Flippa Business Listings Scraper

Export public Flippa online-business listings for acquisition sourcing, valuation research, and recurring market monitoring.

The Actor turns Flippa search results into typed dataset rows with asking price, monthly revenue and profit, traffic signals, asset type, category, sale status, multiples, verification flags, and the canonical listing URL.

It works with guided filters or existing flippa.com/search URLs. No Flippa login or private seller data is required.

What can this Flippa scraper do?

• Search open or recently sold Flippa listings.
• Cover websites, SaaS, ecommerce stores, Amazon businesses, apps, domains, and other supported asset types.
• Filter by price and public monthly profit.
• Request verified-revenue or verified-traffic listings.
• Preserve filters from a supplied Flippa search URL.
• Follow result pages until maxItems is reached.
• Deduplicate listings by stable Flippa listing ID.
• Export structured JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or Parquet through Apify datasets.
• Support scheduled runs for recurring acquisition pipelines.

The Actor reads the public server-rendered search state instead of using Flippa's authenticated API. This keeps the default workflow HTTP-only and lightweight.

Who is it for?

Acquisition entrepreneurs

Build a shortlist of online businesses that match budget, profit, category, and verification requirements.

Search funds and brokers

Collect a repeatable feed of public digital-business opportunities and compare asking prices or valuation multiples.

Market analysts

Study category mix, revenue, profit, traffic, and pricing across current or recently sold listings.

Data and automation teams

Send stable listing IDs and source URLs to a spreadsheet, warehouse, CRM, webhook, or change-detection pipeline.

What data does it extract?

Field group	Example fields
Identity	listingId, listingUrl, title, summary
Classification	propertyType, category, monetization
Price	price, displayPrice, originalPrice, priceDropped
Financials	monthlyRevenue, monthlyProfit, trailingTwelveMonthRevenue
Traffic	monthlyUniqueVisitors, annualOrganicTraffic, verifiedTraffic
Sale state	status, saleMethod, bidCount, openToOffers, underOffer
Valuation	profitMultiple, revenueMultiple
Verification	verifiedRevenue, verifiedTraffic, manuallyVetted
Seller context	sellerLocation, superSeller, brokerSeller
Provenance	sourceSearchUrl, scrapedAt

Values are returned only when Flippa displays them in the public search result. Confidential listings can therefore contain null financial or traffic fields.

How to scrape Flippa listings

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Keep the default business types or choose narrower asset types.
3. Select Open or Recently sold.
4. Add price, profit, or verification filters if needed.
5. Set the maximum number of listings.
6. Click Start.
7. Open the Dataset tab to preview or export the records.
8. Save the task and add a schedule for recurring monitoring.

A useful first run is:

{
  "propertyTypes": ["website", "saas", "ecommerce_store"],
  "status": "open",
  "sortBy": "most_relevant",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Input parameters

Input	Type	Default	Purpose
startUrls	array	empty	Public flippa.com/search URLs whose filters should be reused
propertyTypes	string array	website, SaaS, ecommerce	Asset types to request
status	string	open	open or recently sold (won) listings
saleMethods	string array	all	Auction and/or classified listings
minPrice	number	empty	Minimum displayed price in USD
maxPrice	number	empty	Maximum displayed price in USD
minMonthlyProfit	number	empty	Minimum public average monthly profit
maxMonthlyProfit	number	empty	Maximum public average monthly profit
verifiedRevenueOnly	boolean	false	Request listings marked with verified revenue
verifiedTrafficOnly	boolean	false	Request listings marked with verified traffic
sortBy	string	most_relevant	Relevance or newest-first ordering
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum unique records, from 1 to 10,000
proxyConfiguration	object	disabled	Optional Apify Proxy settings

When both startUrls and guided filters are supplied, the guided filters override matching URL parameters. This makes saved tasks predictable.

Only public Flippa search URLs are accepted. Individual listing, login, account, and private API URLs fail with a clear input error.

Output example

A current public result is normalized like this:

{
  "listingId": "12857417",
  "listingUrl": "https://flippa.com/12857417",
  "title": "Profitable B2B SaaS for fitness coaches",
  "propertyType": "SaaS",
  "category": "Health and Beauty",
  "monetization": "Services & Subscriptions",
  "price": 436829,
  "displayPrice": "USD $436,829",
  "monthlyRevenue": 16671,
  "monthlyProfit": 13202,
  "monthlyUniqueVisitors": 511,
  "verifiedRevenue": false,
  "verifiedTraffic": true,
  "profitMultiple": 2.8,
  "revenueMultiple": 2.2,
  "status": "open",
  "saleMethod": "classified",
  "sellerLocation": "France",
  "sourceSearchUrl": "https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=saas",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-31T20:25:03.094Z"
}

Titles and metrics change as sellers update listings. Treat the example as a shape demonstration, not a promise that this listing remains available.

How much does it cost to extract Flippa business listings?

Pay-per-event pricing has two parts:

• Start: $0.005 once per run.
• Item: one event for each unique listing saved.

Current item tiers are:

Plan	Price per listing
Free	$0.00092
Bronze	$0.00080
Silver	$0.000624
Gold	$0.00048
Platinum	$0.00032
Diamond	$0.000224

At the Bronze tier, 20 listings cost about $0.021 including the start event. One hundred listings cost about $0.085. One thousand listings cost about $0.805.

Failed requests and duplicates are not charged as item events. Apify platform usage may be billed separately according to your plan and proxy settings.

Build an acquisition sourcing workflow

A practical recurring workflow is:

1. Create one task for each target segment, such as SaaS or ecommerce.
2. Apply budget and monthly-profit thresholds.
3. Schedule each task daily or weekly.
4. Use listingId as the stable key in your destination.
5. Compare price, status, and financial fields with the prior run.
6. Notify an analyst when a new listing or price change appears.

The Actor emits snapshots. It does not maintain history or send alerts itself; use Apify schedules, webhooks, and your destination to implement those steps.

Monitor recently sold business comps

Set status to won and sortBy to most_recent to collect public recently sold records.

{
  "propertyTypes": ["website", "ecommerce_store"],
  "status": "won",
  "sortBy": "most_recent",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Sold listings can help build directional comparable sets. They are not formal valuations, and some public fields may be hidden or unavailable.

Use a Flippa search URL

Copy a filtered URL from Flippa and provide it in startUrls:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://flippa.com/search?filter%5Bproperty_type%5D=saas&filter%5Bstatus%5D=open" }
  ],
  "minMonthlyProfit": 500,
  "maxItems": 50
}

The Actor preserves supported query filters, applies explicit input filters, and advances the page[number] parameter.

Export and integrations

Every run writes to the default Apify dataset. From the Dataset tab you can:

• download JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or Parquet;
• call the dataset API from a data pipeline;
• connect Google Sheets through an Apify integration;
• trigger a webhook after a successful run;
• send rows to Make, Zapier, n8n, or a custom service;
• load snapshots into BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, or another warehouse.

Use listingId for upserts and scrapedAt for snapshot timing.

Run through the Apify API with cURL

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~flippa-business-listings-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"propertyTypes":["saas"],"status":"open","maxItems":20}'

To wait for the run and retrieve output in one request, use the synchronous dataset-items endpoint supported by the Apify API.

Run with JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/flippa-business-listings-scraper').call({
  propertyTypes: ['saas'],
  status: 'open',
  minMonthlyProfit: 500,
  maxItems: 20,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Run with Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
import os

client = ApifyClient(os.environ['APIFY_TOKEN'])
run = client.actor('automation-lab/flippa-business-listings-scraper').call(run_input={
    'propertyTypes': ['website', 'ecommerce_store'],
    'status': 'won',
    'sortBy': 'most_recent',
    'maxItems': 25,
})
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items
print(items)

Use with MCP and AI agents

Add the Actor-scoped Apify MCP endpoint to Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http apify \
  "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/flippa-business-listings-scraper"

For Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code, add this MCP JSON configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/flippa-business-listings-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• “Use the Flippa Business Listings Scraper to return 20 open SaaS listings with at least $500 monthly profit.”
• “Collect the newest 25 recently sold website and ecommerce listings, then summarize price and profit multiples.”
• “Export verified-traffic Flippa businesses below $100,000 and group them by category.”

Reliability and retries

The Actor uses Flippa's public server-rendered search state.

• Direct HTTP is the default and avoids unnecessary proxy transfer.
• Transient rate limits, network failures, and server errors receive bounded retries.
• Optional proxy mode uses a fresh session identity on retry.
• Challenge pages, invalid state, and unsupported URLs fail loudly instead of returning misleading empty datasets.
• Pagination stops at source exhaustion or maxItems.
• Records are deduplicated across multiple search URLs.

If Flippa changes its public search state, a run can fail until the parser is updated.

Is it legal to scrape Flippa business listings?

This Actor extracts public marketplace information visible without signing in.

• It does not bypass NDAs, subscriptions, accounts, or confidential-detail gates.
• Confidential listings may expose only the limited fields Flippa shows publicly.
• It does not provide seller emails, private documents, or due-diligence materials.
• Data can change between runs and should be verified on the canonical listing page.
• High-frequency collection may trigger source rate limits.
• Respect Flippa's terms, robots guidance, applicable laws, and personal-data obligations.

You are responsible for your collection frequency, storage, and downstream use.

Troubleshooting

Why are some revenue or traffic fields null?

Flippa does not display every metric for every public result. Confidential listings and unverified seller submissions often omit fields. Null means unavailable in the public search result, not zero.

Why did my run return no records?

Review the combined asset, status, price, profit, and verification filters. Try the same URL in a browser and relax one threshold at a time.

Why did the Actor reject my URL?

Only flippa.com/search URLs are supported. Use the guided filters for broad discovery. Individual listing and account pages are intentionally rejected.

Should I enable a proxy?

Usually no. Direct mode is the supported default. Enable an Apify Proxy only when your environment requires it or direct requests receive a source challenge.

FAQ

Does it require a Flippa account?

No. The Actor reads only public search-result data.

Can it scrape individual listing details?

No. It exports the public fields shown in Flippa search results and links to the canonical listing. It does not enter confidential or account-gated detail flows.

Can it monitor changes?

Yes, as part of an Apify workflow. Schedule recurring task runs and compare snapshots by listingId. The Actor itself does not retain history or send alerts.

Does maxItems apply to each URL?

No. It is the total unique-record limit across all supplied search URLs.

Are monetary fields always USD?

The normalized numeric price reflects the USD value displayed by the public Flippa search result. Keep displayPrice for the exact source-formatted label.

Is this an official Flippa product?

No. This is an independent Actor and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Flippa.

Related automation-lab Actors

For wider acquisition sourcing, combine this Actor with other public business-marketplace datasets from the automation-lab portfolio in Apify Store. Keep each source in a separate task, then normalize stable IDs, prices, revenue, profit, and source URLs in your downstream pipeline.

Support

If a run fails, include the run URL, sanitized input, and the failing search URL in an Apify issue. Do not include credentials, private seller documents, or personal information.