BizBuySell Scraper

BizBuySell Scraper creates a structured dataset of business-for-sale listings collected from BizBuySell. Each dataset item can include list number, title, URL, location, asking price, cash flow, EBITDA, gross revenue, broker fields, images, and listing flags. Query the source with a BizBuySell search or listing URL, or with location, industry, financial, and keyword filters. Control volume with maxItems, optionally add listing-page fields with scrapeListingDetails, and retrieve records through the Apify Dataset API or export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or another supported format. The default charge is $0.001 per listing, plus $0.001 for each listing that includes listing-page fields.

Dataset at a glance

Property	Value
Source	bizbuysell.com
Record unit	One business-for-sale listing
Input methods	Search or listing URLs, or location, industry, and financial filters
Main identifiers	listNumber, url
Delivery	Apify Dataset and API. Run counts are also written to the key-value record run-stats
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and other Apify dataset exports
Update model	Fresh records per Actor run
Pricing	Pay per event. listing $0.001. listing-extra $0.001 when listing-page fields are included

Coverage and available records

A search-result record includes the card fields: list number, title, URL, location, region, asking price, cash flow, EBITDA, gross revenue, listing type, description, images, broker company and name when shown on the card, and flags for real estate, recently added, recently updated, price reduced, and hot property. detailsScraped is false on those records.

When scrapeListingDetails is true, the same row is filled from the listing page. Additional conditional fields include broker phone, employees, facilities, competition, growth and expansion, financing, support and training, reason for selling, franchise, business website, real estate status, building square feet, lease expiration, and rent. The page’s label-value pairs are also stored in detailFields. Financial numbers from the page overwrite the card values when the page has them. detailsScraped is then true, and one listing-extra event is charged for that listing.

startUrls preserves the encoded q filter on a BizBuySell search URL. If you do not pass URLs, location accepts a state, county, or city, and industries accepts the industry labels in the input schema, including parent categories such as Travel and child labels such as Travel > Hotels. Financial filters are integer bounds for gross revenue, cash flow, asking price, and included real estate. daysListedAgo and establishedAfterYear are optional. Keyword and listing-id lists are optional. Boolean flags can hide listings without a price, hide home-based businesses, include relocatable listings, or require seller financing, included real estate, or absentee ownership.

maxItems of 0 means no item cap. The Actor does not return a historical catalog of sold or removed businesses.

Data dictionary

Deduplicate on listNumber. url is the stable listing URL when the list number is missing.

Search-card fields:

Field	Type	Nullable	Description	Example
listNumber	integer	yes	BizBuySell list number	2524127
title	string	yes	Listing title	Proven Hospitality Brokerage & Consulting-Perfect for Licensed Broker
url	string	yes	Listing URL	https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/proven-hospitality-brokerage-and-consulting-perfect-for-licensed-broker/2524127/
location	string	yes	Location text	Palm Desert, CA
region	string	yes	Region code from the card	CA
askingPrice	number	yes	Asking price as a number	299000
cashFlow	number	yes	Cash flow as a number	247802
ebitda	number	yes	EBITDA as a number	null
grossRevenue	number	yes	Gross revenue as a number	null
listingTypeId	number	yes	Listing type id from the card	40
description	string	yes	Description text	Card or page description
images	array of string	no	Image URLs	BizBuySell image URL
imageUrl	string	yes	First image URL	First images entry
brokerCompany	string	yes	Broker company from the card	null
brokerName	string	yes	Broker name	null on some cards
realEstateIncluded	boolean	yes	Real estate included in the asking price	false
recentlyAdded	boolean	yes	Recently added flag	false
recentlyUpdated	boolean	yes	Recently updated flag	true
priceReduced	boolean	yes	Price reduced flag	true
hotProperty	boolean	yes	Hot property flag	false
detailsScraped	boolean	no	true when listing-page fields were merged	false

Listing-page fields, present when scrapeListingDetails succeeds:

Field	Type	Nullable	Description
brokerPhone	string	yes	Phone shown on the broker card
employees	string	yes	Employees text
facilities	string	yes	Facilities text
competition	string	yes	Competition text
growthExpansion	string	yes	Growth and expansion text
financing	string	yes	Financing text
supportTraining	string	yes	Support and training text
reasonForSelling	string	yes	Reason for selling
franchise	string	yes	Franchise text
businessWebsite	string	yes	Business website
realEstateStatus	string	yes	Real estate text from the page
buildingSf	string	yes	Building square feet text
leaseExpiration	string	yes	Lease expiration text
rent	string	yes	Rent text
yearEstablished	number or string	yes	Year established when the financial block includes it
detailFields	object	yes	Remaining label-value pairs from the page

Money fields on the search card are numbers. Some page financial strings are parsed into those same keys. Text fields from the detail page stay strings.

Example dataset record

This is a search-card record from a prior run. scrapeListingDetails was off, so detailsScraped is false and listing-page fields are absent. The description in the saved sample was shortened.

{
  "listNumber": 2524127,
  "title": "Proven Hospitality Brokerage & Consulting-Perfect for Licensed Broker",
  "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/proven-hospitality-brokerage-and-consulting-perfect-for-licensed-broker/2524127/",
  "location": "Palm Desert, CA",
  "region": "CA",
  "askingPrice": 299000,
  "cashFlow": 247802,
  "ebitda": null,
  "grossRevenue": null,
  "listingTypeId": 40,
  "description": "This long-established hospitality brokerage and consulting business",
  "images": [
    "https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/252/2524127/21de0770-526e-43e2-a28d-30f7de6e0739-W336.webp"
  ],
  "imageUrl": "https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/252/2524127/21de0770-526e-43e2-a28d-30f7de6e0739-W336.webp",
  "brokerCompany": null,
  "brokerName": null,
  "realEstateIncluded": false,
  "recentlyAdded": false,
  "recentlyUpdated": true,
  "priceReduced": true,
  "hotProperty": false,
  "detailsScraped": false
}

The input that produced this shape was a BizBuySell search URL with scrapeListingDetails false.

Query and input reference

Input	Type	Required	Default	Accepted values	Description
startUrls	array	no	none	Request objects with a BizBuySell URL	Search or listing URLs. Encoded q values are kept
location	string	no	none	State, county, or city text	Used when startUrls is not the source
industries	array of string	no	none	Industry labels in the input schema enum	Parent or child industries
grossRevenueMin	integer	no	none	Integer	Minimum gross revenue
grossRevenueMax	integer	no	none	Integer	Maximum gross revenue
cashFlowMin	integer	no	none	Integer	Minimum cash flow
cashFlowMax	integer	no	none	Integer	Maximum cash flow
askingPriceMin	integer	no	none	Integer	Minimum asking price
askingPriceMax	integer	no	none	Integer	Maximum asking price
realEstateMin	integer	no	none	Integer	Minimum included real estate value
realEstateMax	integer	no	none	Integer	Maximum included real estate value
daysListedAgo	integer	no	none	Integer	Listed within this many days
establishedAfterYear	integer	no	none	Integer	Established after this year
keyword	string	no	none	Text	Keyword filter
listingIds	array	no	none	Listing id strings	Specific listings
hideListingsWithoutPrice	boolean	no	false	true, false	Drop listings with no price
hideHomeBasedBusinesses	boolean	no	false	true, false	Drop home-based businesses
includeRelocatableListings	boolean	no	false	true, false	Include relocatable listings
mustHaveSellerFinancing	boolean	no	false	true, false	Require seller financing
mustHaveRealEstateIncluded	boolean	no	false	true, false	Require included real estate
mustAllowAbsenteeOwner	boolean	no	false	true, false	Require absentee ownership
scrapeListingDetails	boolean	no	false	true, false	Merge listing-page fields and charge listing-extra
maxItems	integer	no	0	0 or more	Item cap. 0 means no cap
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Apify residential proxy, country US	Apify proxy object	Proxy selection

Minimal request:

{
  "location": "California",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Advanced request:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/california/travel-businesses-for-sale/"
    }
  ],
  "askingPriceMax": 1000000,
  "scrapeListingDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Retrieve the data through the API

1. Start datascrapers/bizbuysell-scraper with the JSON input.
2. Wait until the run finishes.
3. Read items from the run’s default dataset.
4. Read run-stats from the default key-value store for record counts and timestamps.

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datascrapers~bizbuysell-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"location":"California","maxItems":25}'

$curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/$DATASET_ID/items?clean=true&format=json&token=$APIFY_TOKEN"

Other languages are on the Actor’s API tab: https://apify.com/datascrapers/bizbuysell-scraper

Data quality and record handling

Financial fields are null when BizBuySell does not show them. Broker name and company are often null on the search card and may appear only after scrapeListingDetails. detailFields is a map of page labels and is conditional.

The Actor does not deduplicate across runs. Use listNumber. maxItems of 0 does not cap the run. A failed listing page leaves the card record and does not set detailsScraped to true. There is no historical snapshot unless you store the dataset.

The default proxy is Apify residential with country US.

run-stats includes recordsScraped, listingDetailsScraped, scrapeListingDetails, runStartedAt, runFinishedAt, and maxItems.

Export and pipeline examples

Destination	Recommended method	Typical use
PostgreSQL or Supabase	Dataset API or a webhook consumer	Upsert businesses on listNumber
Google Sheets	Apify integration	Review asking price and cash flow
S3 or other cloud storage	Scheduled dataset export	Archive one file per run
CRM	Webhook consumer	Send broker and listing URL fields downstream

Pricing and cost examples

Billing is pay per event. The same prices apply to Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond.

Event	Price on every plan	When it is charged
listing	$0.001	One business record. This is the primary event
listing-extra	$0.001	Once when listing-page fields are merged for that record

Records	Listing-page fields	Estimated event cost
1,000	off	$1.00
1,000	on for every record	$2.00
10,000	off	$10.00

These are the default prices set for this account. They are placeholders and can be changed in the Actor pricing settings. Estimates do not include Apify platform usage, which is billed to the user in addition to event charges.

Limitations and responsible data use

The Actor returns publicly available BizBuySell listing fields for the URLs or filters you submit. It does not guarantee every industry, state, or removed listing. Financials and broker contact values are missing on many cards. Listing-page text can change when the site changes.

Each run is a current snapshot. You are responsible for complying with privacy, contractual, and legal requirements for the records you collect and store.

Dataset questions

What does one dataset item represent?

One BizBuySell business-for-sale listing. With scrapeListingDetails enabled, the same item also carries listing-page fields.

Which field should I use as a unique identifier?

Use listNumber. Fall back to url if the list number is null.

Are fields nullable or conditional?

Yes. Price, cash flow, revenue, EBITDA, and broker fields are null when the page does not show them. Listing-page keys exist when detailsScraped is true.

Can I retrieve the records as CSV or JSON?

Yes. Export the default dataset, or call the Dataset API. Counts for the run are in the run-stats key-value record.

How do I paginate large datasets?

Set maxItems above 0 to cap a run, or leave it at 0 for no cap. Page the dataset afterward with offset and limit.

Does the Actor return historical data?

No. Each run returns the listings available for that query at run time.

What counts as a billable result?

Each listing charges one listing event at $0.001. Each listing that receives listing-page fields also charges one listing-extra event at $0.001. Platform usage is separate.

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Data Scrapers support

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