Location	street address, city, county, state, ZIP, country, latitude / longitude (unless the seller keeps them confidential)
Seller write-up	description, facilities, competition, growth & expansion, support & training, reason for selling, website
Contact	listed by (owner, broker, franchisor…), contact name and phone, tracking phone, photo, brokerage, broker profile and logo
Media & activity	all full-size photos, documents such as PDF teasers, Diamond / Showcase level, page views, last-updated date, recently added / updated / price-reduced badges

Get past BizBuySell's 10,000-result limit

BizBuySell never shows more than 10,000 results for one search, so a big state or a nationwide search normally gets cut off. Here, a search that's too big is split into narrower ones — by industry, then by state, then by sub-industry — and duplicates are removed, so you get the complete market: every listing in a large state, an industry nationwide, or all of BizBuySell in one run. Set Max results to 0 to take everything.

Set it up for your goal

Each goal below has a matching view in the Output tab that shows just the columns you need, ready to download as CSV or Excel.

Goal	Set this	Then open
Everything on one BizBuySell page	Paste the page URL — a state, city, county or industry page, or a search you set up on BizBuySell.	Listings
Deals that fit your buy box	States + Industries + min/max asking price, cash flow and revenue; add Seller financing or SBA pre-qualified if you need them.	Financials
Valuation comps	An industry and region, Sort by cash flow. Each listing's price ÷ cash flow and price ÷ EBITDA multiples are already worked out.	Financials
A call list of brokers and sellers	Any search in your target market.	Broker & seller contacts
Territory or market mapping	States, or a city or county page URL.	Location
New deals every morning	Listed within the last 1 day, or turn on monitor mode and schedule the run.	Changes
Listings you're already tracking	Paste their URLs. Listings that were taken down are reported in the log.	Listings
A franchise shortlist	Paste the franchise directory, a franchise category or a brand's page.	Franchises

Example input: profitable service businesses in Texas and Florida

{
    "states": ["TX", "FL"],
    "categories": ["service-businesses"],
    "minCashFlow": 250000,
    "maxAskingPrice": 2000000,
    "sellerFinancingOnly": true,
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "maxResults": 500
}

Example input: a pasted search, everything on it

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/florida/restaurants-and-food-businesses-for-sale/" }],
    "maxResults": 0
}

Get only new and changed listings

Stop re-reading the same listings every week. Turn on Only new or changed listings (monitor mode) and schedule the Actor: the first run saves every match, and each later run saves only listings that are new or whose price, financials or details changed. Each one is marked NEW or UPDATED, shows when you first saw it, and keeps the old asking price when the price moved — so price drops stand out. Later runs usually finish in seconds, and listings that didn't change are neither saved nor charged. Give each alert its own Monitor name to keep their histories apart, and add Apify's email or Slack integration to get the new deals delivered.

{
    "keyword": "HVAC",
    "listingTypes": ["established"],
    "monitorMode": true,
    "monitorName": "hvac-alerts",
    "maxResults": 0
}

Compare franchises before you talk to a franchisor

Paste BizBuySell's franchise directory, a category such as low-cost or food franchises, or a single brand's page. Each franchise answers the questions buyers ask first:

Your question	What you get
How much money do I need?	Cash required, net worth required, total investment range and the average initial investment
What will I pay the franchisor?	Franchise fee, royalty and ad-fund fee, as the franchisor states them and as percentages from the franchise disclosure data
Do franchisees do well?	Average revenue per unit, plus success and continuity rates from FRANdata
Is the brand growing or shrinking?	Franchised and company-owned units, units opened last year, and unit counts year by year
Who's behind it, and can I open one where I live?	Headquarters, CEO, website, training offered, the states it sells in, and the date of the latest disclosure document

For example, Wayback Burgers comes back with $250,000 cash and $500,000 net worth required, a $550,000–$650,000 total investment, a $35,000 franchise fee, royalty of $400 + 6% of gross sales, a 2% ad fund, 153 units with 9 opened last year, a 95% success rate, and headquarters in Cheshire, CT.

Settings

Setting	What it does
BizBuySell URLs	Search pages, state / city / county / industry pages, filtered searches, single listings, franchise directory, categories and brand pages. Mix any number.
Keyword	Searches titles and descriptions.
States / provinces	50 states, DC and Canadian provinces.
Industries	21 industries and 190 sub-industries.
Listing types	Established businesses, asset sales, business real estate, startups.
Asking price, cash flow, revenue	Min and max for each, applied by BizBuySell's own search.
Listed / updated within the last (days), Established after	Freshness and age filters.
Seller financing, SBA pre-qualified, real estate included, home-based, absentee owner, price reduced	Keep only matching listings.
Include relocatable businesses	Adds businesses from elsewhere that can move to the searched state.
Sort by	BizBuySell default, newest, price or cash flow. With a limit, you get the top listings in this order.
Max results	Cap on saved records across everything (default 100, 0 = no limit).
Monitor mode, Monitor name	See above.
Include raw BizBuySell data	For developers: adds BizBuySell's complete original record (170+ fields).
Proxy	Apify's standard datacenter proxy works, including on free plans.

Filters also narrow pasted search URLs. They don't apply to franchise pages or single listing URLs.

See a real record

One listing from the Florida restaurants search, exactly as you'd receive it. Fields the seller didn't fill in come back empty (null).

{
    "type": "listing",
    "id": 2569692,
    "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/profitable-burger-franchise-for-sale-orlando-fl/2569692/",
    "title": "Profitable Burger Franchise for Sale – Orlando, FL",
    "tagline": "Established Turnkey Restaurant | $1.2M Annualized Revenue | 13% Profit",
    "listingType": "Established Business",
    "industry": "American Restaurants",
    "industryGroup": "Restaurants & Food",
    "secondaryIndustry": "Quick Service Restaurants",
    "askingPrice": 620000,
    "cashFlow": 226000,
    "grossRevenue": 1200000,
    "ebitda": 156000,
    "netIncome": 156000,
    "ownerCompensation": 60000,
    "priceToCashFlow": 2.74,
    "priceToEbitda": 3.97,
    "priceToRevenue": 0.52,
    "inventoryValue": 25000,
    "ffeValue": 120000,
    "realEstate": "Leased",
    "rent": 9800,
    "rentPeriod": "per month",
    "buildingSqFt": 3000,
    "yearEstablished": 2019,
    "employees": 8,
    "employeesFullTime": 4,
    "employeesPartTime": 4,
    "sellerFinancing": false,
    "sbaPrequalified": true,
    "isFranchise": true,
    "location": "Ocoee, FL",
    "streetAddress": "336 Moore Rd",
    "city": "Ocoee",
    "county": "Orange County",
    "state": "FL",
    "zip": "34761",
    "country": "US",
    "description": "Profitable Burger Franchise – $1.2M Annualized Revenue – Orlando Area\n\nAsking Price: $620,000\n\nEstablished, Profitable Restaurant – Turnkey Franchise Opportunity …",
    "facilities": "The Brave Burger is located in an approximately 2,497-square-foot space in Ocoee, Florida …",
    "reasonForSelling": "The franchisor currently owns and operates this location.",
    "website": "http://www.thebraveburger.com",
    "sellerType": "Franchisor",
    "contactName": "Sergio BoscoJunior",
    "contactPhone": "(407) 243-7553",
    "mainImage": "https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/256/2569692/47a4188a-ec93-4af7-972f-d5ede3a1a890.webp",
    "imageCount": 19,
    "adLevel": "Diamond",
    "views": 50,
    "recentlyAdded": true,
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-28T12:57:20Z",
    "rank": 1,
    "searchUrl": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/florida/restaurants-and-food-businesses-for-sale/"
}

Pay only for results

$3 per 1,000 results, full details included — no separate charge for financials, contacts or photos, and unchanged listings skipped by monitor mode are free.

Records	Cost
100	$0.30
1,000	$3.00
10,000	$30.00

Set a Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops exactly at the number of records it covers, so a run never costs more than you planned. Platform usage stays small too: no browser and no residential proxy are needed.

Good to know

• Not every number is disclosed. Sellers often leave cash flow, revenue or EBITDA blank, just as on BizBuySell; those fields come back empty.
• The cash flow filter also looks at EBITDA. When a seller doesn't disclose cash flow, BizBuySell checks EBITDA instead, so those listings are included with cash flow empty. Listings whose disclosed cash flow is outside your range are always left out.
• Startups have no location. BizBuySell shows startups in state searches without tying them to a place, so their address fields are empty.
• Confidential details stay hidden. If a seller hides the street address, city or website, so does the output.
• BizBuySell doesn't show when a listing was first posted. To find fresh deals, use the Listed within the last filter, the last-updated date, or monitor mode, which records when you first saw each listing.
• Max results is shared across every URL and filter in the run, and a listing found by several searches is saved once.
• Filters set on BizBuySell's website travel in the URL's ?q= code. The listing-type filter is always read; if BizBuySell won't translate another one, the log names it so you can set it with the filter fields instead.
• Broker directory pages aren't supported yet — but each listing already carries its broker's name, phone, brokerage and profile link.

📮 Support

Bugs, feature requests or custom scraping work — open an issue on Apify, email alkausarimujahid@gmail.com, or visit ayzalsoft.com.