BusinessesForSale Scraper: Prices, Revenue, Cash Flow & Brokers

Business-for-sale listings from six countries, structured and ready to screen Asking price, revenue, cash flow, and broker contact links for every matching listing on BusinessesForSale.com, delivered as a clean dataset instead of a browser tab you have to babysit.

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🏢 What does BusinessesForSale Scraper do?

This Actor extracts active business resales, franchise listings, and corporate assets from the BusinessesForSale.com network (https://www.businessesforsale.com), including its US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand sites. It collects asking prices, annual revenue, cash flow, years established, employee counts, trading hours, real estate status, reason for selling, and broker contact links. It outputs the data in flat, spreadsheet-friendly formats like JSON, CSV, HTML, and Excel, so brokers, acquirers, and researchers can build a market snapshot without opening a single listing page by hand.

🌍 6 country sites Global, US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in one input.

💵 Price, revenue, and cash flow filters Narrow results to the deal size that fits your mandate before you scrape.

🔎 Optional deep scrape Pull broker, employee, and lease details straight from each listing page.

💳 Pay per result Nothing charged on empty runs, no subscription.

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💡 Why use BusinessesForSale Scraper?

• Search-fund and private equity analysts: Screen hundreds of businesses for sale by price-to-revenue and price-to-cash-flow ratios before opening a single listing in a browser.
• Business brokers: Watch competing brokerages for new listings and price changes in your target region, so you know what else buyers are seeing.
• M&A and valuation researchers: Build price and cash flow comps across industries and countries without re-typing a single asking price.
• Acquisition lead generation teams: Turn a filtered search into a contact list of broker links ready to load into a CRM.

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🚀 How to use BusinessesForSale Scraper?

Step 1 Pick a country site, industry, and price range.

Step 2 Run the Actor and let it collect every matching listing.

Step 3 Download a clean spreadsheet of prices, financials, and contacts.

You can also paste direct search, category, or listing URLs under Start URLs, which overrides the filter fields above. Residential proxies are strongly recommended and enabled by default.

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📥 Input

You can configure these parameters to customize your extraction:

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Specific search, category, or direct listing page links. Overrides all filter fields below when set.
searchKeywords	array	No	Sector keywords to search for (e.g. 'coffee shop'). Each keyword generates its own search.
country	enum	No	Target country site to run generated keyword searches against: Global, US, UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.
industry	enum	No	Narrow results to one of 19 business categories, such as Restaurants & Food or Franchises.
locationText	string	No	City, state, or region to filter by, converted into a URL slug automatically.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum total listings to scrape across all search URLs.
minPrice	integer	No	Only return listings with asking prices at or above this value.
maxPrice	integer	No	Only return listings with asking prices at or below this value.
minRevenue	integer	No	Only return listings with annual revenue at or above this value. Requires deep scrape.
maxRevenue	integer	No	Only return listings with annual revenue at or below this value. Requires deep scrape.
minCashFlow	integer	No	Only return listings with annual cash flow at or above this value. Requires deep scrape.
maxCashFlow	integer	No	Only return listings with annual cash flow at or below this value. Requires deep scrape.
sortOrder	enum	No	Order results by newest, featured, price, revenue, or profit.
deepScrape	boolean	No	Fetch each listing's detail page to extract revenue, cash flow, employee count, lease terms, and broker info.
proxyConfiguration	object	Yes	Proxy settings. Residential proxies are recommended to get past Cloudflare checks reliably.

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📤 Output

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

{
  "listing_id": "3967471",
  "title": "Profitable Coffee Shop in Bangtao",
  "listing_class": "Business",
  "industry": "Restaurants & Food",
  "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.",
  "highlights": "Prime beachside location, loyal local customer base",
  "relocatable": "No",
  "home_based": "No",
  "owner_financing": "No",
  "real_estate_included": "No",
  "broker_company": "Thailand Business Brokers Ltd",
  "broker_license": "TBB-0042",
  "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).
industry	string	Business category or sector.
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.
highlights	string	Seller-provided highlights or selling points.
relocatable	string	Whether the business can be relocated.
home_based	string	Whether the business can be run from home.
owner_financing	string	Whether the seller offers financing.
real_estate_included	string	Whether property is included in the sale.
broker_company	string	Listing broker or agency name.
broker_license	string	Broker license number, when disclosed.
picture_url	string	Primary listing image URL.
contact_url	string	Direct link to the seller or 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 runs on a lightweight, low-memory setup that keeps compute costs down.

• Pricing model: Pay per result. You are billed only for business listing rows that are successfully extracted and returned to your dataset.
• Empty runs: If a search returns no matching listings, you pay nothing.
• No subscription: There is no monthly fee or minimum commitment.

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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 payment transactions.
• Does it work outside the US? Yes. Set the country field to run searches against the UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand sites, or paste a direct URL from any BusinessesForSale regional site.
• Can I request a custom feature? Yes. If you need custom integration schemas or CRM push routes, reach out via the Issues tab.
• Need help? If you experience blockages or need technical assistance, submit a ticket in the Issues tab of this Actor's Store page.

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