Business-for-Sale Deal Monitor — businesses for sale across marketplaces

Quick Start: click Start with the default input. With zero configuration it pulls the latest businesses for sale from Flippa (the live source) into one deduplicated, monitored feed — no API keys, no setup. Narrow it with keywords (e.g. SaaS, ecommerce), a maxAskingPriceUsd cap, or a location — every filter actually runs.

A deduplicated, monitored feed of businesses for sale, normalized into one clean schema. Whether you call it a business-for-sale scraper, an acquisitions data API, a deal-flow feed, or a listings monitor, this actor pulls Flippa today (with a tested BizBuySell adapter that switches on the moment a residential proxy is configured), deduplicates across sources, and tracks every deal over time so you see new listings and price drops the moment they happen.

Built for search funders, lower-mid-market PE acquirers, business brokers, and M&A advisors who live on deal flow.

What it does

• One Deal schema — title, category, location, asking price, revenue (TTM), a verifiedRevenue flag (true when the marketplace has verified the figure), cash flow / SDE, derived multiple, broker, and source link. Ready to unify more marketplaces as they open up.
• Filters that actually run — keywords, maxAskingPriceUsd, and location are applied to every listing before delivery, so you only pay for and pull the deals you asked for.
• Deduplicates across sources so the same business listed in two places is one record.
• Monitors over time — on a schedule, it emits only new listings and price/status changes, not the whole feed again (so recurring runs stay cheap).
• Hard cost cap so a run can never surprise you with a bill.

Sources (honest status)

This is the maintenance-heaviest actor in the portfolio because the marketplaces are HTML and several are anti-bot. We ship the sources that work and degrade gracefully on the ones that block datacenter traffic:

Marketplace	Status	Notes
Flippa	Live	Public JSON API, no auth — the primary working feed.
BizBuySell	Anti-bot	Parser built & tested; skipped when blocked (HTTP 403). Add a residential proxy to enable.
Empire Flippers	Unavailable	Retired its public listings API.
BizQuest	Anti-bot	HTTP 403 to datacenter clients.
Acquire.com	Auth-gated	Listings gated behind login.

When a source is blocked, the run logs a clear notice and the rest of the feed still delivers. We never fabricate listings to fill a blocked source.

Input

Runs zero-config. Optional fields (all applied as live filters, comma-separate for several terms):

• keywords — keep only listings whose title or category matches any term (example: ecommerce or saas, hvac). Case-insensitive.
• maxAskingPriceUsd — only keep listings at or below this price; undisclosed prices are kept (example: 500000).
• location — keep only listings whose seller location contains this text (example: United States).
• maxItems — upper bound per run (default 100). The Flippa source paginates to honor this, so values above one page (~50) now return more than one page.
• fullSync — off by default (incremental monitor). Turn it on to re-emit the entire current feed on every run — the one-off scraper / full-export use case rather than scheduled monitoring.
• maxCostPerRunUsd — hard cost cap, default $5.

Output

One canonical Deal per listing. See .actor/dataset_schema.json for the columns; the full field list is in src/mapping.ts (askingPrice, revenueTTM, verifiedRevenue, cashFlowSDE, multiple, broker, listingStatus, sourceUrl, …). verifiedRevenue is true when the marketplace has verified the revenue figure (Flippa's verified-revenue badge), so you know which revenueTTM numbers to trust.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small start fee plus ~$0.01–0.02 per deal result, with a hard per-run cost cap on by default. When you run it on a schedule (as a monitor), each run emits and charges for only the deals that are new or changed since the previous run; the first run emits the full current feed. Want the complete feed every run instead? Set fullSync: true. Actively maintained — fixes within 24h.