# nexxt-change Scraper – German Businesses for Sale (`outlandish_mainsail/nexxt-change-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Germany's official business succession exchange nexxt-change.org (KfW / Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs): businesses for sale and buyer requests with industry, region, employees, revenue and asking-price bands and full descriptions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/outlandish_mainsail/nexxt-change-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andreas v](https://apify.com/outlandish_mainsail) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## nexxt-change Scraper – German Businesses for Sale

Scrape **[nexxt-change.org](https://www.nexxt-change.org)**, Germany's official business succession exchange (Unternehmensnachfolgebörse), run by the federal development bank **KfW** and the **Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWE)** with chambers of commerce and crafts as regional partners.

It holds thousands of German small and mid-sized businesses for sale (**Verkaufsangebote**, 6,424 on 9 Oct 2026) and buyer requests (**Kaufgesuche**, 2,235): owners retiring, craft businesses, restaurants, manufacturers, retailers, service companies.

### What you get

Title, reference number (Chiffre), publication date, listing type, advertiser type (owner or broker), short and full description, industries, locations (state > district), **employee band, last annual revenue band and asking-price band** (as text and as numeric min/max in EUR), international activity and image URLs.

### Use cases

- **Search funds, private equity, family offices and strategic buyers:** German SME deal flow (Mittelstand succession).
- **M\&A advisors and business brokers:** find sellers and buyers, monitor the market by region and industry.
- **Banks, chambers and researchers:** statistics on the succession market.
- **Daily alerts:** schedule it with *Only new listings* to receive each new listing once.

### Input

- **Listing type:** businesses for sale, buyer requests, or both.
- **Search terms, regions, industries:** e.g. `["Bäckerei"]`, `["Bayern", "Hamburg"]`, `["Handwerk"]`. Region and industry names are matched against the site's own lists. Each combination runs as a separate search, and duplicates are removed.
- **Bands:** asking price, revenue and employees use the site's own filters.
- **Include full details** (default on): opens each listing page. Off = fast mode, 10 listings per request, with title, date, industry, region and teaser.

```json
{ "listingType": "sale", "regions": ["Bayern"], "industries": ["Handwerk"], "revenueRange": "500k-2.5m", "maxItems": 200 }
```

### Output example (shortened)

```json
{
  "adId": "660031",
  "reference": "EX-A-1679-2026",
  "listingType": "business-for-sale",
  "url": "https://www.nexxt-change.org/DE/Verkaufsangebot/Detailseite/detailseite_jsp?adId=660031",
  "title": "Hausverwaltungs-GmbH mit 25 Mieteinheiten — vollvermietet, sofort ertragreich, M",
  "datePublished": "2026-10-08",
  "advertiserType": "Privatperson/Firma",
  "shortDescription": "Zur Übergabe steht eine vollständig operativ tätige Hausverwaltungs-GmbH mit 25 vermieteten Mieteinheiten (24 Wohn- + 1 Gewerbeeinheit) in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg.",
  "description": "EINLEITUNG:\n\nZur Übergabe steht eine vollständig operativ tätige Hausverwaltungs-GmbH mit 25 vermieteten Mieteinheiten (24 Wohn- + 1 Gewerbeeinheit) in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg. Die Übergabe erfolgt aus persönlichen …",
  "industries": [
    "Grundstücks- und Wohnungswesen"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Baden-Württemberg > Tübingen > Reutlingen"
  ],
  "state": "Baden-Württemberg",
  "employeesRange": "Nicht veröffentlicht",
  "employeesMin": null,
  "employeesMax": null,
  "revenueRange": "über 50 - 250 Tsd. Euro",
  "revenueMinEur": 50000,
  "revenueMaxEur": 250000,
  "askingPriceRange": "über 2,5 Mio. Euro",
  "askingPriceMinEur": 2500000,
  "askingPriceMaxEur": null,
  "internationalActivity": null,
  "isNew": false,
  "hasImages": false,
  "hasExpose": false,
  "imageUrls": [],
  "source": "nexxt-change.org (KfW / BMWE)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T17:21:09.821Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result: you only pay for listings saved to the dataset, plus a tiny start fee. The run respects your spending limit.

### Data source and reuse

nexxt-change's legal notice states that information created by the nexxt-change exchange may be passed on and reproduced **with the source named**. Every record therefore carries `source: "nexxt-change.org (KfW / BMWE)"`; please keep the attribution when you republish the data. This Actor is not affiliated with KfW or the ministry.

### Polite and transparent

One request at a time, at least 3 seconds apart, with an honest user agent. robots.txt is respected. No login.

### Data protection (GDPR)

Listings on nexxt-change are **anonymous** (contact only through the site's form), and the Actor collects **no names, e-mails or phone numbers**. Free-text descriptions are written by advertisers and could, rarely, contain personal details. Use the data lawfully and do not use it for unsolicited advertising.

# Actor input Schema

## `listingType` (type: `string`):

Which part of the exchange to scrape.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Optional full-text searches (German works best, e.g. "Bäckerei", "Metallbau", "GmbH"). Each term is a separate search.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Optional German states, government districts or districts, e.g. "Bayern", "Hamburg", "München". Each region is a separate search.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Optional industries as named on the site, e.g. "Handwerk", "Gastgewerbe", "Installateur und Heizungsbauer". Each is a separate search.

## `askingPriceRange` (type: `string`):

Site filter on the asking-price band.

## `revenueRange` (type: `string`):

Site filter on the revenue band.

## `employeesRange` (type: `string`):

Site filter on headcount band.

## `advertiserType` (type: `string`):

Who placed the listing.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many listings in total. 0 = no limit.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each listing for the full description, all locations and industries, and the employee, revenue and price bands. Off = fast mode with title, date, industry, region and teaser only.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional: specific nexxt-change.org listing (detail page) URLs to scrape instead of searching.

## `maxPagesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap (10 listings per page). 0 = no cap.

## `skipPreviouslyScraped` (type: `boolean`):

Remember listing IDs between runs and skip them next time. Ideal for daily deal-flow alerts with a schedule.

## `seenListingsKey` (type: `string`):

Use different keys for separate monitoring tasks.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed normally.

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

HTTP User-Agent header. The default identifies this Actor honestly.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "listingType": "sale",
  "askingPriceRange": "any",
  "revenueRange": "any",
  "employeesRange": "any",
  "advertiserType": "any",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 0,
  "skipPreviouslyScraped": false,
  "seenListingsKey": "SEEN_IDS",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "userAgent": "NexxtChangeListingsActor/1.0 (+https://apify.com)"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

All scraped listings in the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("outlandish_mainsail/nexxt-change-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 50 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("outlandish_mainsail/nexxt-change-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call outlandish_mainsail/nexxt-change-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,outlandish_mainsail/nexxt-change-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gevViI89Syx2xcWUy/builds/PaQ0klz5WWiMedPcI/openapi.json