# Daltons Business Scraper - Businesses for Sale UK (`pshivam/daltons-business-scraper`) Actor

Scrape UK businesses for sale from Daltons Business: asking price, leasehold or freehold, turnover, net profit, location, business type, staff and full description. Filter by business type, location, keyword or price. Export to Excel, CSV, JSON or API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-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

## Daltons Business Scraper - Businesses for Sale in the UK

Get **UK businesses for sale** from [Daltons Business](https://www.daltonsbusiness.com), 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

```json
{
  "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.

```python
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:

```json
{"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](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-new-businesses-for-sale-uk)
- [Restaurants for Sale in London](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-restaurants-for-sale-london)
- [Pubs for Sale in the UK](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-pubs-for-sale-uk)
- [Care Homes for Sale in the UK](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-care-homes-for-sale)
- [Hotels and Guest Houses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-hotels-guest-houses-for-sale)
- [Businesses for Sale in Scotland](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-businesses-for-sale-scotland)
- [UK Businesses for Sale Under £100k](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-businesses-for-sale-under-100k)
- [Cafes for Sale in the UK](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-cafes-for-sale)
- [Fish & Chip Shops for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-fish-and-chip-shops-for-sale)
- [Businesses for Sale in Manchester](https://apify.com/pshivam/daltons-business-scraper/examples/daltons-businesses-for-sale-manchester)

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- [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.
- [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.

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- [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

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

Pick one or more business types (e.g. Restaurants, Care Homes, Pubs). Leave empty for all types. Each type is searched separately and duplicates are removed.

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

Towns, counties, regions or countries (e.g. London, Kent, Scotland, Spain). Leave empty for everywhere. With business types too, every type is searched in every location.

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

Only keep listings whose title or summary contains this word, e.g. "freehold" or "takeaway". Not case-sensitive.

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

Skip listings with a lower asking price. Listings without a price (e.g. 'Offers invited') are kept.

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

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

## `includeFranchises` (type: `boolean`):

Daltons also lists franchisors looking for new franchisees. Off = only existing businesses for sale (franchise resales are always included).

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

Optional: Daltons results pages (any category or location page) or single listing URLs, scraped as given.

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

On: price, turnover, profit, business types, full description, staff, trading hours and more. 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 'daltons-business-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
{
  "includeFranchises": false,
  "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`):

Asking price, yearly turnover and net profit 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/daltons-business-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/daltons-business-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/daltons-business-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pshivam/daltons-business-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/axoQaUFkk8fAl9DlM/builds/RLVjbtRgbVnyel7h8/openapi.json