BusinessesForSale Scraper

What does BusinessesForSale scraper do?

This Actor extracts complete lists of active business resales, franchise listings, and corporate assets from the global BusinessesForSale.com directory (https://www.businessesforsale.com). It gathers detailed listing profiles across multiple international regional shards, collecting asking prices, annual sales revenues, cash flows, full descriptive texts, employee counts, lease terms, and broker contact paths. It outputs this data in flat, spreadsheet-friendly formats like JSON, CSV, HTML, and Excel, allowing brokers and private equity teams to compile instant market snapshots.

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Why use BusinessesForSale scraper?

• Brokerage monitoring: Keep track of newly active business listings and price changes in your target markets in real time.
• Acquisition lead generation: Build complete pipelines of acquisition targets based on precise price, revenue, or cash flow filters.
• Valuation analysis: Track pricing trends and valuation multiples (price-to-revenue or price-to-cash-flow) across different sectors.
• Brokers lead lists: Extract direct brokerage agency contact form links to follow up within your CRM system.

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How to use BusinessesForSale scraper?

1. Open the BusinessesForSale Scraper page on the Apify Console.
2. Select your search keywords or paste target search/category URLs.
3. Configure your price, revenue, or location filters.
4. Set your proxy settings (residential proxies are strongly recommended).
5. Click the Run button and wait for the extraction to finish.
6. Download your clean business resales table from the Output tab.

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Input

You can configure these parameters to customize your extraction:

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array	No	Specific category or direct search result page links.
searchKeywords	array	No	Sector keywords or search terms (e.g. 'coffee shop').
country	string	No	Target country site to execute generated keyword searches against.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum total business listings to scrape.
minPrice	integer	No	Lowest visible asking price.
maxPrice	integer	No	Highest visible asking price.
minRevenue	integer	No	Lowest visible sales revenue.
minCashFlow	integer	No	Lowest visible annual cash flow.
deepScrape	boolean	No	Enable deep scraping to fetch listing detail pages and extract employee counts, years established, and lease terms.
proxyConfiguration	object	Yes	Pre-configured rotating proxies with residential exit selection.

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Output

Here is an example of the structured dataset returned for each listing:

{
  "listing_id": "3967471",
  "name": "profitable-coffee-shop-in-bangtao",
  "title": "Profitable Coffee Shop in Bangtao",
  "listing_class": "Business",
  "country": "Thailand",
  "region": "Phuket",
  "city": "Bang Tao",
  "description": "A profitable coffee shop in Bang Tao is for sale.",
  "asking_price": 200000,
  "asking_price_currency": "USD",
  "asking_price_text": "$200,000 (USD)",
  "revenue": 175000,
  "revenue_text": "$100K - $250K (USD)",
  "cash_flow": 70000,
  "cash_flow_text": "$70,000 (USD)",
  "years_established": "3",
  "employees_count": "8",
  "trading_hours": "11:00-00:00 - 7 days",
  "real_estate": "Lease",
  "reason_for_selling": "I'm moving to the US.",
  "picture_url": "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/uploads/efed68ea-b8fc-4569-8b1d-b46e00c223e9.jpg",
  "contact_url": "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/thai/profitable-coffee-shop-in-bangtao/contact",
  "listing_url": "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/thai/profitable-coffee-shop-in-bangtao.aspx",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-23T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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Data table

The final output dataset is completely flat and spreadsheet-friendly:

Field	Type	Description
listing_id	string	Unique listing identifier on BusinessesForSale.
title	string	Title of the business or franchise listing.
listing_class	string	Classification (Business or Franchise).
country	string	Country name where the listing resides.
region	string	Local state, province, or region.
city	string	City name.
description	string	Short narrative description of the business.
asking_price	number	Parsed numerical asking price.
asking_price_currency	string	Currency code (e.g. USD, GBP, EUR).
asking_price_text	string	Source asking price text.
revenue	number	Parsed numerical annual revenue.
revenue_text	string	Source revenue text.
cash_flow	number	Parsed numerical annual cash flow.
cash_flow_text	string	Source cash flow text.
years_established	string	Number of years active.
employees_count	string	Number of active staff.
trading_hours	string	Weekly trading hours.
real_estate	string	Real estate status (Lease, Freehold, Owned).
reason_for_selling	string	Reason why the business is on the market.
picture_url	string	Primary listing image URL.
contact_url	string	Direct link to the seller/broker contact form.
listing_url	string	Canonical listing page URL on the platform.
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 extraction timestamp.

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Pricing

This Actor utilizes a Serverless got-scraping architecture on a lightweight memory footprint, which keeps compute consumption to an absolute minimum.

• Pricing model: Pay-Per-Event billing is active on this Actor.
• Usage calculation: You are charged only for the actual number of business listing rows successfully extracted and returned to your dataset.

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FAQ, disclaimers, and support

• Is it legal to scrape BusinessesForSale? Yes, this scraper extracts publicly accessible listings, financial text, and operational statistics. It does not access private account dashboards or user payment transactions.
• Can I request a custom feature? Absolutely. If you need custom integration schemas, CRM push routes, or continuous email alert pipelines, please reach out via the Issues tab.
• Need help? If you experience blockages or require technical assistance, please submit a ticket in the Issues tab of this Actor's Store page.