Bizquest Businesses For Sale Scraper

Scrape active business-for-sale listings from BizQuest, one of the largest US general business-for-sale marketplaces. Get title, location, category, asking price, cash flow, gross revenue, and a direct link for every listing.

Features

• Walks the full active-listings index — every category, every state
• Pulls the authoritative asking price, cash flow, and gross revenue for each listing
• Automatically filters out sponsored/franchise ads and broker-profile placements, so every row is a real business-for-sale listing
• Configurable maximum records per run

Usage

{
  "maxItems": 50
}

No other input is required — the actor crawls BizQuest's active businesses-for-sale index directly.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	Integer	10	Maximum number of listings to scrape. Required.

Output

Each output record represents one business-for-sale listing:

{
  "listing_id": "2516212",
  "title": "Custom window treatment business for sale",
  "location": "Clark County, NV",
  "category": "Manufacturing",
  "asking_price": 275000,
  "cash_flow": null,
  "gross_revenue": 830000,
  "detail_url": "https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/custom-window-treatment-business-for-sale/BW2516212/",
  "status": "For Sale",
  "enriched": true
}

• asking_price, cash_flow, and gross_revenue are null when the seller hasn't disclosed that figure — this is common for cash flow in particular; BizQuest itself doesn't publish it for most listings.
• status is always "For Sale" — sold or withdrawn listings drop off BizQuest's own active index, so every listing this actor returns is currently for sale.
• enriched is true when the listing's own detail page was reached, so the financial fields above reflect what BizQuest actually published (including a genuine null when BizQuest itself didn't disclose a figure). It is false only on the rare listing whose detail page could not be reached — the identity fields are still real, but no financial data is available for that row. If a run's results fall mostly into this category, the run fails rather than returning a dataset stripped of the figures this actor is for — retry the run.

Resuming a large crawl

Every run emits a resumeCursor in its Output. If a big crawl stops before it finishes — because it hit maxItems, a spend cap, or was aborted — you can pick up where it left off: start a new run with the same input plus that resumeCursor. The crawl continues from the queued work the previous run didn't reach.

• You are not re-charged for records the earlier run already delivered.
• Resume within your account's run-retention window — on the free tier, roughly the 10 most recent runs. Once the source run is pruned, its resumeCursor is no longer valid.
• resumeCursor is opaque — supply it unmodified.

Notes

• BizQuest's active-listings index is large (thousands of listings). Set maxItems to control run size and cost.
• Listings without a disclosed asking price, cash flow, or gross revenue are still returned — those fields are simply null.