BizQuest Scraper — Business-for-Sale Listings

Collect structured, public business-for-sale listings from BizQuest. Use this actor for deal sourcing, market mapping, and screening public small-business opportunities. It returns one normalized dataset item per listing with the title, location, asking price, public search-card description, and source URL. Fields unavailable on search cards are null.

When to use this actor

Use it when you need to turn public BizQuest search pages, category pages, or location pages into structured records. Direct listing URLs are currently unsupported because BizQuest rejects cloud requests to detail pages. It is designed for M&A advisors, business buyers, market-research teams, and AI agents that need a compact source of public deal-flow data.

Do not use it to access account pages, submit seller or buyer inquiries, obtain confidential information, reveal hidden contact details, scrape broker contacts, or bypass site controls. It does not perform any of those actions. Before every run, you must confirm that your planned collection and use comply with BizQuest terms, applicable law, and any required authorization.

Input

Field	Description
startUrls	One or more public BizQuest search, category, or location URLs.
maxResults	A hard cap from 1 to 500 on stored and billed listings.
enrichDetails	Legacy option; detail pages currently deny access. If true, the Actor returns search-card fields with a warning. Defaults to false.
responseFormat	concise for core deal fields, or detailed to include the public search-card description.
acknowledgeAuthorization	Required confirmation that your collection and use are authorized.

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.bizquest.com/businesses-for-sale/" }],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "enrichDetails": false,
  "responseFormat": "detailed",
  "acknowledgeAuthorization": true
}

Output

Each dataset record has a stable, flat shape suitable for CSV exports and AI-agent use. Search-card fields include title, location, asking price, and description where displayed. Unavailable detail-page and financial fields are explicitly null.

Field	Meaning
listingUrl	Canonical public BizQuest listing URL.
title, location, industry	Public listing identity and classification.
askingPrice, cashFlow, grossRevenue, ebitda	Parsed USD financial values where the listing displays them.
realEstateIncluded, establishedYear, employees	Additional public screening facts where available.
description, imageUrls, publicFacts	Detail-mode public content and any non-standard label/value facts.
warnings	Non-fatal extraction notes. Missing fields are represented as null, not omitted.

Example result:

{
  "listingUrl": "https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/example/BW123456/",
  "sourceSearchUrl": "https://www.bizquest.com/businesses-for-sale/",
  "listingId": "BW123456",
  "title": "Profitable HVAC Company in Texas",
  "location": "Dallas, TX",
  "industry": null,
  "askingPrice": 1200000,
  "cashFlow": null,
  "grossRevenue": null,
  "ebitda": null,
  "realEstateIncluded": null,
  "establishedYear": null,
  "employees": null,
  "description": "Established service business with recurring commercial customers.",
  "imageUrls": [],
  "publicFacts": {},
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-22T12:00:00.000Z",
  "warnings": []
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Current tiered list prices are:

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
listing-scraped	$0.002001	$0.001950	$0.001900	$0.001600
apify-actor-start	$0.006251	$0.006094	$0.005938	$0.005000

The start event is automatic and scales with allocated memory (one event per GB, minimum one). The listing event is charged only after a valid listing is saved. At 1 GB, a BRONZE-tier run with one listing has $0.008044 in listed event charges; ten listings have $0.025594. A zero-result run can still incur the start event and platform usage.

The Actor uses bounded HTTP requests and stops denied pages to reduce the cost of empty runs. The listed event cost is a ceiling based on the user's tier; the Actor's status reports actual charged event counts rather than a guessed dollar amount.

Reliability behavior

The actor uses HTTP search pages, bounded retries, a strict result counter, and persisted state. It follows next-page links where BizQuest provides an accessible next link and stops once the requested cap is reached. If one page fails after retries, the run records a warning and preserves previously collected items. If all attempted pages are blocked or unreachable and no listing can be collected, it fails honestly rather than returning a misleading empty success.

BizQuest can change its page markup and may apply access controls. In that case the actor returns diagnostic warnings or an actionable failure explaining that the target could not be reached. It does not attempt to circumvent CAPTCHAs, login requirements, anti-bot challenges, or other restrictions.

AI-agent / MCP usage

Use this actor for public BizQuest business-for-sale discovery and basic financial screening. It returns compact, normalized listing records rather than page HTML. Do not use it for private deal rooms, broker outreach, consumer-credit decisions, or any evaluation of a person’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, government benefits, or housing.

For a focused agent call, provide one public search URL, set a small maxResults such as 10, and choose concise. For search-card descriptions, choose detailed. Detail-page enrichment is currently unavailable. Read warnings when a source has no public results or a page layout has changed.

Legal and responsible use

Listing data can be protected by website terms, copyright, contract, privacy, and other laws. You are responsible for verifying that your purpose, data handling, rate, and onward use are permitted. The authorization confirmation is intentionally required for every run. This actor is not legal advice, does not grant permission from BizQuest, and must not be used to defeat technical restrictions or collect confidential data.