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Franchise Directory Scraper

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Franchise Directory Scraper

Franchise Directory Scraper

Scrapes franchise opportunities from Franchise Direct, including franchise name, category, investment, description, and profile URL. Supports directory-wide or category-specific crawling, with optional profile details for franchise fees, cash requirements, investment ranges, and fact tables.

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Jamshaid Arif

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Scrapes franchise opportunities from franchisedirect.com: franchise name, industry category, minimum investment, description and profile URL. Start from the directory index to sweep multiple industry categories, or point it at a single category page. With include_details on, each franchise's profile page is also fetched for the franchise fee, minimum cash required, investment ranges and fact table.

Input

FieldDefaultDescription
category_urlhttps://www.franchisedirect.com/directory/Directory index (crawls categories) or a single category URL.
max_pages5Category pages to crawl from the index (38 categories exist).
include_detailsfalseFetch each profile page for fee / cash-required / fact table.
limit100Max franchise records to return.

Runs with empty input (first 5 categories, 100 franchises).

Output

{
"franchise_name": "Ledgers",
"category": "Tax Franchises",
"min_investment": 100000,
"franchise_fee": 15000,
"min_cash_required": 100000,
"description": "If you're searching for the secret sauce to operating a Successful business...",
"detail_url": "https://www.franchisedirect.com/tax-franchises/ledgers/",
"logo_url": "https://franchisedirect-40-prod-ops.s3.amazonaws.com/...png",
"franchise_id": "0000015f-4b3c-...",
"profile_status": "open",
"source_page": "https://www.franchisedirect.com/accountingfinancialfranchises/38",
"source_category": "Accounting & Financial Franchises",
"financials": {
"Minimum Cash Required": "$100,000",
"Franchise Fee": "$15,000",
"Total Investment Range": "$27,700 - $50,000"
},
"facts": { "Business Type": "Franchise", "Training Provided": "Yes" }
}

franchise_fee, min_cash_required, financials and facts are only populated when include_details is enabled; financials keeps the original strings so investment ranges survive, while the flat numeric fields hold the leading amount.