# Acquire.com Scraper: Startup & SaaS Marketplace (`coolinbex/acquire-com-scraper`) Actor

Extract Acquire.com startup listings, asking prices, TTM revenue, profit, business models, tech stacks, and M\&A data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/coolinbex/acquire-com-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [coolinbex](https://apify.com/coolinbex) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Acquire.com Scraper

Apify Actor for collecting public Acquire.com startup and small-business marketplace listings. It uses Crawlee's `PlaywrightCrawler` with session pooling, optional Apify Proxy routing, authenticated headers/cookies, JSON response interception, Next.js hydration parsing, DOM fallback extraction, retries, deduplication, and numeric/business-model filters.

### Store metadata

- **Title:** `Acquire.com Scraper: Startup & SaaS Marketplace` (48 characters)
- **Description:** `Extract startup listings, TTM revenue, profit, asking price, tech stack, and M&A deal flow metrics from Acquire.com without limits.` (132 characters)
- **Categories:** Business, Financial Data, E-commerce
- **Tags:** Acquire.com, MicroAcquire, startup acquisitions, SaaS, e-commerce, marketplace, business listings, financial data, M\&A

### Run locally

```bash
npm install
npm test
npm start
```

The actor accepts search/listing URLs, price/revenue/profit ranges, business types, a maximum item count, optional authorized session credentials, and standard Apify proxy configuration through `input_schema.json`. Missing or private metrics are represented as `null`; inaccessible requests are logged by the failed-request handler rather than emitted as fabricated values.

### Output

Each dataset record contains `listingId`, `title`, `headline`, `askingPrice`, `ttmRevenue`, `ttmProfit`, `listingType`, `techStack`, `competitors`, `dateListed`, `location`, `teamSize`, `growthRate`, `url`, and `scrapedAt`. The actor logs a validation warning when a completed run produces no valid records, which allows public-only runs to finish cleanly when Acquire.com gates its directory.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Search result pages or individual public listing URLs to crawl.

## `minAskingPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only keep listings at or above this price.

## `maxAskingPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only keep listings at or below this price.

## `minRevenue` (type: `integer`):

Only keep listings at or above this TTM revenue.

## `maxRevenue` (type: `integer`):

Only keep listings at or below this TTM revenue.

## `minProfit` (type: `integer`):

Only keep listings at or above this TTM profit.

## `maxProfit` (type: `integer`):

Only keep listings at or below this TTM profit.

## `businessType` (type: `array`):

Keep only matching business models. Leave empty for all types.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of unique listing records to save.

## `sessionCookie` (type: `string`):

Optional Acquire.com cookie/header value. Use only credentials you are authorized to use.

## `authToken` (type: `string`):

Optional bearer token for an authorized Acquire.com session.

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

Residential or smart proxy routing is recommended for larger runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://acquire.com/saas-companies-for-sale/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Dataset containing scraped Acquire.com marketplace listings.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("coolinbex/acquire-com-scraper").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("coolinbex/acquire-com-scraper").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 '{}' |
apify call coolinbex/acquire-com-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,coolinbex/acquire-com-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/wicjCJdUmCcrhd7dP/builds/zzz5pC89mxZHEirXG/openapi.json