# BusinessesForSale.com Listings Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/businessesforsale-com-global-business-listings-scraper`) Actor

Extract business-for-sale listings worldwide: title, location, sector, asking price, revenue, and cash flow.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/businessesforsale-com-global-business-listings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## BusinessesForSale.com Listings Scraper

Scrape business-for-sale listings from [BusinessesForSale.com](https://www.businessesforsale.com), one of the largest international marketplaces for buying and selling businesses. Returns title, location, country, sector, asking price, annual revenue, and cash flow for listings spanning 27+ countries.

***

### BusinessesForSale.com Scraper Features

- Extracts asking price, annual revenue, and cash flow for every listing
- Covers the full worldwide index — not just one country's slice of the marketplace
- Parses the business sector (Restaurants, IT Businesses, Cafes and Diners, and hundreds more) directly from each listing
- Splits location into city/region and a clean country field
- Returns a stable listing ID and the canonical detail-page URL for every record
- Handles money values however the seller entered them — an exact figure or a rounded range — and normalizes both to a number

***

### Who Uses BusinessesForSale.com Data?

- **Business brokers** — track new listings and asking-price trends across a sector or region
- **Investors and search-fund operators** — screen a market for acquisition targets by revenue and cash flow
- **Franchise consultants** — monitor which independent businesses are coming to market
- **Market researchers** — build datasets on small-business valuations by country and sector
- **Lead-gen teams** — feed listing contacts into a CRM for outreach to sellers or brokers

***

### How BusinessesForSale.com Scraper Works

1. Set `maxItems` to how many listings you want.
2. The scraper works through the marketplace's listings and pulls the full detail for each one — asking price, revenue, cash flow, sector, and location.
3. Every listing lands in your dataset as a clean, structured record, ready to export or pipe into another tool.

***

### Input

```json
{
  "maxItems": 25
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `maxItems` | Integer | 10 | Maximum number of listings to scrape |
| `resumeCursor` | String | — | Cursor from a previous run's Output. Continues a stopped crawl without re-fetching listings you already have. |

#### Resuming a large crawl

Every run emits a `resumeCursor` in its Output. If a large crawl stops before it finishes — because it hit `maxItems`, your spend cap (`maxTotalChargeUsd`), or was aborted — start a new run with **the same input** plus that `resumeCursor` to continue from where it left off. The crawl resumes 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 your 10 most recent runs. Once the source run is pruned, its `resumeCursor` is no longer valid.
- `resumeCursor` is opaque — supply it unmodified.

***

### BusinessesForSale.com Scraper Output Fields

```json
{
  "listing_id": "3986102",
  "title": "Long-standing Popular Restaurant And Café In Chicago, IL",
  "location": "Chicago, Illinois, US",
  "country": "US",
  "sector": "Cafes and Diners",
  "asking_price": 299000,
  "turnover": 1541153,
  "net_profit": 103558,
  "detail_url": "https://us.businessesforsale.com/us/long-standing-popular-restaurant-and-cafe-in-chicago-il.aspx"
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `listing_id` | String | Source-native listing ID |
| `title` | String | Listing title |
| `location` | String | Full location string (city, region, country) |
| `country` | String | Country the business is located in |
| `sector` | String | Business sector (e.g. Restaurants, IT Businesses, Cafes and Diners) |
| `asking_price` | Number | Asking price in USD — the upper bound when the seller listed a rounded range instead of an exact figure |
| `turnover` | Number | Annual revenue in USD — same rounding rule as `asking_price` |
| `net_profit` | Number | Annual cash flow / net profit in USD — same rounding rule as `asking_price` |
| `detail_url` | String | Canonical URL of the listing detail page |

Franchise "opportunity" listings — a single franchise brand advertised across multiple locations rather than an individual business for sale — aren't included; they're priced and structured differently and don't map cleanly onto these fields.

***

### FAQ

#### How do I scrape BusinessesForSale.com?

Run this actor with a `maxItems` value and it returns structured listing data — no manual browsing or copy-pasting from the site required.

#### What data can I get from BusinessesForSale.com?

Title, location, country, sector, asking price, annual revenue, and cash flow for every listing, plus the listing ID and detail-page URL.

#### Does this cover every country, or just the US?

The full worldwide index — 52,000+ listings across 27+ country marketplaces (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and more), not a single country's slice.

#### How much does BusinessesForSale.com Scraper cost to run?

Pricing is pay-per-result under Apify's PPE model — see the actor's Pricing tab for the current per-record rate plus a small fixed run cost.

#### What happens to listings priced as a range instead of an exact figure?

Some sellers list "Under $100K" instead of an exact revenue figure. The scraper returns the upper bound of that range as the number, so every record stays numeric and comparable.

***

### Need More Features?

Need custom fields, filters, or a different target site? [File an issue](https://console.apify.com/actors/issues) or get in touch.

### Why Use BusinessesForSale.com Scraper?

- **Full worldwide coverage** — pulls from the unified global index, not one country's subdomain
- **Clean, comparable numbers** — asking price, revenue, and cash flow always come back as numbers, even when the source listed a rounded range instead of an exact figure
- **Sector included** — parsed straight from each listing, so you can group or filter by industry without extra scraping

# Actor input Schema

## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`):

What will this data feed? E.g. lead lists, KYB checks, price tracking.

## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`):

Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements.

## `sp_contact` (type: `string`):

We'll personally help with your use case. No spam.

## `resumeCursor` (type: `string`):

Leave empty for a fresh crawl. To CONTINUE a previous run where it stopped — without paying again for records you already received — paste the `resumeCursor` value from that run's Output (the run's OUTPUT key). Resume promptly: the previous run's data expires with your account's retention window (free tier: your ~10 most recent runs).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to scrape

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/businessesforsale-com-global-business-listings-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/businessesforsale-com-global-business-listings-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call jungle_synthesizer/businessesforsale-com-global-business-listings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jungle_synthesizer/businessesforsale-com-global-business-listings-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/y9U6tQVRkRN3XnMeR/builds/GYd1nWbO3c6GONqja/openapi.json