# Website Closers Scraper - Online Businesses for Sale (`pshivam/website-closers-scraper`) Actor

Scrape online and tech businesses for sale from Website Closers: asking price, cash flow, revenue, year established, business type and full description, plus ~1,800 closed deals for valuation comps. Filter by keyword, price, cash flow or SBA. Export to Excel, CSV, JSON or API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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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

## Website Closers Scraper - Online Businesses for Sale & Closed Deals

Get **online and tech businesses for sale** from [Website Closers](https://www.websiteclosers.com), one of the largest brokers for eCommerce, SaaS, Amazon FBA, agencies and service businesses: asking price, cash flow, revenue, year established, business type and the full description. Plus about **1,800 closed deals** (sold businesses with their asking price and cash flow) for valuation comps. Filter by keyword, price, cash flow or SBA pre-qualification, and export to Excel, CSV, JSON or the API.

**Actively maintained.** Last update: 2026-11-04. Every release passes 340+ automated tests on saved Website Closers pages plus a check against the live site, and Apify test-runs it every day.

### What can you use it for?

- **Find an online business to buy.** Screen every eCommerce, SaaS, Amazon FBA, agency or MSP listing by price and cash flow instead of paging through the site.
- **Valuation comps.** Closed deals give you asking price and cash flow for ~1,800 sold businesses: compute price-to-cash-flow multiples by business type or size.
- **Deal flow for search funds, investors and buyers' advisors.** Schedule a daily run and send new listings to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM.
- **SBA-financeable deals.** Pull only listings marked SBA pre-qualified, with their cash flow, to match buyers who need bank financing.

### 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` | Website Closers listing ID |
| `url` | Link to the listing |
| `title` | Headline (key numbers are often in it) |
| `dealStatus` | `available`, `pending` (under contract) or `sold` |
| `reference` | Website Closers reference, e.g. WC 4136 (*details*) |
| `codeName` | The deal's code name, e.g. "Project Bluecrest" (*details*) |
| `businessType` | e.g. "Amazon FBA Company", "MSP", "CPG Brand" (*details*) |
| `askingPrice` | Asking price in USD (empty for "Offers invited") |
| `priceText` | The price as shown, e.g. "$625,000" or "Offers Invited" |
| `cashFlow` | Yearly cash flow (seller's discretionary earnings) in USD |
| `grossRevenue` | Yearly gross revenue in USD (*details*) |
| `yearEstablished` | Year the business started (*details*) |
| `employees` | Number of employees, when given (*details*) |
| `sbaPreQualified` | Marked SBA pre-qualified / pre-approved |
| `summary` | Short summary from the list page |
| `description` | Full description (*details*) |
| `imageUrl` | Listing picture |
| `datePublished` / `dateModified` | When the listing was published and last updated, YYYY-MM-DD (*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 confidential: Website Closers shows a code name, never the business's name. The scraper never reads the contact or NDA forms or broker profiles, and it **removes any e-mail address, phone number or web link** from the description (replaced with `[removed]`).

#### Example result

```json
{
  "listingId": "119767",
  "title": "SBA Pre-Qualified Managed Service Provider (MSP) | Outsourced IT | Strong 2026 Growth | 10-Year MSP | 120 Active Clients | Full Team in Place",
  "dealStatus": "available",
  "reference": "WC 4136",
  "codeName": "CyberOps",
  "businessType": "MSP",
  "askingPrice": 625000,
  "priceText": "$625,000",
  "cashFlow": 150000,
  "grossRevenue": 180000,
  "yearEstablished": 2016,
  "sbaPreQualified": true,
  "datePublished": "2026-10-30",
  "hasDetails": true
}
```

### How to use it

1. Choose **Deals**: businesses for sale, closed deals, or both.
2. Optionally add a **Keyword** (e.g. SaaS, Amazon, agency), a price range, a minimum cash flow or **Only SBA pre-qualified**.
3. Set **Maximum listings**, click **Start**, and download the results.

With both deal types, *Maximum listings* is shared fairly between them.

#### Input options

| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| `dealTypes` | `forSale` (businesses for sale), `closed` (closed deals), or both |
| `keyword` | Only listings whose title or summary contains this word |
| `minAskingPrice` / `maxAskingPrice` | Asking price range in USD ("Offers invited" listings are kept) |
| `minCashFlow` | Minimum yearly cash flow in USD |
| `sbaOnly` | Only listings marked SBA pre-qualified |
| `startUrls` | A Website Closers list page 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, and the true sale status from the listing page.
- **Fast mode (`includeDetails` off):** reads only the list pages, about 10x fewer requests: title, status, asking price, cash flow, SBA flag, summary and picture. The status then comes from the list page, which the site doesn't always update (some "Pending" deals have actually sold).

### 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 businesses for sale (~240) | about $0.72 |
| All closed deals (~1,700) | about $5.10 |

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/website-closers-scraper").call(run_input={"dealTypes": ["closed"], "maxItems": 500, "includeDetails": False})
for deal in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(deal["title"], deal["askingPrice"], deal["cashFlow"])
```

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

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

```json
{"dealTypes": ["forSale"], "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 300}
```

- **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. Website Closers' own search and sorting run in the browser, so the scraper reads the lists in the site's order (newest first).
- **One featured listing is pinned to the top of every list page**; you get it once.
- **Old closed deals often have no page left.** You still get them, with what the closed-deals list shows (title, summary, asking price, cash flow; `hasDetails` = false).
- **Figures are the seller's own**, as published by Website Closers.

### This scraper vs. the alternatives

| | This scraper | Copying from Website Closers 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; 22 fields per listing | A spreadsheet you type | Whatever you code |
| Asking price, cash flow, revenue | 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?

About 240 businesses for sale and about 1,800 closed deals (sold businesses with their asking price and cash flow).

#### How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 listings (less on paid Apify plans), so the whole for-sale list costs under $1 and all closed deals about $5.40.

#### What is cash flow?

Website Closers quotes seller's discretionary earnings (SDE): profit plus the owner's salary and one-off costs. Asking price divided by cash flow is the usual valuation multiple.

#### Is it legal to scrape Website Closers?

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 Website Closers about a deal.

#### 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:

- [Online Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-online-businesses-for-sale)
- [Closed Deals for Valuation Comps](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-closed-deals-valuation-comps)
- [SBA Pre-Qualified Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-sba-prequalified-businesses)
- [SaaS Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-saas-businesses-for-sale)
- [Amazon FBA Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-amazon-fba-businesses-for-sale)
- [Businesses With $500k+ Cash Flow](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-businesses-over-500k-cash-flow)
- [New Businesses for Sale on Website Closers (Daily Feed)](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-new-businesses-daily-feed)
- [eCommerce Businesses for Sale](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-ecommerce-businesses-for-sale)
- [Businesses for Sale Under $1M](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-businesses-under-1-million)
- [Sold SaaS Businesses for Valuation Comps](https://apify.com/pshivam/website-closers-scraper/examples/wc-closed-saas-deals)

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- [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.
- [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.

### 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, closed deals (sold businesses with their asking price and cash flow), or both. Default: for sale.

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

Only keep listings whose title or summary contains this word, e.g. "SaaS", "Amazon" or "subscription". Not case-sensitive.

## `minAskingPrice` (type: `integer`):

Skip listings with a lower asking price. Listings with 'Offers invited' are kept.

## `maxAskingPrice` (type: `integer`):

Skip listings with a higher asking price. Listings with 'Offers invited' are kept.

## `minCashFlow` (type: `integer`):

Skip listings with a lower yearly cash flow (seller's discretionary earnings).

## `sbaOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only listings marked SBA pre-qualified (buyers can finance them with an SBA loan).

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

Optional: a Website Closers list page or single listing URLs, scraped as given.

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

On: revenue, year established, employees, business type, code name, reference, full description and the real sale status. Off: a fast, cheaper run with what the list 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 'website-closers-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"
  ],
  "sbaOnly": false,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

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

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

Asking price, cash flow, revenue and year established 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/website-closers-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/website-closers-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/website-closers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pshivam/website-closers-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/oWX1AovIOXJsbwSg9/builds/foaIO4kDCccfwmAH9/openapi.json