# Flippa SaaS & Online Businesses Scraper (Financials & Multip (`spotless_studios/flippa-businesses-scraper`) Actor

Extract online businesses, SaaS products, eCommerce stores, content websites, mobile apps, and newsletters for sale on Flippa. Captures monthly revenue, net profit, profit margin %, profit/revenue multiples, asking price, price drops, monetization model, site age, verified badges, and seller de

- **URL**: https://apify.com/spotless_studios/flippa-businesses-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Spotless Studios](https://apify.com/spotless_studios) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 flippa listing extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Flippa SaaS & Online Businesses Scraper (Financials & Multiples)

Extract online businesses, SaaS products, eCommerce stores, content websites, mobile apps, and newsletters for sale on **[Flippa](https://flippa.com)** — complete with **monthly revenue**, **exact monthly net profit**, **profit margin %**, **annual profit & revenue multiples**, **price drops**, **monetization model**, **site age**, **verified badges**, and **seller/broker details**.

Built for **micro-PE funds**, **SaaS acquirers**, **M\&A brokers**, **search fund operators**, and **deal-flow automation pipelines**.

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### What Does This Scraper Extract?

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `listingId` | `string` | Unique numeric Flippa listing ID (e.g. `"11816135"`) |
| `title` | `string` | Full listing headline / title |
| `categoryHeadline` | `string` | Category & industry header (e.g. `"SaaS \| Internet"`) |
| `propertyType` | `string` | Asset class (`SaaS`, `Ecommerce`, `Content`, `App`, `Service`, etc.) |
| `industry` | `string` | Industry classification (`Internet`, `Business`, `Design and Style`, etc.) |
| `monetization` | `string` | Primary monetization model (`Subscriptions`, `Ads`, `Dropshipping`, `Affiliate`, etc.) |
| `country` | `string` | Seller / business operating country (`United States`, `Canada`, `United Kingdom`, etc.) |
| `siteAge` | `string` | Human-readable business age (e.g. `"12 years"`) |
| `siteAgeYears` | `number` | Numeric age in years (`12`) |
| `askingPrice` | `number` | Current asking price in USD (`2520000`) |
| `originalPrice` | `number \| null` | Previous asking price if the seller reduced the price (`3500000`) |
| `priceDropPercent` | `number \| null` | Discount percentage off the original asking price (`28`) |
| `currency` | `string` | Listing currency code (`USD`, `AUD`, `EUR`, `GBP`) |
| `monthlyRevenue` | `number \| null` | Average monthly gross revenue in USD (`160000`) |
| `monthlyProfit` | `number \| null` | Exact average monthly net profit in USD (`51720`) |
| `annualizedRevenue` | `number \| null` | Annualized revenue (`monthlyRevenue * 12`) |
| `annualizedProfit` | `number \| null` | Annualized net profit (`monthlyProfit * 12`) |
| `profitMarginPercent` | `number \| null` | Net profit margin percentage (`32`) |
| `profitMultiple` | `number \| null` | Annual net profit valuation multiple (`4.1`) |
| `revenueMultiple` | `number \| null` | Annual gross revenue valuation multiple (`1.3`) |
| `isVerified` | `boolean` | Whether financials/traffic carry the `Verified Listing` badge |
| `isManagedByFlippa` | `boolean` | Whether the deal is `Managed by Flippa` |
| `isBrokered` | `boolean` | Whether the deal is represented by a broker (`Brokered by Flippa` / `Brokered`) |
| `isSponsored` | `boolean` | Whether the placement is sponsored |
| `badges` | `string[]` | All trust and deal badges (`["Verified Listing", "Managed by Flippa", "Reduced 28%"]`) |
| `sellerName` | `string \| null` | Seller or M\&A broker display name |
| `keyMetrics` | ` object` | Raw key-value table of all card & detail metrics |
| `summary` | `string` | Full listing executive summary / description |
| `imageUrl` | `string \| null` | Featured thumbnail / cover image URL |
| `listingUrl` | `string` | Canonical URL (`https://flippa.com/11816135`) |
| `scrapedAt` | `string` | ISO-8601 extraction timestamp |

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### High-Value Use Cases

1. **Micro-PE & Search Fund Deal Sourcing**: Automatically monitor Flippa daily for profitable SaaS or content businesses generating `>= $5,000/mo` net profit at `< 3.5x` annual profit multiple.
2. **Distressed & Price-Drop Arbitrage**: Set `onlyReducedPrice: true` to surface motivated sellers who have recently slashed their asking price by 15%–50%.
3. **Valuation Comps & M\&A Benchmarking**: Aggregate thousands of SaaS, eCommerce, and newsletter listings to analyze real-world revenue and profit multiples by industry, age, and profit margin.
4. **Broker & Deal-Flow Alerts**: Pipe new `Verified Listing` and `Managed by Flippa` deals straight into Slack, Notion, Airtable, or HubSpot CRM.

***

### Input Example

```json
{
  "propertyType": "saas",
  "sortBy": "most_profitable",
  "minAskingPrice": 10000,
  "maxAskingPrice": 500000,
  "minMonthlyProfit": 2000,
  "maxProfitMultiple": 4.5,
  "onlyVerified": true,
  "onlyReducedPrice": false,
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

***

### Output Example

```json
{
  "listingId": "11816135",
  "title": "SaaS | Internet",
  "categoryHeadline": "SaaS | Internet",
  "propertyType": "SaaS",
  "industry": "Internet",
  "monetization": "Other",
  "country": "Canada",
  "siteAge": "12 years",
  "siteAgeYears": 12,
  "askingPrice": 2520000,
  "originalPrice": 3500000,
  "priceDropPercent": 28,
  "currency": "USD",
  "monthlyRevenue": 160000,
  "monthlyProfit": 51720,
  "annualizedRevenue": 1920000,
  "annualizedProfit": 620640,
  "profitMarginPercent": 32,
  "profitMultiple": 4.1,
  "revenueMultiple": 1.3,
  "isVerified": true,
  "isManagedByFlippa": true,
  "isBrokered": true,
  "isSponsored": true,
  "badges": [
    "Verified Listing",
    "Managed by Flippa",
    "Brokered by Flippa",
    "Brokered",
    "Sponsored",
    "Reduced 28%"
  ],
  "sellerName": "Flippa Brokerage",
  "keyMetrics": {
    "Type": "SaaS",
    "Industry": "Internet",
    "Monetization": "Other",
    "Site Age": "12 years",
    "Monthly Profit": "USD $51,720 /mo",
    "Profit Margin": "32%",
    "Profit Multiple": "4.1x",
    "Revenue Multiple": "1.3x"
  },
  "summary": "High-Margin, Growing, Well-Established, Zero-Paid-Marketing B2B and B2C Geolocation SaaS Platform Processing 2 Billion Monthly Requests with 99.99% Uptime.",
  "imageUrl": "https://static.flippa.com/assets/search/placeholders/software-a2bc95d3238ff5a43f26f82f4c7627e971d29fc739ebdd9f0a7aa72bfeb5c32e.svg",
  "listingUrl": "https://flippa.com/11816135",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T15:00:00.000Z"
}
```

***

### More from Spotless Studios

**[All actors on Apify](https://apify.com/spotless_studios)** · Support: spotless.studios.info@gmail.com

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# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Keyword search across Flippa listings (e.g. 'AI', 'Shopify', 'Newsletter', 'WordPress plugin'). Leave empty to browse by property type.

## `propertyType` (type: `string`):

Filter listings by asset class on Flippa.

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

How to sort Flippa search results.

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

Post-filter: only keep listings with an asking price >= this USD amount (0 = no minimum).

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

Post-filter: only keep listings with an asking price <= this USD amount (0 = no maximum).

## `minMonthlyProfit` (type: `integer`):

Post-filter: only keep listings generating at least this USD monthly net profit (0 = no minimum).

## `maxProfitMultiple` (type: `number`):

Post-filter: only keep listings with an annual profit multiple <= this value (0 = no maximum).

## `onlyVerified` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, only return listings that have a Verified Listing, Managed by Flippa, or Brokered badge.

## `onlyReducedPrice` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, only return distressed/discounted listings where the seller has reduced the asking price.

## `listingUrls` (type: `array`):

Specific Flippa listing URLs (https://flippa.com/11816135) or numeric listing IDs to scrape directly.

## `enrichDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetches each listing's individual detail page to extract exact unrounded monthly profit, profit margin %, page views/subscribers, seller name, and full description.

## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keep listings whose name, tagline, about text, services, industries, or skills contain these words. /regex/ supported.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop listings containing any of these words or /regex/.

## `keywordMatch` (type: `string`):

Require any or all include keywords.

## `onlyNewItems` (type: `boolean`):

Remember listings from previous runs and save only ones not seen before.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Separate memory per saved search.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after saving this many listings.

## `outputPreset` (type: `string`):

Quickly choose how much data to save per record: full record, lean summary, or contact & social links only.

## `outputFields` (type: `array`):

Save only these fields, in this order (e.g. name, website, country, tier, minimumBudgetUsd, hourlyDesignRateUsd, profileUrl). Supports nested dot-paths (e.g. makers.username). Empty keeps all fields from the selected preset.

## `excludeFields` (type: `array`):

Remove specific fields (or nested dot-paths) from each saved record to keep datasets compact.

## `includeEmptyFields` (type: `boolean`):

When turned off, strips null, empty strings, empty arrays, and empty objects from every saved record.

## `requiredFields` (type: `array`):

Only save (and only pay for) records where every listed field or dot-path has a non-empty value (e.g. website, inquiryEmail).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Pages fetched in parallel.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries per request.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Timeout per request.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional; not usually needed.

## `proxyEscalation` (type: `boolean`):

If the site blocks the run, automatically step up from a direct connection to Apify datacenter proxy, then residential proxy, only for the blocked site. Turn off to use exactly the proxy above.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "propertyType": "saas",
  "sortBy": "most_profitable",
  "minAskingPrice": 0,
  "maxAskingPrice": 0,
  "minMonthlyProfit": 0,
  "maxProfitMultiple": 0,
  "onlyVerified": false,
  "onlyReducedPrice": false,
  "listingUrls": [],
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "keywordMatch": "any",
  "onlyNewItems": false,
  "stateKey": "default",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "outputPreset": "full",
  "includeEmptyFields": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 6,
  "maxRequestRetries": 4,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 45,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "proxyEscalation": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Extracted Flippa listings with financial metrics and multiples.

# 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 = {
    "searchQuery": "",
    "maxResults": 25,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("spotless_studios/flippa-businesses-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 = {
    "searchQuery": "",
    "maxResults": 25,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("spotless_studios/flippa-businesses-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 '{
  "searchQuery": "",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call spotless_studios/flippa-businesses-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,spotless_studios/flippa-businesses-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/fNml9NyLqhaCdtGKM/builds/3qlKSwuBxNCizxDYs/openapi.json