Franchise Resale Scraper

Franchise Resale Scraper

Scrape franchise resale listings from FranchiseResale.com, filtered by keyword or category, up to a million per run. Every listing includes the asking price, revenue, cash flow, location, and full business description. No login required. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

Finding a franchise to buy means sifting through hundreds of scattered listings with inconsistent data. This Actor reads the public listing feeds on FranchiseResale.com directly, letting you pull every available resale opportunity into one clean dataset. Filter by keyword or choose from over 100 built-in categories, from fast food and fitness to automotive and senior care, and get the exact slice of the market you need.

Who uses it	What they scrape Franchise Resale for
Business brokers	Build a live inventory feed of available franchises for client newsletters and websites.
Franchise investors	Compare asking prices and cash flow multiples across brands to spot undervalued deals.
Market analysts	Track listing volume and average asking prices by category to gauge market health.
Lead generation services	Collect fresh seller leads daily and enrich a CRM with structured deal data.

What it does

This Actor collects franchise resale listings from FranchiseResale.com by search query or category and returns each one as a flat row with price, financials, and description.

• 🔍 Keyword search: enter any term like 'subway', 'pizza', or 'fitness' to pull matching listings across all categories.
• 📂 Category filter: pick from over 100 predefined categories such as Automotive, Senior Care, or Retail to narrow results.
• ⚡ Parallel detail scraping: each listing card is followed to its full detail page so you get the complete financials and description.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with Franchise Resale data

📊 Build a deal pipeline.

An investor scrapes all listings in the Food and Restaurant category weekly, filters for cash flow above $150,000, and reviews only the top opportunities.

📍 Find local opportunities.

A broker scrapes every listing with the keyword 'Texas' to populate a regional newsletter with fresh franchise resales each Monday.

🏷️ Monitor a specific brand.

A franchise consultant searches for 'Subway' resales daily, tracking how asking prices trend over time to advise clients on fair market value.

📈 Analyze category trends.

A market researcher scrapes the entire site monthly, grouping listings by category to report on which franchise segments are seeing the most churn.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
Asking price	The listed sale price for the franchise resale opportunity.
Revenue and cash flow	Reported gross revenue and seller's discretionary earnings for each listing.
Location data	City and state where the business operates.
Full description	The complete text the seller wrote about the business and its operations.

How it compares

No other Store actor targets Franchise Resale the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	Franchise Resale Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When Franchise Resale changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

Configure the run

Drive the Actor with a search keyword, a category slug, or leave both blank to scrape every listing on the site, and filters run as each listing is read so only matches reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

A larger pull:

{
  "maxItems": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.03199 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$3.20
1,000 results	$31.99
10,000 results	$319.90

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Franchise Resale Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Franchise Resale through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/franchise-resale-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting zero results?

Check that your Search Query or Category filter is not too narrow. Try leaving both blank to confirm the scraper can reach the site. Also verify that residential proxies are enabled in the Proxy Configuration.

The run fails with a timeout or proxy error.

FranchiseResale.com blocks datacenter IPs aggressively. Make sure the Proxy Configuration is set to use Apify residential proxies. If the problem persists, lower the Max Concurrency to 3 and retry.

Some listings are missing financial data.

Not every seller publishes revenue or cash flow figures. The scraper returns whatever the seller provided. If a field is empty in the output, the information was not present on the detail page.

The scraper is running very slowly.

This is usually caused by a low Max Concurrency setting. Increase it to 10 or 15 if you are not being rate-limited. If you are seeing blocks, keep it low and accept the longer runtime.

I only got 10 results but I set Max Items higher.

Free Apify accounts are limited to 10 items per run as a preview. Upgrade to a paid plan to remove this limit and scrape up to 1,000,000 listings.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need a login or API key to scrape FranchiseResale.com?	No. This Actor reads the public listing pages directly. You only need an Apify account and residential proxies, which are preconfigured in the input.
What data fields does the scraper return?	Each row includes the listing title, asking price, revenue, cash flow, location, category, and the full text description. The exact field list is shown in the sample output on the Dataset tab after a test run.
Can I scrape only listings from a specific category?	Yes. Use the Category dropdown in the input to pick from over 100 categories like Automotive, Fitness, or Senior Care. Leave it blank to scrape all categories.
How do I search for a specific franchise brand?	Enter the brand name in the Search Query field, for example 'pizza' or 'subway'. The scraper will return every listing whose title or description matches that keyword.
What is the maximum number of listings I can scrape?	Free users are limited to 10 items for preview. Paid users can set the Max Items field up to 1,000,000 to pull the entire available inventory.
Why do I need residential proxies?	FranchiseResale.com blocks requests from datacenter IP addresses. The input is preconfigured to use Apify's residential proxies, which route traffic through real consumer IPs to avoid blocks.
Can I run this scraper on a schedule?	Yes. After publishing the Actor, you can set a schedule in Apify Console to run it daily, weekly, or at any custom interval to keep your dataset fresh.
Does the scraper follow links to individual listing detail pages?	Yes. It first collects listing cards from search or category pages, then visits each detail page in parallel to extract the full financials and description.
What export formats are supported?	You can export your results to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML directly from the Apify Dataset tab after the run completes.
How do I avoid getting rate-limited?	Lower the Max Concurrency setting in Advanced Options. The default is 10 parallel requests. Reducing this to 3 or 5 will slow the scrape but reduce the chance of being blocked.

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🆘 Need help? Email parseforge@protonmail.com with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Franchise Resale. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.