# Bpifrance Transmission Scraper - Businesses for Sale France (`pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper`) Actor

Scrape businesses for sale in France from Bpifrance's Bourse de la Transmission (~45,000 listings from approved partners): price, revenue, EBE, staff, sector, department, region and partner. Filter by sector, region, city, price or keyword. Export to Excel, CSV or API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Shivam Prajapati](https://apify.com/pshivam) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.10 / 1,000 listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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# README

## Bpifrance Transmission Scraper - Businesses for Sale in France

Get **businesses for sale in France** from [Bpifrance's Bourse de la Transmission](https://reprise-entreprise.bpifrance.fr), the public bank's marketplace that gathers **about 45,000 listings** (entreprises et commerces à vendre) from approved partners such as Cession PME, Transentreprise and Les annonces du commerce: asking price, revenue (CA), EBE, staff, surface, sector, department, region and the partner who published it. Filter by sector, region, city, price or keyword, and export to Excel, CSV, JSON or the API.

**Actively maintained.** Last update: 2026-11-04. Every release passes 190+ automated tests on saved Bpifrance 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 France.** Screen every bakery, bar, restaurant, shop or service business in your region by price, revenue and EBE, from one place instead of five partner sites.
- **Deal flow for buyers, brokers and advisers.** Schedule a daily run and send new listings to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM.
- **Valuation research.** Price, revenue and EBE as numbers for thousands of small businesses: compare multiples by sector and region.
- **Market research.** Count listings by sector, department, region and partner; see what comes to market where.

### What data do you get?

Fields marked *details* are filled when **Open each listing for its description** is on (the default). Everything else comes from the list pages.

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `listingId` | Bpifrance listing ID |
| `url` | Link to the listing |
| `title` | Listing title |
| `sector` | Commerce, Restauration, Tourisme, Production or Services |
| `offerType` | `business` or `franchise` |
| `price` | Asking price in EUR (empty when not disclosed) |
| `priceText` | The price as shown, e.g. "155 K€" |
| `revenue` / `revenueText` | Yearly revenue (CA) in EUR, and as shown |
| `ebitda` / `ebitdaText` | EBE (French EBITDA) in EUR, and as shown |
| `employeesMin` / `employeesMax` / `employeesText` | Staff |
| `surfaceM2` | Surface in m², when given |
| `location` | Department as shown, e.g. "Nord (59)" |
| `departmentCode` | Department number |
| `department` | Department name |
| `region` | Region |
| `partners` | Approved partner(s) that published the listing |
| `published` | Age as shown, e.g. "Publié il y a 1 jour" |
| `isNew` | Marked "Nouveau" |
| `description` | Short description (*details*) |
| `hasDetails` | `true` if the listing page was opened |
| `foundOn` | The list page where the listing was found |
| `scrapedAt` | When it was scraped (UTC) |

#### Privacy

Listings are anonymous. The scraper never reads the contact forms or follows the partners' tracking links, and it **removes any e-mail address, phone number or web link** from the description (replaced with `[removed]`).

#### Example result

```json
{
  "listingId": "663153",
  "title": "Boucherie - Charcuterie Dechy",
  "sector": "Commerce",
  "offerType": "business",
  "price": 155000,
  "priceText": "155 K€",
  "revenue": 310000,
  "surfaceM2": 120,
  "location": "Nord (59)",
  "department": "Nord",
  "region": "Hauts-de-France",
  "partners": ["Cession PME"],
  "published": "Publié il y a 1 jour",
  "isNew": true
}
```

### How to use it

1. Pick **Sectors** and/or **Regions / cities** (or leave both empty for every sector in all of France).
2. Optionally add a **Keyword** (e.g. boulangerie, bar, garage) and a price range.
3. Set **Maximum listings**, click **Start**, and download the results.

With several sectors or places, *Maximum listings* is shared fairly between them.

#### Input options

| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| `sectors` | `commerce`, `restauration`, `production`, `services` (empty = all four) |
| `locations` | Regions or big cities with their own page on the site, e.g. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, Paris |
| `keyword` | Only listings that mention this word (title and description; title only in fast mode) |
| `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | Asking price range in EUR (listings without a price are kept) |
| `startUrls` | A sector or region/city list, or single listing URLs, scraped as given |
| `includeDetails` | Open each listing for its description (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. details

- **Details (default):** adds the short description from each listing page (the full file is on the partner's site).
- **Fast mode (`includeDetails` off):** reads only the list pages, 60 listings per request: everything except the description.

### 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 |
| One city (e.g. Lyon, ~750) | about $2.25 |
| One region (e.g. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, ~5,700) | about $17 |

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 or weekly to catch every new listing (newest come first).
- **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.

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper").call(run_input={"locations": ["Lyon"], "sectors": ["restauration"], "maxItems": 100})
for business in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(business["title"], business["price"], business["revenue"], business["partners"])
```

#### Use it in Clay, n8n, Make or Zapier

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

```json
{"locations": ["Lyon"], "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 1000, "includeDetails": false}
```

- **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

- **It is an aggregator**: listings come from Bpifrance's approved partners, and the same business can also appear on the partner's own site (e.g. Transentreprise). The `partners` field says where.
- **Sector and place lists are the site's own.** With both a place and sectors, the scraper reads the place list and keeps the sectors you chose.
- **Figures are the seller's own.** When a published EBE is impossible (higher than the revenue, a partner typo), `ebitda` is left empty and `ebitdaText` shows what the site says.
- **Places are the ones the site has pages for**: all regions and about 70 big cities.

### This scraper vs. the alternatives

| | This scraper | Copying from Bpifrance by hand | Building your own scraper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 listings (fast mode) | About 1 minute | Days | Days to build, then upkeep |
| Output | Excel, CSV, JSON or API; 26 fields per listing | A spreadsheet you type | Whatever you code |
| Price, revenue, EBE | Numbers in EUR, 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 |
| 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?

About 45,000 across the four sectors (Restauration, Tourisme alone has about 23,000), from approved partners all over France.

#### How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 listings (less on paid Apify plans), so 100 listings cost $0.30 and a big city like Lyon about $2.25.

#### Who publishes the listings?

Bpifrance's approved partners, for example Cession PME, Transentreprise, Les annonces du commerce, Place des Commerces and CRA. The `partners` field names them.

#### Is it legal to scrape Bpifrance's Bourse de la Transmission?

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 contact details?

No. Use the listing `url`: the page links to the partner who holds the full file.

#### 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 France (Bpifrance Transmission)](https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper/examples/bpi-businesses-for-sale-france)
- [Restaurants and Hotels for Sale in France (Bpifrance)](https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper/examples/bpi-restaurants-for-sale-france)
- [Shops and Retail Businesses for Sale in France](https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper/examples/bpi-shops-for-sale-france)
- [Businesses for Sale in Lyon (Bpifrance)](https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper/examples/bpi-businesses-for-sale-lyon)
- [Businesses for Sale in Paris (Bpifrance)](https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper/examples/bpi-businesses-for-sale-paris)

### More business-for-sale scrapers

- [Transentreprise Scraper - Businesses for Sale France](https://apify.com/pshivam/transentreprise-scraper): the CCI and CMA chambers' marketplace in France with price, revenue and staff bands, sector, department and region.
- [BusinessBroker.net Scraper - Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessbroker-net-scraper): US businesses for sale with asking price, revenue, cash flow and location.
- [DUB.de Scraper - Businesses for Sale in Germany](https://apify.com/pshivam/dub-de-scraper): companies for sale in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with year-by-year financials.
- [nexxt-change Scraper - Businesses for Sale & Buyers](https://apify.com/pshivam/nexxt-change-scraper): Germany's official succession marketplace, companies for sale and buyers looking for a company.
- [Daltons Business Scraper - Businesses for Sale UK](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper): UK businesses for sale with asking price, leasehold or freehold, turnover, net profit and location.
- [Website Closers Scraper - Online Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper): online and tech businesses for sale (eCommerce, SaaS, Amazon FBA) with asking price, cash flow and revenue, plus closed deals for valuation comps.
- [BusinessForSale AU Scraper - Australian Businesses](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper): Australian businesses for sale with asking price, revenue and profit bands, location and category, plus sold businesses for valuation comps.
- [BizBen Scraper - California Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/bizben-scraper): California and other US businesses for sale with asking price, revenue, cash flow, down payment and lease details.
- [LINK Business Scraper - Businesses for Sale NZ & AU](https://apify.com/pshivam/link-business-scraper): New Zealand's largest business broker and its Australian offices, with asking price, profit, revenue, industry and location.

### Other scrapers

- [Trade Show Scraper - Worldwide Trade Fair Calendar](https://apify.com/pshivam/trade-show-scraper): trade shows and exhibitions worldwide with dates, venue, city, country, industries and the official website.
- [CeX Scraper - Prices, Trade-In Values & Stock](https://apify.com/pshivam/cex-scraper): CeX (webuy.com) second-hand phones, games and laptops in 11 countries with sell price, cash and voucher trade-in value, stock by store and price history.
- [DealSeek Scraper - Amazon Deals & Promo Codes](https://apify.com/pshivam/dealseek-scraper): Amazon, Walmart and eBay deals in 8 countries with final prices, verified promo codes, coupons and price history.

# Actor input Schema

## `sectors` (type: `array`):

Commerce, Restauration & Tourisme, Production or Services. Empty = all four.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Only these regions or big cities, e.g. 'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes', 'Lyon' or 'Paris'. Empty = all of France.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Only listings that mention this word, e.g. "boulangerie", "bar" or "garage". Checked in the title and description (title only in fast mode). Not case- or accent-sensitive.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Skip listings with a lower asking price. Listings without a price are kept.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Skip listings with a higher asking price. Listings without a price are kept.

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

Optional: a sector or region/city list, or single listing URLs, scraped as given.

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

On: adds the short description. Off: a fast, cheaper run with everything else (price, revenue, EBE, staff, location, partner) from the list pages.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Skip listings that earlier runs of this same search already returned, so you never get or pay for the same listing twice. Turn it on for a scheduled run or a saved task to get only what's new each time. The first run works as usual and remembers what it returned, in your key-value store 'bpifrance-transmission-scraper-only-new' (delete it to start over).

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

Stop after this many listings. You are charged per listing.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Pages loaded at the same time. Keep it low to be polite to the website.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per business for sale, shown with the overview view.

## `financials` (type: `string`):

Price, revenue, EBE and staff as numbers for sorting and filtering.

## `runStats` (type: `string`):

Requests made, time spent and number of listings for this run (RUN_STATS record).

# 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("pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-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("pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-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 pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-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/fR7XSkHjUyX54vRI9/builds/HgDdSem8u3NDdMr4c/openapi.json