Flippa Search Scraper | Fast & Reliable | $5 / 1K

What is Flippa Scraper?

Flippa Scraper is a powerful tool that allows you to extract detailed data about digital businesses for sale from Flippa.com. To get the data, simply provide a search keyword (e.g., "SaaS" or "e-commerce blog") and let the actor do the hard work.

This actor will navigate through the search result pages, collecting key information from each business listing it finds, allowing you to analyze the market and find investment opportunities at scale.

What data can you extract?

With this Flippa API, you will be able to extract the following data from each business listing:

🔗 Listing URL: The direct link to the business listing on Flippa.

💰 Asking Price: The listed price for the business (as a number).

📈 Monthly Net Profit: The seller-reported net profit per month (as a number).

📝 Description & Category: The short description and category of the business.

✅ Verification Status: Indicates if the listing is verified by Flippa.

📊 Business Details: Key data points like Type, Industry, Monetization model, and Site Age.

🕒 Scrape Timestamp: The exact time the data was extracted.

Why scrape Flippa?

Scraping Flippa.com can provide invaluable data for various purposes:

💸 Find Investment Opportunities: Systematically scan thousands of listings to find undervalued digital assets, whether they are websites, apps, or SaaS businesses.

🔬 Conduct Market Research: Analyze trends in business valuations, popular monetization models, and profitable niches. Understand what types of businesses are selling and for how much.

🤺 Perform Competitive Analysis: Keep an eye on the market and see what similar businesses to yours are valued at.

📈 Build Datasets for Analysis: Create custom datasets for financial modeling or trend analysis on the buying and selling of online businesses.

How do I use Flippa Scraper?

Flippa Scraper was designed to be easy to use, even if you've never extracted web data before.

Create a free Apify account using your email.

Open Flippa Scraper.

Add a search keyword (e.g., ai chatbot) to find listings.

Click the "Start" button and wait for the data to be extracted.

Download your data in JSON, Excel, CSV, or other formats.

Input

The input for Flippa Scraper is simple. You only need to provide a search query.

Field Type Description searchQuery String A keyword to search for on Flippa (e.g., 'e-commerce'). Used if Start URLs are empty. startUrls Array (Optional) A list of full Flippa search result URLs. Overrides the searchQuery field if provided. maxListings Integer (Optional) The maximum number of listings to find. 0 for unlimited. Default: 100 Here is an example of a simple input in JSON format:

JSON { "searchQuery": "ai chatbot", "maxListings": 150 }

Output sample

The results will be wrapped in a dataset which you can find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt of a dataset item you would get.

JSON [{ "url": "https://flippa.com/12345678-ai-customer-support-chatbot-saas", "category": "SaaS", "description": "A fast-growing AI chatbot for e-commerce stores with a strong monthly recurring revenue.", "isVerified": true, "askingPrice": 75000, "askingPriceText": "$75,000", "netProfitMonthly": 3500, "netProfitMonthlyText": "$3,500 /mo", "type": "SaaS", "industry": "Technology", "monetization": "Subscriptions", "siteAge": "2-3 years", "scrapedAt": "2025-08-10T17:15:20.345Z", "scrapedFrom": "https://flippa.com/search?q=ai+chatbot&page%5Bnumber%5D=1" }] You can download this data as an Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, XML, or CSV file.

How much will it cost to scrape Flippa?

This actor uses the Apify platform's standard resource-based pricing. The cost of a run depends on the resources consumed (Compute Units) and the proxy traffic used.

Compute Units (CUs): This actor is resource-intensive because it uses a full browser (Playwright) to load pages reliably. The more listings you scrape, the more CUs will be consumed.

Proxy Traffic: To avoid getting blocked, this actor is configured to use Residential Proxies by default. These are more reliable but more expensive than standard datacenter proxies.

To estimate costs: Run a small test with maxListings set to a low number (e.g., 25 or 50). This will give you a clear idea of the resource consumption for your specific use case, which you can then use to project the cost for a larger scrape.

You can potentially lower costs by switching to datacenter proxies, but this may reduce the success rate of your scrapes.

Is it legal to scrape Flippa?

This scraper is designed to extract publicly available data from business listings. It does not access any private or personal user data. We believe that scraping publicly available information is ethical and legal.

However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data if it's included in the public listing. Personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and other laws and regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Integrations and API usage

Flippa Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more.

You can also use the Apify API to manage, schedule, and run the actor programmatically. To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for Flippa Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console.