Smergers Business Listing Scraper

Smergers (smergers.com) is a marketplace for business sale, investment, and funding opportunities. This actor collects structured business listing data from Smergers listing and detail pages.

Introduction

The Smergers Business Listing scraper starts from listing or detail URLs, follows listing pagination, and extracts structured business profile data such as title, rating, financial fields, user verification flags, documents, transaction details, and recent activity metadata.

Use Cases

• Deal sourcing: Build datasets of businesses for sale or investment opportunities by location and category.
• Market research: Analyze pricing, valuation signals, and business profile quality across sectors.
• Lead enrichment: Enrich CRM records with listing metadata and verification signals.
• Analytics pipelines: Feed BI dashboards and internal warehousing with normalized listing records.

Input

Provide the following fields:

• startUrls (array, optional): Smergers listing or business detail URLs.
• maxItems (integer, optional): Maximum number of detail items to extract per start URL.
• proxyConfiguration (object, optional): Apify proxy settings.

Notes:

• If startUrls is empty, the scraper starts from: https://www.smergers.com/businesses-for-sale-and-investment/b/.
• If a URL is a listing URL, the actor follows pagination and extracts detail URLs.
• If a URL is a detail URL (/business/...), it is scraped directly.
• If maxItems is omitted, the actor fetches until the last available listing page.
• Some pages may return 403 due to anti-bot protections; proxy usage is recommended for better stability.

Input Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.smergers.com/businesses-for-sale-and-investment/b/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

Each dataset item contains fields like:

{
  "title": "Profitable Rented Commercial Property for Sale in Genoa, Italy - Mixed-use commercial and residential property near Genoa Port generating rental income with strong redevelopment potential.",
  "subtitle": "Mixed-use commercial and residential property near Genoa Port generating rental income with strong redevelopment potential.",
  "rating": 8.3,
  "listingSku": "b-3f0xx",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.smergers.com/business/profitable-rented-commercial-property-for-sale-in-genoa-italy/3f0xx/",
  "established": "50-60 year(s)",
  "employees": "2 - 5",
  "legalEntity": "Sole Proprietorship/Sole Trader",
  "reportedSales": "IDR 10000 - 20000 million",
  "runRateSales": "IDR 14000 million",
  "ebitdaMargin": "30 - 40 %",
  "industry": "Rented Commercial Properties",
  "location": "Genoa",
  "localTime": "11:35 AM Indian / Maldives",
  "listedBy": "Business Owner / Director",
  "status": "Active",
  "askingPrice": "156000 million",
  "stake": null,
  "membershipPlan": "This Business is on a Premium Plan",
  "userVerification": {
    "email": true,
    "phone": true,
    "google": true,
    "linkedin": false,
    "facebook": false
  },
  "documents": [
    {
      "title": "Floor Plans",
      "fileSize": "(137.6 KB)",
      "isLocked": true,
      "url": "https://www.smergers.com/accounts/login/?next=/business/profitable-rented-commercial-property-for-sale-in-genoa-italy/3f0xx/",
      "iconUrl": "https://www.smergers.com/static/images/icons/pdf.png"
    }
  ],
  "transactions": [
    {
      "title": "Full Sale",
      "summary": "Asking Price: IDR 156000 million (Native Currency: USD 9,186,321)",
      "reason": "The sale is motivated by the owner's relocation abroad with family."
    }
  ],
  "recentActivities": [
    {
      "type": "status",
      "value": "Active"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.smergers.com/business/profitable-rented-commercial-property-for-sale-in-genoa-italy/3f0xx/"
}

The scraper paginates through listing results and stops when maxItems is reached per start URL or when no next page is available.

Why use the Smergers Business Listing Scraper?

• Focused: Built specifically for Smergers business listing/detail flows.
• Structured output: Ready-to-use JSON records for automation and analysis.
• Rich extraction: Includes financial fields, verification signals, documents, transactions, and activity metadata.
• Flexible input: Supports listing URLs and direct detail URLs.
• Apify-native: Works with Apify dataset, request queue, and proxy configuration.

FAQ

• How many items can it extract?
  Controlled by maxItems per source URL. If omitted, it crawls until the last page.

• Do I need proxies?
  Proxies are recommended for larger runs and better reliability.

• Can I start from a detail URL?
  Yes. Detail URLs are supported directly.

• What if Smergers changes website structure?
  The actor may require updates to keep extraction stable.

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Image credit: smergers.com.