# Website Closers Scraper (`crawlerbros/website-closers-scraper`) Actor Scrape WebsiteClosers.com business-for-sale listings - asking price, cash flow, gross income, year established, category, broker, and full descriptions for e-commerce, SaaS, agency, and other online business acquisitions. - **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/website-closers-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, E-commerce, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $3.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Website Closers Scraper Scrape **WebsiteClosers.com** — a business brokerage marketplace listing established e-commerce, SaaS, agency, Amazon FBA, and other online/offline businesses for sale. Browse all live listings, filter by one of 67 industry categories, run a keyword search, or look up specific listings by URL. Get asking price, cash flow, gross income, year established, broker information, and full descriptions. HTTP-only, no auth, no login wall. ### What this actor does - **Five modes:** `browse` (all live listings), `byCategory` (67 industry categories), `search` (keyword), `closedDeals` (historical sold archive), `byUrls` (direct lookup) - **Financial filters:** asking price, cash flow, gross income (revenue), year-established, and employee-count ranges - **Full listing detail:** description, financials table, broker/representation info, listing photo - **Empty fields are omitted** — a record never contains `null`, `""`, or `[]` ### Output per business listing - `listingId` — WebsiteClosers.com numeric listing ID - `title` — full listing headline - `description` — full business description (multi-paragraph) - `askingPrice`, `cashFlow`, `grossIncome` — USD, where disclosed - `yearEstablished` — year the business was founded - `employees` — headcount, where the broker discloses it - `status` — `Available` or `Closed` - `category`, `categoryName` — industry slug + friendly name (mode=byCategory only) - `brokerTeam`, `brokerCode` — the WebsiteClosers team representing the listing (e.g. `WC 4062`) - `postedBy` — the individual broker credited on category archive pages, when shown - `datePublished` — ISO date the listing was published - `imageUrl` — listing photo - `sourceUrl` — canonical listing detail URL - `recordType: "businessListing"`, `scrapedAt` ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `mode` | string | `browse` | `browse` / `byCategory` / `search` / `closedDeals` / `byUrls` | | `category` | string | `ecommerce-online-retail` | Industry category (mode=byCategory) — one of 67 | | `searchQuery` | string | – | Keyword to search (mode=search) | | `listingUrls` | array | – | Direct listing URLs to fetch (mode=byUrls) | | `minAskingPrice` / `maxAskingPrice` | int | – | Asking price range, USD | | `minCashFlow` / `maxCashFlow` | int | – | Annual cash flow range, USD | | `minGrossIncome` | int | – | Minimum annual gross revenue, USD | | `minYearEstablished` | int | – | Drop listings established before this year | | `minEmployees` / `maxEmployees` | int | – | Employee headcount range | | `maxItems` | int | `50` | Hard cap on emitted records (1-2000) | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy | Not required for this target; left available for resilience | #### Example: browse all live listings over $1M cash flow ```json { "mode": "browse", "minCashFlow": 1000000, "maxItems": 30 } ```` #### Example: browse SaaS businesses for sale ```json { "mode": "byCategory", "category": "software-saas", "maxItems": 25 } ``` #### Example: keyword search ```json { "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "Amazon FBA", "maxItems": 20 } ``` #### Example: small owner-operated businesses (under 5 employees) ```json { "mode": "browse", "maxEmployees": 5, "maxItems": 25 } ``` #### Example: lookup specific listings by URL ```json { "mode": "byUrls", "listingUrls": [ "https://www.websiteclosers.com/businesses/sba-pre-qualified-luxury-resale-business-2-luxury-brands-17-year-business-experienced-staff-in-place-33-yoy-profit-growth/119151/" ] } ``` ### Use cases - **Buy-side deal sourcing** — bulk-export live listings to screen against acquisition criteria - **Market research** — track asking-price and cash-flow trends across industry categories - **Competitive intelligence** — monitor which business types are actively being brokered - **Valuation benchmarking** — compare asking price to cash flow/revenue multiples across a category - **Deal-flow alerting** — re-run on a schedule and diff against a previous dataset for new listings ### FAQ **What is the data source?** WebsiteClosers.com, a business brokerage marketplace. This actor is an independent, third-party scraper and is not affiliated with or endorsed by WebsiteClosers. **Are asking price and cash flow always available?** Most live listings disclose an asking price; cash flow, gross income, year established, and employee count are shown when the broker has disclosed them. Fields the source doesn't disclose are simply omitted from the record, never filled with a placeholder. **Why don't listings show a location or state?** WebsiteClosers does not publish a location field on individual listing pages (consistent with buyer-confidentiality practices in business brokerage) — no site-side location filter exists to expose. **Does the site's own sort/price-filter dropdown work?** No — the sort and price-range widgets on the live browse page are not wired to a working server-side or AJAX endpoint (verified against fresh, uncached responses). This actor instead applies `minAskingPrice`/`maxAskingPrice`/`minCashFlow`/`maxCashFlow`/`minGrossIncome`/`minYearEstablished` filters after fetching each listing's real financials, which is more reliable. **What's in `closedDeals` mode?** A historical archive of deals that have already sold/closed. Most closed-deal detail pages remain live and still disclose the original asking price, cash flow, gross income, and employee count. **How many listings are there?** Roughly 259 live listings across 67 categories at any given time, plus a much larger historical closed-deals archive. **How fresh is the data?** Each run fetches the live site directly — there is no caching layer, so results reflect the current state of the marketplace. # Actor input Schema ## `mode` (type: `string`): What to fetch. ## `category` (type: `string`): Business industry/category to browse. ## `searchQuery` (type: `string`): Keyword to search listing titles/descriptions for (e.g. `Amazon FBA`, `SaaS`, `agency`). ## `listingUrls` (type: `array`): Direct WebsiteClosers.com listing detail URLs to fetch. ## `minAskingPrice` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with an asking price below this amount. ## `maxAskingPrice` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with an asking price above this amount. ## `minCashFlow` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with annual cash flow below this amount. ## `maxCashFlow` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with annual cash flow above this amount. ## `minGrossIncome` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with annual gross revenue below this amount. ## `minYearEstablished` (type: `integer`): Drop listings established before this year. ## `minEmployees` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with fewer employees than this (where the business discloses an employee count). ## `maxEmployees` (type: `integer`): Drop listings with more employees than this (where the business discloses an employee count). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Hard cap on emitted records. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Not required — WebsiteClosers.com serves listings without anti-bot protection. Left available for resilience. ## Actor input object example ```json { "mode": "browse", "category": "ecommerce-online-retail", "searchQuery": "ecommerce", "listingUrls": [], "maxItems": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `listings` (type: `string`): Dataset containing all scraped WebsiteClosers.com business 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "mode": "browse", "category": "ecommerce-online-retail", "searchQuery": "ecommerce", "listingUrls": [], "maxItems": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/website-closers-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "mode": "browse", "category": "ecommerce-online-retail", "searchQuery": "ecommerce", "listingUrls": [], "maxItems": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("crawlerbros/website-closers-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "mode": "browse", "category": "ecommerce-online-retail", "searchQuery": "ecommerce", "listingUrls": [], "maxItems": 20, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call crawlerbros/website-closers-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=crawlerbros/website-closers-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Website Closers Scraper", "description": "Scrape WebsiteClosers.com business-for-sale listings - asking price, cash flow, gross income, year established, category, broker, and full descriptions for e-commerce, SaaS, agency, and other online business acquisitions.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "b8768udqRUAYvbB7K" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/crawlerbros~website-closers-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-crawlerbros-website-closers-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/crawlerbros~website-closers-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-crawlerbros-website-closers-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/crawlerbros~website-closers-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-crawlerbros-website-closers-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "mode" ], "properties": { "mode": { "title": "Mode", "enum": [ "browse", "byCategory", "search", "closedDeals", "byUrls" ], "type": "string", "description": "What to fetch.", "default": "browse" }, "category": { "title": "Industry category (mode=byCategory)", "enum": [ "advertising-marketing", "agricultural", "ai-machine-learning", "animals-pet-care", "apparel-accessories", "appliances", "art-collectibles-galleries", "automotive", "aviation-aerospace", "beauty-health-wellness", "building-materials", "business-consulting-coaching", "business-services", "communications-telecom", "computer-it-managed-services", "construction-contracting", "consumer-products", "content-media-publishing", "ecommerce-online-retail", "education-elearning", "electrical-lighting", "engineering-technical-services", "entertainment-events", "equipment-sales-service", "financial-services", "fitness-sports-recreation", "flooring-home-improvement", "flowers-gifts-decor", "food-beverage", "furniture-home-goods", "glass-windows-doors", "hardware-retail", "home-services-hvac-plumbing-etc", "industrial-manufacturing", "interior-design-staging", "internet-web-services", "jewelry-luxury-goods", "legal-professional-services", "mail-order-subscription-boxes", "marine-boating", "marketing-agencies-digital-traditional", "medical-dental-healthcare", "metal-plastics-components", "miscellaneous-other", "mobile-apps-platforms", "music-audio-production", "office-b2b-supplies", "optical-eyewear", "packaging-fulfillment", "professional-practices", "property-management-real-estate-services", "publishing-media", "recreation-outdoor", "rental-businesses", "sales-marketing-services", "security-fire-protection", "software-saas", "staffing-hr-services", "technology-electronics", "telecommunications", "toys-games-hobby", "transportation-trucking", "travel-tourism-hospitality", "warehousing-fulfillment", "water-pool-services", "websites-marketplaces-digital-assets", "wholesale-distribution" ], "type": "string", "description": "Business industry/category to browse.", "default": "ecommerce-online-retail" }, "searchQuery": { "title": "Search query (mode=search)", "type": "string", "description": "Keyword to search listing titles/descriptions for (e.g. `Amazon FBA`, `SaaS`, `agency`)." }, "listingUrls": { "title": "Listing URLs (mode=byUrls)", "type": "array", "description": "Direct WebsiteClosers.com listing detail URLs to fetch.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "minAskingPrice": { "title": "Min asking price (USD)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 500000000, "type": "integer", "description": "Drop listings with an asking price below this amount." }, "maxAskingPrice": { "title": "Max asking price (USD)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 500000000, "type": "integer", "description": "Drop listings with an asking price above this 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