Daltons Business Scraper - Businesses for Sale in the UK

Get UK businesses for sale from Daltons Business, one of the UK's largest business-for-sale marketplaces: about 13,000 listings with asking price, leasehold or freehold, turnover, net profit, location, business type, staff, trading hours and the full description. Filter by 770+ business types, 1,600 locations (towns, counties, Scotland, Wales, Spain ...), keyword or price, and export to Excel, CSV, JSON or the API.

Actively maintained. Last update: 2026-11-04. Every release passes 450+ automated tests on saved Daltons Business 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 restaurants, pubs, care homes, shops, B&Bs or online businesses by location, price and turnover instead of clicking through 650 result pages.
• Deal sourcing for brokers, investors and search funds. Pull every listing in a sector or region with its financials and send the best ones to your CRM.
• Valuation research. Compare asking prices with turnover and net profit across thousands of UK small businesses to see what similar businesses sell for.
• Daily new-listing alerts. Schedule it with Only new listings on: you get (and pay for) only the businesses you haven't had yet, in Google Sheets, Slack or e-mail.

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	Daltons listing ID, e.g. DB2573832
url	Link to the listing
title	Headline
status	For Sale or Under Offer
isFeatured	Featured (paid placement) on Daltons
isFranchiseOpportunity	A franchisor looking for franchisees, not an existing business
labels	All labels, e.g. "Retirement sale"
priceType	What the price is for: leasehold, freehold or investment
askingPrice	Asking price as a number (empty for "Offers invited")
currency	GBP, EUR or USD
priceText	The price as shown, e.g. "£195,000" or "Offers invited"
annualTurnover	Turnover per year (weekly x 52, monthly x 12)
turnover / turnoverPeriod	Turnover as the seller gave it, and its period (annual, monthly, weekly)
annualNetProfit	Net profit per year
netProfit / netProfitPeriod	Net profit as the seller gave it, and its period
location	Location as shown, e.g. "Manchester, Greater Manchester, England"
town, county, country	The same, split up
categories	Business types the listing is filed under (details)
category	First business type (details)
sellerRef	The seller's or broker's own reference (details)
shortDescription	Summary from the results page
description	Full description (details)
locationDetails	Extra location notes (details)
employees	Number of employees, as written by the seller (details)
tradingHours	Trading hours (details)
supportAndTraining	Handover support offered (details)
leaseholdTerms	Lease terms: rent, length (details)
otherTerms	Other terms of the sale (details)
isRelocatable	The business can be moved (details)
isHomeBased	Run from home (details)
includesAccommodation	Living accommodation included (details)
inAdministration	In administration or receivership (details)
stockIncluded	Whether stock is included, e.g. "Stock at valuation" (details)
imageUrl	First photo
imageCount	Number of photos (details)
datePublished / dateModified	When the listing was published 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)

Weekly and monthly figures are converted to yearly ones (annualTurnover, annualNetProfit) so you can sort every listing the same way; the seller's original figure and period are kept next to them.

Privacy

You get business data, not personal data. The scraper never reads the contact form, the "Listed By" broker block or the business's own website address, and it removes any e-mail address, phone number or web link typed into the description (replaced with [removed]). To contact a seller, use the listing url.

Example result

{
  "listingId": "DB2573832",
  "title": "Long established Thai restaurant in city centre of Manchester",
  "status": "For Sale",
  "priceType": "leasehold",
  "askingPrice": 195000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "priceText": "£195,000",
  "annualTurnover": 600000,
  "location": "Manchester, Greater Manchester, England",
  "town": "Manchester",
  "county": "Greater Manchester",
  "country": "England",
  "categories": ["Chinese Restaurants", "Chinese Takeaways", "Fast Food Restaurants", "Restaurants", "Thai Restaurants"],
  "employees": "4",
  "tradingHours": "11.30-9.30 pm Monday to Sunday",
  "leaseholdTerms": "Rent 15900 quarterly End July 2030",
  "isRelocatable": false,
  "stockIncluded": "Stock at valuation",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-14",
  "hasDetails": true
}

How to use it

1. Optionally pick Business types and Locations (or leave both empty for every business, newest first).
2. Optionally add a Keyword or a price range.
3. Set Maximum listings, click Start, and download the results.

With several types or locations, every type is searched in every location and Maximum listings is shared fairly between those searches.

Input options

Option	What it does
categories	Business types, e.g. Restaurants, Pubs, Nursing & Care Homes (770+, from Daltons' own list)
locations	Towns, counties, regions or countries, e.g. London, Kent, Scotland, Spain
keyword	Only listings whose title or summary contains this word
minPrice / maxPrice	Asking price range in £ (listings without a price are kept)
includeFranchises	Also return new franchise opportunities (franchise resales are always included)
startUrls	Daltons 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 result pages, about 20x fewer requests. You get title, status, price and price type, turnover and net profit (when shown), location, summary and photo.

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
Everything (~13,000 listings)	about $39

Apify's free plan gives you $5 of credit every month, which covers about 1,600 listings. 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 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.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("pshivam/daltons-business-scraper").call(run_input={"categories": ["Restaurants"], "locations": ["London"], "maxItems": 100})
for listing in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(listing["title"], listing["askingPrice"], listing["annualTurnover"], listing["location"])

Use it in Clay, n8n, Make or Zapier

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

{"categories": ["cafes-for-sale"], "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

• Business type and location filters cost nothing extra: Daltons has a page for each, so the scraper starts there. Keyword and price are checked on each result before a listing is opened, so you only pay for matches.
• Figures are the seller's own. Some sellers write "N/A" or leave figures out; those fields are then empty.
• Unknown locations return nothing, never everything. Daltons quietly shows all of the UK for a location it doesn't know; the scraper detects that and returns no results for it instead of wrong ones.
• Sold or withdrawn listings are skipped and replaced with the next one.

This scraper vs. the alternatives

	This scraper	Copying from Daltons Business 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; 44 fields per listing	A spreadsheet you type	Whatever you code
Asking price, turnover, net profit	Numbers; weekly or monthly figures converted to yearly	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 13,000 UK businesses for sale, in 770+ business types and 1,600 locations.

How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 listings (less on paid Apify plans), so 100 listings cost $0.30 and all of about 13,000 cost about $39.

What's the difference between a business for sale and a franchise opportunity?

Businesses for sale are existing businesses (including franchise resales). Franchise opportunities are franchisors looking for new franchisees, with an investment amount instead of an asking price. They are left out unless you turn on Include new franchise opportunities or pick a franchise business type.

Is it legal to scrape Daltons Business?

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 contact the seller through Daltons.

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:

• New Businesses for Sale in the UK
• Restaurants for Sale in London
• Pubs for Sale in the UK
• Care Homes for Sale in the UK
• Hotels and Guest Houses for Sale
• Businesses for Sale in Scotland
• UK Businesses for Sale Under £100k
• Cafes for Sale in the UK
• Fish & Chip Shops for Sale
• Businesses for Sale in Manchester

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