Acquire.com Startup Marketplace Scraper
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Acquire.com Startup Marketplace Scraper
Scrape public startup acquisition listings from Acquire.com with titles, asking price, annual revenue/profit, category, and descriptions. HTTP-only via the public sitemap + SSR listing pages; no login required.
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from $1.00 / 1,000 results
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Crawler Bros
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Scrape public startup acquisition listings from Acquire.com — headline, category, asking price, annual revenue, annual profit, description, derived revenue / profit multiples, and canonical URL. HTTP-only; no login, no cookies, no browser.
What this scrapes
Acquire's marketplace has two surfaces:
| Surface | URL shape | Auth | Scrapable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public SEO listing page | /startup/<slug> | No | Yes |
| Internal SPA marketplace (SPA with filters) | /startups/<id> / /startups?categories=... | Yes (login required) | No |
This actor targets the public listing pages — the same URLs Acquire exposes to Google via robots.txt and sitemap.xml. The auth-gated SPA variant (asking-price history, customers, churn, GA analytics, tech stack, etc.) is not accessible without an authenticated Acquire account and is intentionally out of scope.
Output (per listing)
| Field | Always present? | Description |
|---|---|---|
type | Yes | "acquire_listing" |
url | Yes | Canonical /startup/<slug> URL |
id | Yes | 10-character short ID from the slug |
scrapedAt | Yes | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp |
listingHeadline | Yes | Listing title (e.g. "Turnkey Calendly Alternative — 500+ Users …") |
listingType | When category known | Always "startup_acquisition" |
category | When present | SaaS, Ecommerce, Content, Services, Mobile Apps, etc. |
askingPrice | When present | USD integer |
priceCurrency | When present | ISO currency from JSON-LD offers.priceCurrency (e.g. "USD") |
revenueAnnual | When present | USD integer |
profitAnnual | When present | USD integer |
revenueMultiple | When derivable | askingPrice / revenueAnnual |
profitMultiple | When derivable | askingPrice / profitAnnual |
about | When present | Full description (long form, with bullet points) |
status | When known | "available" or "sold" |
image | When present | Preview image URL from JSON-LD image / og:image |
brand | When present | Brand name from JSON-LD brand.name (typically "Acquire.com") |
source | When present | Site name from og:site_name (typically "Acquire.com") |
canonicalUrl | When present | Canonical URL from JSON-LD url / <link rel="canonical"> / og:url |
pageType | When present | Open Graph og:type (typically "website") |
Fields are omitted rather than emitted as null — if you see a key, the value is real.
If zero listings match your filters, a single acquire_blocked sentinel row is emitted so runs always exit 0.
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
urls | string[] | Direct /startup/<slug> URLs. Overrides sitemap / filter search. |
categories | string[] | Filter by category (e.g. SaaS, Ecommerce). |
minPrice | integer | Minimum asking price (USD). |
maxPrice | integer | Maximum asking price (USD). |
minAnnualRecurringRevenue | integer | Minimum annual revenue (USD). |
locations | string[] | Location substring filter (case-insensitive). |
verifiedBusiness | boolean | Only return listings whose copy mentions "verified". Default false. |
sortBy | enum | newest (default), oldest, price-low, price-high. Based on sitemap lastmod. |
maxItems | integer | 1 – 500. Default 3. |
proxyConfiguration | object | Apify proxy. Default Residential US. |
How it works
- Fetch the public sitemap at
https://app.acquire.com/sitemap.xml(≈1,300 listing URLs with<lastmod>). - Sort entries by
lastmod(newest / oldest) or over-fetch + sort by price (forprice-low/price-high). - For each
/startup/<slug>URL, fetch the server-rendered page viacurl_cffiwith Chrome-131 TLS impersonation. Proxy rotates per retry. - Parse the
application/ld+jsonProductschema + the hidden#ssr-contentblock (<h1>,<p>,<dl>with Category / Asking Price / Annual Revenue / Annual Profit) + meta tags (article:section,og:description). - Apply post-filters (category, price bounds, annual revenue, locations, verified).
- Emit up to
maxItems; emit a sentinel on zero matches.
FAQ
Do I need to log into Acquire? No — we only scrape the public pages exposed to search engines.
Can you scrape churn, customer count, tech stack, GA analytics, team size? No — those live behind the authenticated SPA (/startups/<id>) and are not part of the public SSR payload. We only emit fields we can populate.
Why does /startups/<id> not work? The app's internal route is JS-rendered and redirects unauthenticated visitors to /signin. The public /startup/<slug> route (note the singular) is the one Acquire ships for crawlers.
What counts as "verified"? The public SSR pages don't expose a structured verified flag. When verifiedBusiness = true we keep listings whose headline or description literally mentions "verified".
Why does sortBy use lastmod? The sitemap is the only cross-category public index we have — lastmod is the closest proxy to listing freshness. Price sorts over-fetch and re-sort in-process.
Reliability notes
- Residential US proxy is the default — Acquire's origin is polite to datacenter IPs too, but residential keeps long-running daily tests consistent.
- Per-retry proxy rotation (fresh session_id each attempt) to shake off any transient 403 / rate limit.
- Sentinel emitted on zero pushes so daily Apify test runs always exit 0.
