BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper

BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper

Scrape BusinessesForSale.com listings into structured acquisition-market data: titles, asking prices, revenue, cash flow, locations, categories, tags, images, and contact links.

Turn BusinessesForSale search pages, category pages, franchise pages, listing URLs, or keyword searches into clean deal-sourcing data with financial filters, disclosed-only toggles, detail-page enrichment, and exports for analysis or integrations.

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BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper (parsebird/businessesforsale-listings-scraper) scrapes public BusinessesForSale.com business and franchise listings. Inputs: startUrls ({url:string}[], search/category/franchise/listing URLs), searchKeywords (string[], default ["coffee shop"]), maxResults (int, default 20), country (global/us/uk/canada/australia/new-zealand), industry (string slug), locationText (string), sortOrder (default/newest/asking-price-lowest/asking-price-highest/turnover-lowest/turnover-highest/net-profit-lowest/net-profit-highest), financial min/max filters, and disclosed-only toggles. Output fields: listingId, url, sourceUrl, resultPosition, title, listingLabels, listingClass, location, description, financials, business, details, media, contact. Pricing: $0.80/1,000 listings for Free/Bronze/Silver and $0.60/1,000 for Gold. API: https://apify.com/parsebird/businessesforsale-listings-scraper/api - Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What is BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper?

BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts public business-for-sale and franchise listing data from BusinessesForSale.com. Use it as a BusinessesForSale API alternative when you need structured acquisition targets, broker inventory, comparable listings, franchise opportunities, or market snapshots without manual copy-paste.

You can paste BusinessesForSale search, category, franchise, or listing URLs, or generate keyword searches from inputs such as coffee shop, apps, restaurants, and car wash. Results are saved to an Apify Dataset, where you can preview, filter, export, schedule, or send them through the Apify API.

What can BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper do?

• Scrape BusinessesForSale search pages, category pages, franchise pages, and individual listing URLs.
• Generate source search URLs from keywords, country sites, industry slugs, location text, and source-supported sort options.
• Extract deal-research fields including title, URL, location, asking price, revenue, cash flow, EBITDA, categories, tags, description, images, and contact URL.
• Enrich listings from detail pages when public fields are available.
• Deduplicate listings by listing ID or canonical URL inside each run.
• Use financial filters and disclosed-only toggles to focus on listings with visible price, revenue, or cash-flow data.
• Run on Apify with scheduling, API access, webhooks, integrations, and export formats including JSON, CSV, and Excel.

What data can you extract from BusinessesForSale?

Each dataset item is one BusinessesForSale listing. Some fields can be empty when the source listing does not show that value.

Field	Description
listingId	BusinessesForSale listing identifier when available from the URL or page source
url	Canonical listing URL
sourceUrl	Search, category, franchise, or listing URL that produced the row
resultPosition	Position in the submitted source or generated search
title	Business or franchise listing title
listingLabels	Source labels such as New, Business, Franchise, Opportunity, or Price Reduced
listingClass	Source-backed class such as business, franchise, or opportunity
location	Display location plus parsed country, region, and city when visible
description	Best available public listing description
financials	Asking price, revenue, cash flow, and EBITDA as source text with parsed amount and currency when exact
business	Related source categories and listing tags
details	Premises, lease, employees, trading hours, support, reasons for selling, and expansion notes when shown
media	Direct source image URLs
contact	Public seller, broker, franchise, or opportunity contact URL and seller name when visible

How to scrape BusinessesForSale

1. Open BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper on Apify Store.
2. Click Try for free to open the actor in Apify Console.
3. Add one or more BusinessesForSale URLs, such as a search page, category page, franchise page, or listing URL.
4. Or enter search keywords such as coffee shop, apps, restaurants, or car wash.
5. For generated searches, choose the country site and optionally add an industry slug, location text, and sort order.
6. Set Listing Limit to a small number such as 50 for the first run.
7. Use financial filters or disclosed-only toggles when you only want rows with visible price, revenue, or cash-flow values.
8. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
9. Open the dataset to preview rows or export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	No	[]	BusinessesForSale search, category, franchise, or listing URLs you already have
searchKeywords	string[]	No	["coffee shop"]	Business themes used to generate search URLs
maxResults	integer	No	20	Maximum saved listings across all sources
country	string	No	global	Country site used for generated keyword searches
industry	string	No	""	Optional source slug such as restaurants or coffee-shops
locationText	string	No	""	Optional city, region, state, or country wording for generated searches
sortOrder	string	No	newest	Source-supported sort order for generated keyword searches
minAskingPrice / maxAskingPrice	integer	No	0	Optional asking-price amount filters
minRevenue / maxRevenue	integer	No	0	Optional revenue amount filters
minCashFlow / maxCashFlow	integer	No	0	Optional cash-flow amount filters
onlyDisclosedPrice	boolean	No	false	Require visible asking-price text
onlyDisclosedRevenue	boolean	No	false	Require visible revenue text
onlyDisclosedCashFlow	boolean	No	false	Require visible cash-flow text

Output example

{
  "listingId": "3967471",
  "url": "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/thai/profitable-coffee-shop-in-bangtao.aspx",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.businessesforsale.com/search/coffee-shops-for-sale",
  "resultPosition": 1,
  "title": "Profitable Coffee Shop in Bangtao",
  "listingLabels": ["New", "Business"],
  "listingClass": "business",
  "location": {
    "display": "Bang Tao, Phuket, Thailand",
    "country": "Thailand",
    "region": "Phuket",
    "city": "Bang Tao"
  },
  "description": "A profitable coffee shop in Bang Tao is for sale.",
  "financials": {
    "askingPrice": { "text": "$200,000 (USD)", "amount": 200000, "currency": "USD" },
    "revenue": { "text": "$100K - $250K (USD)", "amount": null, "currency": "USD" },
    "cashFlow": { "text": "$70,000 (USD)", "amount": 70000, "currency": "USD" },
    "ebitda": { "text": null, "amount": null, "currency": null }
  },
  "business": {
    "categories": [
      {
        "name": "Coffee Shops",
        "url": "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/thai/search/coffee-shops-for-sale"
      }
    ],
    "tags": ["Lease", "Relocatable"]
  },
  "details": {
    "realEstate": "Lease",
    "leaseTerms": "45,000 Thai baht per month. A 9-year contract with automatic renewal",
    "premises": "120 square metres, a veranda, a modern toilet, a bar counter, a kitchen.",
    "employees": "8",
    "yearsEstablished": "3",
    "tradingHours": "11:00-00:00 - 7 days",
    "supportTraining": "all",
    "reasonForSelling": "I'm moving to the US.",
    "expansionPotential": "As a special gift, we'll open another venue for you."
  },
  "media": {
    "imageUrls": [
      "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/uploads/efed68ea-b8fc-4569-8b1d-b46e00c223e9.jpg"
    ]
  },
  "contact": {
    "url": "https://thailand.businessesforsale.com/thai/profitable-coffee-shop-in-bangtao/contact",
    "sellerName": null
  }
}

Use cases

🔎 Deal sourcing - Build structured target lists of businesses, franchises, and opportunities for acquisition research.

📊 Market research - Compare asking prices, revenue ranges, cash flow, locations, and categories across countries or industries.

📈 Broker and franchise monitoring - Schedule recurring runs to track new or changed BusinessesForSale listings.

🤖 AI assistant workflows - Feed listing data into LLM agents through the Apify MCP server.

🔄 CRM and spreadsheet workflows - Send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Zapier, Make, or your database through Apify integrations.

How it works

1. The actor validates pasted URLs and generated keyword-search settings.
2. It fetches public BusinessesForSale HTML pages with browser-like headers.
3. Search result cards are parsed for listing URLs, labels, locations, financials, descriptions, tags, images, and contact links.
4. Listing detail pages are fetched when available to enrich descriptions, categories, property details, business operation fields, and media.
5. Duplicate rows are skipped by listing ID or canonical URL.
6. Financial and disclosed-only filters are applied before rows are saved.
7. Each saved listing is pushed to an Apify Dataset and billed as one pay-per-event result.

How much does it cost to scrape BusinessesForSale?

BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged once per saved listing, not for duplicate or skipped rows.

Plan	Price per 1,000 saved listings	Example: 5,000 listings
Free	$0.80	$4.00
Bronze	$0.80	$4.00
Silver	$0.80	$4.00
Gold	$0.60	$3.00

Apify platform usage costs are separate. Keep your first run small, review the dataset, then scale with a larger maxResults value or recurring schedules. Apify offers trial credits on eligible accounts; check current details on the Apify pricing page.

API usage examples

Run the BusinessesForSale scraper programmatically with the Apify API.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run_input = {
    "searchKeywords": ["coffee shop"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "country": "us",
    "sortOrder": "newest",
    "onlyDisclosedPrice": False,
}

run = client.actor("parsebird/businessesforsale-listings-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], item["financials"]["askingPrice"]["text"], item["url"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });

const input = {
    searchKeywords: ['coffee shop', 'restaurants'],
    maxResults: 20,
    country: 'us',
    sortOrder: 'newest',
    onlyDisclosedRevenue: false,
};

const run = await client.actor('parsebird/businessesforsale-listings-scraper').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

items.forEach((item) => {
    console.log(`${item.title} - ${item.location.display} - ${item.url}`);
});

You can connect finished datasets to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, webhooks, or your own API pipeline.

Is it legal to scrape BusinessesForSale?

BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper extracts publicly visible listing data. It does not log in, bypass paywalls, submit buyer forms, message sellers, or collect private account data. You should still review BusinessesForSale.com's terms and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws, privacy rules, and platform policies. For general background, read Apify's guide: Is web scraping legal?.

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FAQ

Can I scrape BusinessesForSale by keyword instead of URL? Yes. Add keywords such as coffee shop, apps, restaurants, or car wash. The actor generates BusinessesForSale search URLs using your selected country, industry, location, and sort settings.

Can I scrape a single BusinessesForSale listing URL? Yes. Paste an individual listing URL into startUrls. The actor fetches the public detail page and saves one structured row when the page is available.

Why are some financial amounts null? BusinessesForSale sometimes shows ranges, On request, or Undisclosed. The actor keeps the original source text and only parses amount when the value is an exact single amount.

Can I require disclosed asking price, revenue, or cash flow? Yes. Use the disclosed-only toggles to keep listings where the relevant financial field is visibly disclosed by the source.

Can I schedule recurring market checks? Yes. Use Apify schedules to run this BusinessesForSale scraper daily, weekly, or at any custom interval.

Can I use this as a BusinessesForSale scraper API? Yes. Call the actor through the Apify API, use webhooks, or connect it to AI assistants with the Apify MCP server.

Does the actor contact sellers? No. It only saves public listing data and the visible contact URL when shown by the source.

Where can I report issues or request fields? Use the Issues tab on the actor page: BusinessesForSale Listings Scraper issues.