BizBen Scraper - California Businesses for Sale

Get businesses for sale from BizBen, California's largest business-for-sale marketplace with 6,000+ listings (about half in California, the rest across the US, including Transworld Business Advisors listings): asking price, revenue, cash flow, down payment, year established, employees, FF&E, inventory, lease details, category, business types and the full description. Filter by state, county, city, category, price or cash flow, and export to Excel, CSV, JSON or the API.

Actively maintained. Last update: 2026-11-04. Every release passes 310+ automated tests on saved BizBen pages plus a check against the live site, and Apify test-runs it every day.

What can you use it for?

• Find a business to buy in California. Screen every restaurant, liquor store, gas station, laundromat or route business in your county by price and cash flow instead of paging through the site.
• Deal flow for buyers, brokers and SBA lenders. Schedule a daily run and send new listings to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM; use the attributes field to find SBA pre-qualified, absentee-run or real-estate-included deals.
• Valuation comps. Asking price, revenue and cash flow for thousands of small businesses: compute price-to-cash-flow multiples by type, county or state.
• Market research. Count listings and asking prices by category and county, track what comes to market.

What data do you get?

Fields marked details are filled when Open each listing for full details is on (the default).

Field	What it is
listingId	BizBen posting ID (e.g. 177992), or tw:92422 for a listing from a broker network
url	Link to the listing
title	Headline
source	BizBen, or the broker network, e.g. Transworld Business Advisors
isFastTrack	A paid FastTrack (promoted) listing
askingPrice	Asking price in USD (empty for "Call/Email")
priceText	The price as shown
revenue	Yearly revenue (gross sales) in USD
cashFlow	Yearly cash flow (seller's discretionary earnings) in USD
downPayment	Down payment as given, e.g. "$100,000" or "35~40% SBA" (details)
ffeValue	Furniture, fixtures & equipment value (details)
inventoryValue	Inventory value (details)
yearEstablished	Year the business started (details)
employees	Number of employees (details)
reasonForSale	Why the owner is selling (details)
supportAndTraining	Training and support the seller offers (details)
squareFeet	Premises size (details)
leaseExpiration	Lease expiration date (details)
leaseTerms	Lease terms and options as given (details)
category	BizBen category, e.g. "Restaurants & Food" (details)
businessTypes	Business types, e.g. Bakery, Liquor Store (details)
attributes	e.g. Absentee Run, SBA Loan Pre-Qualified, Real Estate Included, For Sale By Owner (details)
location	Location as shown, e.g. "Compton, Los Angeles County, California"
city / county / state / stateCode	The location split into parts
summary	Short summary from the results page
description	Full description (details)
listingNumber	The broker's own listing number (details)
imageUrl	Main picture (empty when the listing only has BizBen's stock picture)
datePosted / dateUpdated	When the listing was posted and last updated, YYYY-MM-DD (details)
hasDetails	true if the listing page was opened
foundOn	The results page where the listing was found
scrapedAt	When it was scraped (UTC)

Privacy

BizBen listing pages show the seller's or broker's name, phone and e-mail. The scraper never collects them: it skips the contact box, the contact line under the description and the contact form, and it removes any e-mail address, phone number, web link or contact name typed into the description (replaced with [removed]).

Example result

{
  "listingId": "9849655",
  "title": "ASK $3.65M: Liquor with Property: Month Sales $150K: Lot 9612sf, Building 7055sf",
  "source": "BizBen",
  "isFastTrack": true,
  "askingPrice": 3650000,
  "revenue": 1800000,
  "cashFlow": 264000,
  "downPayment": "$1,000,000",
  "yearEstablished": 2022,
  "employees": 8,
  "reasonForSale": "To purchase gas station",
  "squareFeet": 7055,
  "category": "Retail",
  "businessTypes": ["Liquor Store"],
  "attributes": ["Absentee Run", "License (Liquor, etc.)", "Real Estate Included", "SBA Loan Pre-Qualified", "Training And Support"],
  "location": "Compton, Los Angeles County, California",
  "city": "Compton",
  "county": "Los Angeles County",
  "stateCode": "CA",
  "datePosted": "2026-09-21",
  "hasDetails": true
}

How to use it

1. Optionally pick Locations (states, counties or cities) and Categories.
2. Optionally add a Keyword, a price range or a minimum cash flow.
3. Set Maximum listings, click Start, and download the results.

Every location is searched with every category, and duplicates are removed. With several searches, Maximum listings is shared fairly between them. With no location, every state is searched.

Input options

Option	What it does
locations	States, counties or cities, e.g. california-state-ca, alameda-county-california-ca, houston-texas-tx (names like "Texas" or "CA" work too)
categories	Categories, e.g. bakery-for-sale, liquor-store-for-sale
keyword	Only listings whose title, summary, type or attributes contain this word, e.g. "SBA" or "absentee"
minPrice / maxPrice	Asking price range in USD (listings without a price are kept)
minCashFlow	Minimum yearly cash flow in USD (listings that don't give it are kept)
startUrls	BizBen results pages or single listing URLs, scraped as given
includeDetails	Open each listing for the full set of fields (default on). Turn off for a fast, cheaper run
onlyNew	Skip listings that earlier runs of the same search returned: you get and pay only for ones you haven't had (the first run works as usual)
maxItems	Stop after this many listings
maxConcurrency	Pages loaded at the same time (keep low to be polite)

Fast mode vs. full details

• Full details (default): opens every listing for all the fields above.
• Fast mode (includeDetails off): reads only the results pages, about 40x fewer requests: title, price, sometimes cash flow, location, summary and picture.

How much does it cost?

You pay $3.00 per 1,000 listings returned (plus a tiny $0.00005 per run start). Platform usage is included.

Listings	Cost
100	$0.30
All of California (~3,000)	about $9
Everything (~6,000)	about $18

Apify's free plan gives you $5 of credit every month. Set a spending limit on any run and the scraper stops exactly there.

Use it via API, on a schedule, or with your tools

• Schedule it daily to catch new listings.
• Only new listings: turn it on in a scheduled run or task and each run returns only listings you haven't had yet, so you never pay twice for the same listing.
• Integrations: send results to Google Sheets, Slack, e-mail, Zapier, Make or a webhook.
• API: run it from your own code and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("pshivam/bizben-scraper").call(run_input={"locations": ["Los Angeles County, CA"], "minCashFlow": 100000, "maxItems": 200})
for business in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(business["title"], business["askingPrice"], business["cashFlow"])

Use it in Clay, n8n, Make or Zapier

Actor: pshivam/bizben-scraper. Paste this input and change the filters to yours:

{"locations": ["los-angeles-county-california-ca"], "minCashFlow": 100000, "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 500}

• Clay: create a table from an Apify source to pull in the results of a scheduled run of this Actor (it refreshes every 24 hours by default), or use the Run Apify Actor enrichment and paste the input.
• n8n: add the Apify node, choose Run Actor and get dataset items, pick this Actor and paste the input.
• Make: use Run an Actor with Run synchronously on, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID.
• Zapier: schedule this Actor in Apify, then use the Finished Actor Run trigger and Fetch Dataset Items. (Zapier stops waiting for Run Actor after 30 seconds, and a run usually takes about a minute.)

Good to know

• Filters are checked before a listing is opened, so you only pay for matches. Locations and categories are BizBen's own pages.
• Not every category has a page for every place. Then the scraper searches the category in the state (or nationwide) and keeps only listings in your place; you see a note in the run log.
• FastTrack listings come first on BizBen's pages, then the rest.
• Figures are the seller's own, as published on BizBen. Many listings say "Call/Email" instead of a figure.

This scraper vs. the alternatives

	This scraper	Copying from BizBen by hand	Building your own scraper
100 listings with full details	About 1 minute	Hours (open and copy each page)	Days to build, then upkeep
Output	Excel, CSV, JSON or API; 36 fields per listing	A spreadsheet you type	Whatever you code
Asking price, revenue, cash flow, down payment	Numbers in USD, ready to sort	Retyped by hand	You write the parsing
Only new listings each day	Built in (onlyNew)	Compare lists yourself	You build it
When the site changes	We fix it; Apify test-runs it daily	-	You fix it
Seller contact details	Removed	Your responsibility	Your responsibility
Cost	$3.00 per 1,000 listings	Your time	Your time plus hosting

FAQ

How many listings are there?

6,000+: about 3,100 in California and the rest across other US states.

How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 listings (less on paid Apify plans), so 300 listings cost $0.90 and every California listing about $9.

Is it legal to scrape BizBen?

This scraper reads public listing pages at a polite speed, follows the site's robots.txt and returns business data with contact details removed. You are responsible for how you use the data; check the site's terms for your use case.

Can I get the seller's or broker's contact details?

No. Use the listing url to contact them through BizBen.

Why do some listings have two IDs like tw:92422?

Those come from a broker network (Transworld Business Advisors) and are shown on BizBen too; listingNumber is the broker's own number.

How do I get only new listings every day?

Save your search as a task, turn on Only new listings and schedule it daily. Each run then skips the listings earlier runs returned, so you get and pay only for ones you haven't had. Tip: set Maximum listings above the number of listings your search has, so the first run gets them all and later runs return just the new ones.

Ready-made examples

Open one, click Try for free, and get data in about a minute:

• Businesses for Sale in California (BizBen)
• Businesses for Sale in Los Angeles County (BizBen)
• Restaurants for Sale in California (BizBen)
• Gas Stations for Sale in California (BizBen)
• Liquor Stores for Sale in California (BizBen)
• SBA Pre-Qualified Businesses With $100k+ Cash Flow
• Businesses for Sale in Texas (BizBen)
• Laundromats for Sale (BizBen)
• Businesses for Sale in San Diego County (BizBen)
• Daycare Centers & Preschools for Sale (BizBen)

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