💼 BizQuest Scraper

🚀 Pull US business-for-sale listings from BizQuest in minutes. Asking price, cash flow, financials, broker contacts, industry, location. No API key, no manual CSV wrangling.

Pull structured records from BizQuest — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/bizquest-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/bizquest-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), location (string, default "California"), industry (string, default "Restaurant"), priceMin (integer), priceMax (integer), cashFlowMin (integer). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~bizquest-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

Pull live business-for-sale listings from BizQuest, one of the largest US business marketplaces. The actor walks the BizQuest catalog with your filter combination, paginates through results, and returns one structured record per listing ready for acquisition research, broker prospecting, deal flow tracking, or comp analysis.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of BizQuest, not a stale dump. Records include asking price, cash flow (SDE), gross income, broker contact info, industry, location detail down to ZIP and street address, business type flags (home-based, absentee-owner, franchise, financing available), and the listing date.

👥 Built for	🎯 Primary use cases
Business buyers and search funds	Track new acquisition opportunities daily
Business brokers	Monitor competitor inventory and pricing
M&A advisors	Build deal flow lists by industry and geography
Lenders and SBA partners	Source qualified financing leads
Researchers and journalists	Map US small-business transaction trends
Lead-gen and CRM teams	Build broker outreach prospect lists

📋 What the BizQuest Scraper does

• 💰 Pricing. Asking price, cash flow (SDE), and gross income with the values BizQuest displays.
• 📍 Location detail. State, county, city, ZIP, and street address where exposed.
• 🏷️ Industry and type. Industry classification, business type, year established, employee count.
• 👤 Broker contact. Broker name, company, phone, email plus the TPN forwarding number.
• 🏠 Listing flags. Home-based, absentee-owner, franchise, relocatable, hot property, financing available, real estate included.
• 🖼️ Image and description. Primary listing image plus full text description, facilities, support, FFE.

The scraper accepts location and industry filters (free-text), price range, cash-flow range, and a listing-age cutoff. It walks BizQuest result pages with your filter combination, fetches each detail page, and pushes the structured record to the dataset.

💡 Why it matters: BizQuest has the largest pool of small-business-for-sale listings in the US but the site is paginated and rate-limited. A live, structured pull beats manual scraping for buyer research, broker prospecting, and deal-flow monitoring.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: absenteeOwner, askingPrice, brokerCompany, brokerEmail, brokerName, brokerPhone, buildingSquareFeet, businessId, businessType, cashFlow, city, county, description, employees, facilities, ffe, financingAvailable, grossIncome, homeBased, hotProperty, imageUrl, includesRealEstate, industry, inventoryIncludedInAskingPrice, isFranchise, listingDate, listingUrl, location, profileViews, relocatable, scrapedTimestamp, state, streetAddress, support, title, tpnPhone, tpnPhoneExt, yearEstablished, zip. All 39 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the BizQuest Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set filters. Pick a location, industry, price range, and cash-flow range, then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by BizQuest or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and lead-generation use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

🆘 Need Help?

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