BizQuest Businesses For Sale Scraper — M&A Brokered Deals, Valuation & Financials

A fast, reliable, and production-grade Apify Actor to scrape business listings from BizQuest — the original business-for-sale marketplace. Extract asking prices, cash flow, gross revenue, geographic locations, industry categories, and direct broker contact info.

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⚡ Key Advantages & Why It Beats Alternatives

• 🚀 Pure HTTP Fast-Path: Leverages Crawlee's CheerioCrawler and got-scraping to query SSR transfer state directly. Scrapes hundreds of businesses in seconds without sluggish headless browsers.
• 🛡️ Built-in Anti-Bot Bypass: Chrome TLS fingerprinting (Chrome 128+) and HTTP/2 framing seamlessly bypass Akamai anti-bot defenses.
• 💰 Fair Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Pay only for what you extract ($0.007 actor start, $0.001 per result).
• 📋 Complete Broker Intelligence: Extracts verified broker names, phone numbers, and broker companies for direct lead generation and deal sourcing.
• 🔄 Smart Pagination & Search: Automatically navigates multi-page results across states, regions, categories, and free-text queries.

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

This actor operates on a pay-as-you-go Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for what you extract:

Event Name	Purpose	Price (USD)	Description
apify-actor-start	Actor Start	$0.007	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
apify-default-dataset-item	result	$0.001	Single result in the default dataset.
additional-data	Additional data	$0.0005	Charged for additional data

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📥 Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array of objects	No	https://www.bizquest.com/businesses-for-sale-in-florida/	List of BizQuest search, state, category, or listing URLs to scrape.
searchQuery	String	No	"Florida Businesses For Sale"	Free-text search keywords or state name (used if startUrls is empty).
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of listings to collect (1 – 50,000).
proxy	Object	No	Residential Proxy enabled	Apify Proxy configuration (residential proxies recommended in cloud runs).

Sample JSON Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.bizquest.com/businesses-for-sale-in-florida/"
    }
  ],
  "searchQuery": "Florida Businesses For Sale",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

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📤 Output Dataset

Each record pushed to the Apify dataset contains complete financial and operational metadata:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Unique BizQuest listing ID (e.g. "2501228")
title	String	Headline title of the business listing
askingPrice	String	Asking price (e.g. "$9,800,000" or "Contact Seller")
cashFlow	String	Disclosed cash flow (e.g. "$250,000" or "Sign In to View")
grossRevenue	String	Annual gross revenue (e.g. "$14,600,000" or "Undisclosed")
location	String	City, county, or state location (e.g. "Seminole County, FL")
brokerName	String	Name of the listing business broker or agent
brokerPhone	String	Direct phone number of the business broker
url	String	Canonical URL of the listing on BizQuest
description	String	Executive summary / business description
category	String	Primary industry category (e.g. "Communication & Media")
brokerCompany	String	Brokerage company or agency name
imageUrl	String | null	High-resolution thumbnail image URL
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of extraction

Sample Extracted Item

{
  "id": "2501228",
  "title": "Southeast Marketing Consultancy with Media Management Focus",
  "askingPrice": "$9,800,000",
  "cashFlow": "Sign In to View",
  "grossRevenue": "Undisclosed",
  "location": "Seminole County, FL",
  "brokerName": "Marina Blackwood",
  "brokerPhone": "(850) 809-1979",
  "url": "https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/southeast-marketing-consultancy-with-media-management-focus/BW2501228/",
  "description": "Category-Focused, Staff-Run Marketing Platform Built to Scale",
  "category": "Communication & Media",
  "brokerCompany": "",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.bizquest.com/shared/listings/250/2501228/8b1d19dc-f161-4815-8c2f-ace7b1442c22-W336.webp",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T00:35:25.941Z"
}

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🎯 Use Cases

• Private Equity & Search Funds: Discover off-market and on-market acquisition targets meeting specific EBITDA, revenue, and cash-flow thresholds.
• M&A Advisors & Brokers: Monitor competitor listings, regional deal activity, and industry trends across North America.
• Lead Generation: Build targeted contact lists of active business brokers and intermediaries.
• Market Research & Valuation: Benchmark industry multiples, asking price distributions, and regional business sales.

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🏷️ Tags & Keywords

bizquest, business-for-sale, m-and-a, deal-sourcing, lead-generation, business-brokers, commercial-real-estate, valuation, company-data, private-equity, franchises