Franchise Opportunities Scraper - Investment, Fees & Leads

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns:

{
  "brandName": "Healthier 4U Vending",
  "category": "Food",
  "categoryQuery": "food",
  "sourceCategory": "Vending & ATM Franchises",
  "businessType": "Business Opportunity",
  "description": "Superior machine quality, complete hands-on training, & cutting edge locating services make Healthier 4U the choice 4U! With several different levels of investment available, you can become an independent owner/operator of these artfully nationally branded machines.",
  "minInvestment": null,
  "maxInvestment": null,
  "investmentRange": null,
  "franchiseFee": null,
  "royaltyFeePct": null,
  "liquidCapitalRequired": 53000,
  "netWorthRequired": null,
  "unitsCount": null,
  "yearFounded": null,
  "yearFranchising": null,
  "financingAvailable": false,
  "financingAssistance": "None",
  "trainingProvided": true,
  "homeBased": true,
  "availableLocations": "Opportunities available throughout the United States.",
  "franchiseId": "0000015f-4b3c-de02-a5ff-cbff5f120000",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdI13JMc2TU",
  "logoUrl": "https://franchisedirect-40-prod-ops.s3.amazonaws.com/9d/23/d6de296b062c90a9ae093af9fea9/cf19e87ba354bfda3c44b96408c16abd.png",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.franchisedirect.com/vendingfranchiseopportunities/healthier-4u-vending-08783/",
  "requestInfoUrl": "https://www.franchisedirect.com/vendingfranchiseopportunities/healthier-4u-vending-08783/",
  "aiSummary": "Healthier 4U Vending offers a unique business opportunity in the food sector, allowing you to operate high-quality vending machines that feature nationally branded healthy snacks. With an investment starting at $53,000, you will receive comprehensive training and support to ensure your success as an independent owner/operator. This home-based business model provides flexibility and the potential for a rewarding income.",
  "aiIdealCandidate": "Individuals looking for a home-based business opportunity with a focus on health and wellness.",
  "aiKeySellingPoints": ["Superior machine quality", "Complete hands-on training", "Cutting edge locating services", "Multiple investment levels available"],
  "aiTargetMarket": "Health-conscious consumers seeking convenient snack options.",
  "aiSupportHighlights": ["Training provided for independent ownership"],
  "source": "FranchiseDirect",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-14T07:44:00.399Z"
}

The most complete franchise opportunities scraper available. It returns every field the franchise directory listing exposes for each brand, including total investment range, franchise fee, liquid capital and net worth required, training, financing and the request-info lead link, plus two optional AI add-ons, and gives you category and investment-budget filters to target exactly the opportunities you need.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor reads a public franchise opportunities directory, applies the category and budget filters you pass as input, and writes one normalized record per franchise brand to the run's dataset. Each record carries the brand name, industry category, total investment range, up-front franchise fee, the liquid capital and net worth a buyer must qualify with, training and financing availability, home-based flag, available locations, and the request-info lead link where you submit interest to the franchisor. Money values are parsed to numbers and missing source values are returned as null.

An optional contact-email finder (enrichContacts) attempts to add a public business email and contact name for results without one, and two optional AI add-ons write an investor-facing summary (withAiSummary) and extract qualitative attributes such as the ideal candidate and key selling points (withAiExtract). All add-ons are billed only on usable output and require a paid Apify plan.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns up to 10 franchise opportunities in the food and fitness categories.

{
  "categories": ["food", "fitness"],
  "maxFranchises": 10
}

Every input field is optional. One run covers every category in the categories list. Add investmentRanges to keep only franchises whose total investment or required cash falls in a budget bucket.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
categories	string[]	no	["food","fitness"]	Industry categories to scrape, for example food, restaurant, coffee, fitness, automotive, children, cleaning, healthcare, home-services, pet, retail, education, vending. One run covers the whole list.
investmentRanges	string[]	no	(any)	Keep only franchises whose total investment or required cash falls in a bucket: under-50k, 50k-100k, 100k-250k, 250k-500k, 500k-1m, over-1m.
maxFranchises	integer	no	10	Maximum franchise opportunities to collect across all selected categories. Free plans are capped at 10.
enrichContacts	boolean	no	false	Contact-email finder for results without an email. Billed per attempt plus an extra charge only when an email is found; paid plans only.
enrichContactsMax	integer	no	50	Cap how many results the finder tries to enrich. Free accounts are capped at 3.
withAiSummary	boolean	no	false	AI investor-facing summary of each opportunity. Billed per enriched record; paid plans only.
withAiExtract	boolean	no	false	AI qualitative attributes (ideal candidate, key selling points, target market, support highlights). Billed per enriched record; paid plans only.

Filters combine with logical AND. Leave investmentRanges empty to include every budget.

Output reference

One dataset item per franchise. Types: string, integer, boolean, string[], or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
brandName	string	Franchise brand name.
category	string	Normalized industry category.
categoryQuery	string	The input category that produced this record.
sourceCategory	string	The directory's own category label.
businessType	string	Franchise or Business Opportunity.
description	string	Listing description.
minInvestment	integer	Low end of total investment (USD), or null.
maxInvestment	integer	High end of total investment (USD), or null.
investmentRange	string	Formatted total investment range, or null.
franchiseFee	integer	Up-front franchise fee (USD), or null.
royaltyFeePct	number	Ongoing royalty fee percentage, or null.
liquidCapitalRequired	integer	Liquid capital or cash required (USD), or null.
netWorthRequired	integer	Net worth required (USD), or null.
unitsCount	integer	Number of units, or null.
yearFounded	integer	Year the company was founded, or null.
yearFranchising	integer	Year the company began franchising, or null.
financingAvailable	boolean	Whether financing is available.
financingAssistance	string	Financing assistance type, for example 3rd Party, None.
trainingProvided	boolean	Whether training is provided.
homeBased	boolean	Whether the business can be home-based, or null.
availableLocations	string	Free-text description of where opportunities are available.
franchiseId	string	Directory franchise id.
videoUrl	string	Promotional video URL, or null.
logoUrl	string	Brand logo URL, or null.
listingUrl	string	Full public listing URL.
requestInfoUrl	string	Request-info lead entry point for the brand.
aiSummary	string	AI investor-facing summary (add-on).
aiIdealCandidate	string	AI description of the ideal candidate (add-on).
aiKeySellingPoints	string[]	AI key selling points (add-on).
aiTargetMarket	string	AI target market (add-on).
aiSupportHighlights	string[]	AI franchisor support highlights (add-on).
source	string	Data source label (FranchiseDirect).
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
enrichedEmail	string	Contact-email finder result (add-on), or null.
enrichedContactName	string	Contact person name (add-on), or null.
enrichedJobTitle	string	Contact job title (add-on), or null.
enrichedEmailStatus	string	Email verification status (add-on).
enrichedSource	string	Where the contact was found (add-on).
enrichedConfidence	string	Confidence of the contact match (add-on).

Example output record

Real record from a live run without add-ons (input {"categories":["food"],"maxFranchises":6}, description trimmed for display, real values):

{
  "brandName": "Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza",
  "category": "Food",
  "categoryQuery": "food",
  "sourceCategory": "Food Franchises",
  "businessType": "Franchise",
  "description": "As the largest take-and-bake pizza chain in the U.S. with more than 1,250 locations, Papa Murphy's is a compelling business opportunity for entrepreneurs who are passionate about their community, first class customer service [trimmed]",
  "minInvestment": 308469,
  "maxInvestment": 557879,
  "investmentRange": "$308,469 - $557,879",
  "franchiseFee": 25000,
  "royaltyFeePct": null,
  "liquidCapitalRequired": 125000,
  "netWorthRequired": null,
  "unitsCount": null,
  "yearFounded": null,
  "yearFranchising": null,
  "financingAvailable": true,
  "financingAssistance": "3rd Party",
  "trainingProvided": true,
  "homeBased": null,
  "availableLocations": "Single, multi-unit franchise opportunities available in: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NM, NV, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI.",
  "franchiseId": "00000183-a46d-d0ce-a5bf-e47fa8750000",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70yC6yZW8vY",
  "logoUrl": "https://franchisedirect-40-prod-ops.s3.amazonaws.com/7c/24/1f2770cf751559cad877a2eaba6b/logo.png",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.franchisedirect.com/food-franchises/papa-murphys/",
  "requestInfoUrl": "https://www.franchisedirect.com/food-franchises/papa-murphys/",
  "source": "FranchiseDirect",
  "observedAt": "2026-07-25T13:09:52.588Z"
}

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~franchise-opportunities-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"categories":["food","fitness"],"investmentRanges":["100k-250k"],"maxFranchises":25}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~franchise-opportunities-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"categories":["automotive"],"maxFranchises":100}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/franchise-opportunities-scraper \
  --input '{"categories":["coffee"],"investmentRanges":["under-50k"]}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per franchise record returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• Contact finder add-on. enrichContacts is billed per attempt, plus an extra charge only when an email is found, and requires a paid Apify plan (free accounts enrich at most 3 results).
• AI add-ons. withAiSummary and withAiExtract are billed separately per successfully processed record and require a paid Apify plan. They are skipped for free users.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors or matches nothing, the actor writes a single item with an error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 franchises per run. Upgrade for higher maxFranchises.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? The category or budget combination matched nothing. Loosen filters (for example drop the investmentRanges bucket or add more categories). Zero-result runs are not charged.

What do the investment fields mean? minInvestment and maxInvestment are the total estimated cost to open, franchiseFee is the up-front fee, and liquidCapitalRequired and netWorthRequired are the qualification thresholds a buyer must meet.

How do I contact a franchisor? Each record includes requestInfoUrl, the request-info entry point where you submit interest to the brand, plus the full listingUrl. The enrichContacts add-on can also find a public business email.

Why are some money fields null? Not every listing publishes a full investment range or fee. Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

What do the AI fields do? withAiSummary writes an investor-facing summary, and withAiExtract pulls qualitative attributes (ideal candidate, selling points, target market, support). Both are optional, billed on usable output, and require a paid plan.

Is this an official franchise directory tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with any franchise directory or brand. It reads only publicly available listing data. Use the results in accordance with the source's terms.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with any franchise directory or brand. Accesses only publicly available listing data. Use the results in accordance with the source's terms.