Franchise Resale Scraper — Listings, Brands & Prices

Collect structured, public franchise-resale listings from FranchiseRESALES.com for acquisition sourcing, market research, and franchise-broker workflows. Each dataset row represents one public resale listing, with its asking price, location, public description, image, and source URL.

This Actor is purpose-built for the FranchiseRESALES.com marketplace. It is not a cross-marketplace business-for-sale scraper, a seller-contact extractor, or a tool for submitting enquiries and forms.

What it returns

Field	Description
title, franchiseBrand, industry	Public listing identity and categorization
location, city, stateOrProvince, country	Publicly displayed location, with conservative parsed components
askingPrice, currency, priceText	Published price as original text and a normalized value when unambiguous
summary, description, publishedFacts	Public marketing text and publicly labeled business facts
imageUrl, listingUrl, sourceUrl	Public image and auditable source links
scrapedAt	UTC extraction timestamp

Unavailable fields are null; this Actor does not estimate prices, revenue, brand identity, or private contact information.

When to use it

Use it to export current FranchiseRESALES.com opportunities, create a watchlist of public listings, compare advertised asking prices, or load structured opportunities into an internal research tool.

Do not use it to collect non-public seller details, submit contact forms, bypass access controls, or make an acquisition decision without independent financial and legal due diligence. For franchise opportunities that are not existing resales, use a new-franchise directory scraper instead.

Input

The default input starts from the marketplace’s public resale search page and returns up to 20 listings.

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.franchiseresales.com/find-a-resale/" }],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyCountry": "US"
}

You can also pass one or more direct public listing URLs. maxResults is a strict cap on unique dataset rows and billable listing events. The Actor always visits each public detail page because marketplace search cards do not reliably expose a listing title or core facts.

proxyCountry selects the country for the Actor’s residential Apify Proxy session. It defaults to US; use CA only when a Canadian session better reflects the public listing context. It is not a search-location filter.

Output example

{
  "listingUrl": "https://www.franchiseresales.com/example-listing/",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.franchiseresales.com/find-a-resale/",
  "title": "Anytime Fitness Club - Prime Location",
  "franchiseBrand": "Anytime Fitness",
  "location": "Scottsdale, Arizona",
  "city": "Scottsdale",
  "stateOrProvince": "Arizona",
  "country": "United States",
  "askingPrice": 350000,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceText": "$350,000",
  "summary": "Top-performing gym in a high-growth area.",
  "description": "Established fitness club with recurring membership revenue.",
  "industry": "Fitness",
  "imageUrl": "https://www.franchiseresales.com/wp-content/uploads/example.jpg",
  "publishedFacts": { "Annual Revenue": "$500,000" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

The terminal OUTPUT key contains the number of records, billed result events, failed requests, cost cap, and warnings. It distinguishes a valid empty search from an access failure.

Pricing

The Actor uses pay per event:

Event	Price	When charged
Actor start	$0.001	Once per run
Franchise resale listing returned	$0.01	Once for each unique listing successfully written to the dataset

A 20-listing run costs at most $0.201 in custom events: $0.001 start plus 20 × $0.01. Platform usage and any applicable proxy usage are separate. The Actor displays the maximum custom-event cost before collection starts and never charges a row that was not written.

Reliability and limits

The marketplace may use Cloudflare or change its public HTML. The Actor uses a bounded, sticky residential session when it runs on Apify and makes no more than 20 requests per minute. If all requests are blocked, it fails honestly with an access diagnostic and returns no fabricated rows or result charges. If a valid search page has no matching public cards, it completes with an EMPTY summary and a warning.

The parser is intentionally conservative. It preserves original price text beside normalized money, keeps optional fields nullable, and leaves ambiguous city or country components unset. Always retain sourceUrl and review the original listing before relying on any financial field.

API and agent use

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('your-username/franchise-resale-scraper').call({
  startUrls: [{ url: 'https://www.franchiseresales.com/find-a-resale/' }],
  maxResults: 10,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

For an agent workflow, provide the exact public page or listing URL and a small result cap. The returned data is one stable listing entity per item; the run-level OUTPUT summary is the place to check for access warnings or an empty search.

Compliance

Only collect publicly available data for lawful purposes and comply with FranchiseRESALES.com’s terms, applicable privacy laws, and reasonable request rates. The Actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by FranchiseRESALES.com.