BizQuest Franchises For Sale Scraper

Scrape franchise opportunities for sale from BizQuest and export them to JSON, CSV, or Excel — no code required. Free and Premium (paying) Apify accounts get different run limits — see the comparison below before you configure Locations, Industries, or Investment amounts.

What does BizQuest Franchises For Sale Scraper do?

BizQuest Franchises For Sale Scraper extracts franchise brand listings from BizQuest's franchise directory, the franchise-opportunities section of one of the largest business-for-sale marketplaces in the United States. It returns roughly 1,877 franchise brands, each with investment figures — minimum liquid capital, franchise fee, total investment range — unit counts, and the list of US states (and Canada) where the franchise is currently available. Just click Run to pull the whole catalog, or narrow it down with location, industry, and investment filters first.

Free vs Premium: what's the difference?

This Actor checks whether your Apify account is on a free or paid (Premium) plan and automatically caps cost-driving inputs on free runs. The reason is simple: Locations, Industries, and Investment amounts all combine as a cartesian product — pick 3 locations and 2 industries and the run has to walk 6 separate BizQuest listing-page combinations instead of 1. A free run is limited to a single filter combination ("one facet") per input so it can't multiply into an expensive crawl; a paid run has no such ceiling.

Limit	Free plan	Premium (paid) plan
Maximum franchises (maxItems)	50 franchises max	Unlimited (0 = whole catalog, ~1,877 brands)
Locations	1 location	All 52 (Canada + 50 US states + Washington DC)
Industries	1 industry	All 25
Investment amounts	1 investment bracket	All 19
Start URLs	1 start URL	Unlimited
Maximum concurrency	5 concurrent requests	Up to 50

If you select more than the free-plan cap allows — say 3 locations and 2 industries — the Actor silently keeps only the first item(s) it's allowed to use and logs exactly what it reduced, so you're never left guessing why your run returned less than expected:

Free plan reduced your input: locations 3 -> 1; industries 2 -> 1

Every input field below that carries a free-plan cap says so explicitly in its description. Upgrading to a paid Apify plan removes all six limits — you can then combine every location, industry, and investment bracket at once, or scrape the entire ~1,877-brand catalog in a single unlimited run.

Why use BizQuest Franchises For Sale Scraper?

• Franchise brokers building prospect and lead lists can pull every brand available in a given state or investment bracket instead of clicking through BizQuest's directory by hand.
• Investors comparing brackets can filter by investment amount to see which brands fit a target liquid-capital range before reaching out to any of them.
• Market researchers tracking unit growth can capture total_units, franchised_units, and company_owned_units on a schedule and watch how a brand's footprint changes over time.

How to use BizQuest Franchises For Sale Scraper

1. Open the Actor in the Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. Pick filters — Locations, Industries, Investment amounts — or leave all three empty to scrape the entire catalog. Remember: on a free plan, only the first value picked in each field is used.
3. Set Maximum franchises to a small number like 10 for a first test run, or 0 for no limit (unlimited requires a paid plan; free runs are capped at 50 regardless).
4. Click Run.
5. When the run finishes, open the Output tab and export your results as JSON, CSV, HTML, or Excel, or pull them through the Apify API.

Input

Every field is optional and pre-filled with a working default. Fields marked Free plan cap are automatically clamped down when the run is made from a free (non-paying) Apify account.

Field	Description	Default	Free plan cap
Locations	Only return franchises available in these US states (or Canada). Leave empty for all of them.	[] (all)	1 location
Industries	Only return franchises in these BizQuest categories, such as Pet or Food & Restaurant. Some options are attributes rather than sectors — Home Based, Veteran's, SBA Approved, Cheap Franchises, Top Franchises, High Capital, Master Franchises, and Multi Unit.	[] (all)	1 industry
Investment amounts	Only return franchises within these investment brackets. Each bracket is an upper bound, so $50,000 means franchises costing up to $50,000, ranging from "Less than $10,000" up to "$500,000 +".	[] (all)	1 bracket
Start URLs	Specific BizQuest franchise listing pages to scrape directly, instead of relying on the filters above.	[]	1 URL
Maximum franchises	Stop the run once this many franchises have been collected. 0 means no limit — the full catalog of roughly 1,877 brands.	100	50 franchises
Delay between requests	Seconds to pause between page requests. Raise this if the run starts logging HTTP 403 errors.	0	—
Maximum concurrency	How many pages to fetch at the same time. Lower this together with raising the delay if you hit HTTP 403 errors.	10	5 concurrent requests
Proxy configuration	Not needed for normal runs. Enable only for repeated full-catalog scrapes or if you see HTTP 403 errors.	Apify Proxy off	—

Locations, Industries, and Investment amounts combine — picking Texas and Pet returns pet franchises available in Texas. That combination is exactly why the free-plan caps exist: each extra filter selection multiplies how many listing pages the run has to walk.

Output

Each franchise brand is stored as one dataset item. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

{
  "franchise_id": 16200,
  "name": "Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming",
  "url": "https://www.bizquest.com/woof-gang-bakery-and-grooming-franchise-for-sale/",
  "min_liquid_capital": 100000,
  "investment_min": 184420,
  "investment_max": 506620,
  "total_units": 288,
  "headquarters": "Orlando, FL",
  "available_states": ["AL", "NE", "NV", "NH", "..."],
  "franchised_in_canada": false,
  "training_and_support": true,
  "financing_available": true,
  "extraction_datetime": "2026-08-08T04:53:45.378140+00:00",
  "extraction_date": "08-08-2026"
}

Data fields

Field	Description
franchise_id	BizQuest's internal numeric ID for the brand
name	Franchise brand name
slug	URL slug used on BizQuest
url	Direct link to the franchise's listing page
description	Short brand description
categories	Industry categories the brand is listed under
min_liquid_capital	Minimum liquid capital required, in USD
min_franchise_fee	Franchise fee, in USD
net_worth_required	Minimum net worth required, in USD
investment_min / investment_max	Total investment range, in USD
total_units	Total number of units (locations)
franchised_units	Number of franchisee-owned units
company_owned_units	Number of company-owned units
new_units_opened	New units opened, when disclosed
average_unit_revenue	Average revenue per unit, when disclosed
franchising_since	Year the brand started franchising
headquarters	Headquarters city and state
website	Brand's own website
available_states	US states (and Canada) where the franchise is currently available
franchised_in_canada	Whether the brand franchises into Canada
training_and_support	Whether training and support are offered
financing_available	Whether financing options are offered
multi_units	Whether multi-unit ownership is offered
logo	Brand logo image URL
latest_data_year	Year the financial figures were reported for
extraction_datetime	UTC timestamp when the item was extracted (ISO 8601)
extraction_date	Extraction date in mm-dd-yyyy format

How much does a BizQuest franchise scrape take?

The full BizQuest franchise catalog is about 1,877 brand pages, one request each, so a complete run makes a predictable, bounded number of requests regardless of which filters you apply — filters just narrow which pages get fetched. A quick test run with Maximum franchises set to 10 finishes in well under a minute. A free-plan run, capped to a single location, industry, and investment bracket combination and 50 franchises, finishes even faster. Set Maximum franchises on your first run to see exactly how long a full-size run takes before committing to one.

Tips

• Leave every filter empty to take the fastest path to the whole catalog: with no Locations, Industries, or Investment amounts set, the Actor reads BizQuest's own franchise sitemap in a single request instead of walking filtered listing pages one by one. (On a free plan this still returns only the first 50 franchises found.)
• Raise the delay and lower the concurrency if you start seeing HTTP 403 errors in the run log — that means BizQuest is throttling your IP. Free-plan runs are already capped at 5 concurrent requests for this reason.
• Combine filters deliberately. Locations, Industries, and Investment amounts all combine with each other, so picking several of each can multiply the number of listing pages the run has to fetch — which is exactly what the free-plan single-facet cap prevents.
• Watch the run log for "Free plan reduced your input" — it tells you precisely which fields got clamped and from what to what, so nothing is silently dropped without explanation.
• Apify's scheduling and integrations — available to any Actor on the platform, not built into this one — let you run this scraper on a recurring schedule and pipe fresh results into Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, or a webhook straight from the Apify Console.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

What's the difference between free and paid runs of this Actor? Free (non-paying) Apify accounts get one location, one industry, one investment bracket, one start URL, up to 50 franchises, and 5 concurrent requests per run. Paid accounts have none of those caps — see the Free vs Premium table above for the full breakdown and the reasoning behind each limit.

Is it legal to scrape BizQuest? This Actor collects only publicly available franchise-listing data. Scraping legality depends on your jurisdiction and how you use the data — review BizQuest's Terms of Service and take your own legal advice before commercial use.

Does this Actor collect personal data? No. It extracts only franchise-brand and investment data — no broker names, no executive or CEO names, and no phone numbers. BizQuest's underlying data does include a CEO name field, but this Actor deliberately never emits it, so no dataset item ever contains it.

Does this Actor schedule runs or resume interrupted crawls on its own? No — each run is a single, self-contained scrape from start to finish. Scheduling, monitoring, and third-party integrations are features of the Apify platform itself, available to any Actor you run there.

Found a bug, or need a field this Actor does not extract yet? Open a ticket in the Issues tab on the Actor's page.