# BusinessForSale AU Scraper - Australian Businesses (`pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper`) Actor

Scrape businesses for sale in Australia from BusinessForSale.com.au: asking price, location, category, revenue and profit bands, year established, reason for sale and full description, plus 3,000+ sold businesses. Filter by state, city, category, price or keyword. Export to Excel, CSV or API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Shivam Prajapati](https://apify.com/pshivam) (community)
- **Categories:** 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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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## BusinessForSale AU Scraper - Australian Businesses for Sale

Get **businesses for sale in Australia** from [BusinessForSale.com.au](https://www.businessforsale.com.au), one of the country's largest marketplaces with **about 5,900 businesses for sale**: asking price, location, category, revenue and profit bands, year established, reason for sale, broker or owner, and the full description. Plus **3,000+ sold businesses** with their last asking price and sale month. Filter by state, city, region, category, price, keyword or franchise, and export to Excel, CSV, JSON or the API.

**Actively maintained.** Last update: 2026-11-04. Every release passes 480+ automated tests on saved BusinessForSale.com.au 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.** Screen every cafe, takeaway, franchise, trade or online business in your state by price instead of paging through the site.
- **Valuation comps.** Sold businesses give you last asking prices by category, location and month: see what cafes in Sydney or franchises in Queensland actually sell for.
- **Deal flow for brokers, accountants and investors.** Schedule a daily run sorted by newest and send new listings to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM.
- **Market research.** Count listings and asking prices by category and state, track how many businesses come to market each month.

### 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` | BusinessForSale.com.au listing ID |
| `url` | Link to the listing |
| `title` | Headline |
| `dealStatus` | `available`, `under offer` or `sold` |
| `sellerType` | `broker` or `owner` (sold by the owner directly) (*details*) |
| `isFeatured` | A paid featured listing |
| `labels` | Labels such as Featured, New, Price Reduced, Under Offer |
| `askingPrice` | Asking price in AUD (lower end of a range; for sold businesses the last asking price) |
| `askingPriceMax` | Upper end of a price range |
| `priceText` | The price as shown, e.g. "$415,000 plus stock at valuation" or "Price on application" |
| `soldDate` | Month the business sold, YYYY-MM (sold businesses) |
| `revenueText` / `revenueMin` / `revenueMax` | Revenue band, e.g. "$1m - $2m", and its limits in AUD (*details*, when given) |
| `profitText` / `profitMin` / `profitMax` | Profit band, e.g. "$100k - $200k", and its limits in AUD (*details*, when given) |
| `category` | Main category, e.g. Food & Drink |
| `subcategory` | Main subcategory, e.g. Butcher Shop (*details*) |
| `categories` | Every category the listing is in (*details*) |
| `businessType` | Business type from the key facts (*details*) |
| `location` | Location as shown, e.g. "Sydney NSW" or "Gold Coast Region, QLD" |
| `region` | Region, e.g. Sydney Region |
| `state` | NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT or NT |
| `established` | When the business started, e.g. "1991" or "25 years" (*details*) |
| `reasonForSale` | Why the owner is selling (*details*) |
| `saleBasis` | Sale basis, e.g. "All inclusive" (*details*) |
| `summary` | Short summary from the results page |
| `description` | Full description (*details*) |
| `reference` | The broker's reference (*details*) |
| `imageUrl` / `imageCount` | Main picture and number of photos |
| `dateUpdated` | When the listing was 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

The scraper never reads the enquiry form or broker profiles, and it **removes e-mail addresses, phone numbers, web links and people's names** given as contacts in the description ("Contact Jane Smith", "Listed by ...") (replaced with `[removed]`). "Wanted" adverts (buyers looking for a business) are skipped.

#### Example result

```json
{
  "listingId": "38jemW10034",
  "title": "Established Electrical Retail Store with Loyal Local Customer Base, Regional Market Reach, and 25 Years of Trading",
  "dealStatus": "available",
  "sellerType": "owner",
  "askingPrice": 730000,
  "priceText": "$730,000",
  "revenueText": "$1m - $2m",
  "revenueMin": 1000000,
  "revenueMax": 2000000,
  "profitText": "$100k - $200k",
  "profitMin": 100000,
  "profitMax": 200000,
  "category": "Home & Garden Retail",
  "subcategory": "Whitegoods",
  "location": "Blackall QLD",
  "region": "Gladstone & Central QLD Region",
  "state": "QLD",
  "established": "25 years",
  "reasonForSale": "Retirement and health reasons",
  "dateUpdated": "2026-10-09",
  "hasDetails": true
}
```

### How to use it

1. Choose **Deals**: businesses for sale, sold businesses, or both.
2. Optionally pick **Locations** (states, cities, regions) and **Categories**, add a **Keyword** or a price range, or choose businesses or franchises only.
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.

#### Input options

| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| `dealTypes` | `forSale` (businesses for sale), `sold` (sold businesses), or both |
| `locations` | States, cities or regions, e.g. `nsw`, `sydney`, `gold-coast`; a suburb like `sydney-nsw-2000` works too |
| `categories` | Categories or subcategories, e.g. `cafe`, `food-drink`, `bakery`, `saas` |
| `keyword` | The site's keyword search, e.g. "coffee" or "freehold" |
| `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | Asking price range in AUD |
| `businessType` | `all`, `business` (independent businesses) or `franchise` |
| `sortBy` | `recommended`, `newest`, `priceLow` or `priceHigh` |
| `startUrls` | BusinessForSale.com.au results pages (any filters) 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 20x fewer requests: title, price, location, category, labels, 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 |
| 1,000 | $3.00 |
| All businesses for sale (~5,900) | 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 with *Sort by* = newest to catch every new listing.
- **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/businessforsale-au-scraper").call(run_input={"locations": ["nsw"], "categories": ["cafe"], "maxItems": 200})
for business in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(business["title"], business["askingPrice"], business["location"])
```

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

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

```json
{"locations": ["sydney"], "categories": ["cafe"], "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

- **All filters are the site's own**, so you only pay for matching listings.
- **The site shows at most 1,000 listings per search.** When you ask for more (e.g. all of Australia), the scraper splits the search by state and then by category automatically, so you still get everything.
- **Sold businesses** can only be searched by state and category (cities count as their state).
- **The site's own count is higher than what you get**: it includes ~1,900 "wanted" adverts (buyers looking for a business), which the scraper skips.
- **Prices and figures are the seller's own**, as published on BusinessForSale.com.au. Many listings say "Contact Agent" or "Price on application" instead of a price. The price filter uses the price the seller entered, so a few matches show "Contact Seller for Price".

### This scraper vs. the alternatives

| | This scraper | Copying from BusinessForSale.com.au 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 and profit bands | Numbers (min/max), 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?

About 5,900 businesses for sale plus 3,000+ sold businesses. The site's own count (about 7,750) also includes about 1,900 'wanted' adverts from buyers, which are skipped.

#### How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 listings (less on paid Apify plans), so 200 listings cost $0.60 and every listing in NSW (about 1,950) about $5.85.

#### Can it get more than 1,000 results?

Yes. The site shows at most 1,000 listings per search, so the scraper splits bigger searches by state and then by category automatically.

#### Is it legal to scrape BusinessForSale.com.au?

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` to enquire on BusinessForSale.com.au.

#### Why are some revenue or profit fields empty?

Only some sellers publish revenue and profit bands. The full description often has more figures.

#### 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:

- [Cafes for Sale in Sydney (BusinessForSale AU)](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-cafes-for-sale-sydney)
- [Businesses for Sale in NSW (BusinessForSale AU)](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-businesses-for-sale-nsw)
- [Franchises for Sale in Australia (BusinessForSale AU)](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-franchises-for-sale-australia)
- [Sold Businesses in Australia for Valuation Comps](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-sold-businesses-valuation-comps)
- [New Businesses for Sale in Australia (Daily Feed)](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-new-business-listings-daily)
- [Online Businesses for Sale in Australia](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-online-businesses-for-sale)
- [Businesses for Sale Under $200k in Queensland](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-businesses-under-200k-queensland)
- [Businesses for Sale in Melbourne (BusinessForSale AU)](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-businesses-for-sale-melbourne)
- [Businesses for Sale in Perth (BusinessForSale AU)](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-businesses-for-sale-perth)
- [Food & Drink Businesses for Sale in Australia](https://apify.com/pshivam/businessforsale-au-scraper/examples/bfsau-food-businesses-for-sale)

### More business-for-sale scrapers

- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Bpifrance Transmission Scraper - Businesses for Sale France](https://apify.com/pshivam/bpifrance-transmission-scraper): about 45,000 French businesses and shops for sale from Bpifrance's partner marketplaces, with price, revenue, EBE, staff, sector and region.

### 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

## `dealTypes` (type: `array`):

Businesses for sale now, sold businesses (with their last asking price and sale month), or both. Default: for sale.

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

States, cities or regions (e.g. NSW, Sydney, Gold Coast Region). Leave empty for all of Australia. A suburb works too, typed like 'sydney-nsw-2000'. Sold businesses can only be searched by state.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Pick one or more business categories (e.g. Cafe, Food & Drink > Bakery, Online > SaaS). Leave empty for all. With locations too, every category is searched in every location; duplicates are removed.

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

The site's keyword search, e.g. "coffee", "freehold" or "NDIS".

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

Only listings asking at least this much (the site's price filter).

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

Only listings asking at most this much (the site's price filter).

## `businessType` (type: `string`):

Independent businesses, franchises (resales and new territories), or both. Businesses for sale only.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of the site's results: recommended (featured first), newest, or by price. Businesses for sale only.

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

Optional: businessforsale.com.au results pages (for sale or sold, with any filters) or single listing URLs, scraped as given.

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

On: full description, all categories, revenue and profit bands, year established, reason for sale, broker or owner, last update. Off: a fast, cheaper run with what the results pages show.

## `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 'businessforsale-au-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
{
  "dealTypes": [
    "forSale"
  ],
  "businessType": "all",
  "sortBy": "recommended",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

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

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

Asking price, revenue and profit bands 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/businessforsale-au-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/businessforsale-au-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/businessforsale-au-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pshivam/businessforsale-au-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/ird3p4YqHiKIz2P1T/builds/UV7raCHvbTEU4EsQK/openapi.json