BusinessesForSale.com Scraper — businesses and franchises for sale in the US, UK, Australia and worldwide

This BusinessesForSale.com scraper exports the listings of BusinessesForSale.com, one of the largest marketplaces of businesses for sale, as clean rows: title, asking price, revenue (turnover), cash flow or net profit, location, feature tags, badges, summary, photo and link, with every figure also read as a number (an exact amount, or the two ends of a band such as $100K - $250K) and its currency. Search by sector, place and feature on the US, UK or Australian site, search the worldwide site (every country's listings, Canada, the UAE, South Africa and Europe included), or paste any BusinessesForSale.com results link.

• Businesses for sale, franchise ads and M&A Vault deals: each row says which it is. Franchise and business-opportunity ads give their franchise fee, total investment (as a range), liquid capital, breakeven, lifestyle and management; M&A Vault listings their revenue and profitability. Untick one box to get businesses only.
• Every listing once per run: a business found by two searches is delivered and charged once.
• Nearby listings flagged: when the site adds a listing from outside the place you searched, nearby says how far (12.4 miles from Fort Worth, Texas).

You pay per listing delivered. Searches without results and links that give nothing are free rows that say why. No login, no start fee.

What the BusinessesForSale.com scraper is for

• Business buyers, search funds and investors: run a sector-and-place search every day (restaurants in Texas, owner-financed businesses in Florida, cafes in Queensland) and get every new listing with its price and cash flow.
• Business brokers and M&A advisors: comparable asking prices, revenue and profit by sector and region; who else is selling in your territory, price reductions, distressed and quick-sale listings.
• Franchise consultants and franchisors: franchise fees, total investment and liquid capital of the franchise ads in each region.
• Market research: how many businesses are for sale per sector and place (the site's own count is in every free search row), and what they ask.

How the BusinessesForSale.com scraper works

1. Each sector × place × feature you choose becomes one BusinessesForSale.com search, built exactly as the site's own links write it (/us/search/owner-financed-restaurants-for-sale-in-texas). A pasted results link is walked as it is, from the page it points to.
2. The Actor reads the results pages the site serves to any visitor, 25 listings a page, following the site's own "Next" link until your maximum.
3. Each listing card becomes one row; the free search row says how many the site lists, how many were delivered, duplicates and skipped franchise ads.

BusinessesForSale.com scraper input example

{
  "site": "us",
  "sectors": ["restaurants", "cafes"],
  "locations": ["Texas", "Florida"],
  "features": ["owner-financed"],
  "includeFranchiseAds": false,
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 200
}

UK pubs in London: { "site": "uk", "sectors": ["pubs-bars-and-nightclubs"], "locations": ["London"] }. Worldwide online businesses: { "site": "worldwide", "sectors": ["online-businesses"], "maxResultsPerSearch": 500 }. From links: { "startUrls": ["https://us.businessesforsale.com/us/search/italian-restaurants-for-sale-in-chicago"] }.

BusinessesForSale.com data output example

One listing row (shortened):

{
  "rowType": "listing",
  "id": "a3986335",
  "listingType": "business",
  "url": "https://us.businessesforsale.com/us/cajun-asian-franchise-for-sale-three-locations.aspx",
  "title": "Cajun/Asian Franchise For Sale - Three Locations",
  "summary": "Imagine owning a piece of the booming Cajun-Asian fusion market with this established LA Crawfish franchise opportunity featuring three profitable locations in Texas…",
  "location": "Edinburg, Texas, US",
  "nearby": null,
  "site": "us",
  "currency": "USD",
  "askingPrice": 1900000,
  "askingPriceMin": 1900000,
  "askingPriceMax": 1900000,
  "askingPriceText": "$1,900,000",
  "revenue": 2634758,
  "revenueText": "$2,634,758",
  "profit": 494654,
  "profitText": "$494,654",
  "profitLabel": "Cash Flow",
  "profitMarginPercent": null,
  "franchise": null,
  "badges": [],
  "tags": [],
  "financials": [
    { "label": "Asking Price", "value": "$1,900,000" },
    { "label": "Revenue", "value": "$2,634,758" },
    { "label": "Cash Flow", "value": "$494,654" }
  ],
  "imageUrl": "https://us.businessesforsale.com/uploadsstatic/a3986335mediumthumbnail.jpg?XA8JGg6srVDPDdWV30F9rA==",
  "searchUrl": "https://us.businessesforsale.com/us/search/restaurants-for-sale-in-texas",
  "position": 7,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

A franchise ad carries "listingType": "franchise" and, instead of a price:

"franchise": {
  "feeText": "$49,500",
  "totalInvestmentText": "$222,000 to $591,000",
  "totalInvestmentMin": 222000,
  "totalInvestmentMax": 591000,
  "investmentCurrency": "USD",
  "liquidCapitalText": "$175,000",
  "minimumInvestmentText": null,
  "breakeven": "3 Months",
  "lifestyle": ["Full time", "Part time"],
  "management": ["Owner Managed"]
}

BusinessesForSale.com listing fields (rowType: listing, charged)

field	what it is
id, url	the site's listing id (a… business, fst… franchise ad, mv… M&A Vault) and its page
listingType	business, franchise, opportunity (business-opportunity ad) or m_and_a_vault
title, summary	the card's title and teaser
location, nearby	where the business is; nearby when the site added it from outside the place searched
site	the site searched: us, uk, australia or worldwide
currency	ISO code of the figures (USD, GBP, AUD, EUR, AED…); null when no figure is given
askingPrice, askingPriceMin, askingPriceMax, askingPriceText	the exact price, or the band's ends (Under $100K has only a maximum), and the text as printed (On request)
revenue, revenueMin, revenueMax, revenueText	revenue (the UK and Australian sites call it Turnover)
profit, profitMin, profitMax, profitText, profitLabel	Cash Flow on the US and worldwide sites, Net Profit on the UK and Australian ones
profitMarginPercent	an M&A Vault listing's profitability
franchise	a franchise or opportunity ad's fee, total investment, liquid capital, minimum investment, breakeven, lifestyle, management; else null
badges	New, Updated, Price Reduced, Visa Ready, High Value
tags	Relocatable, Work From Home, Owner Financed, Lease, Leasehold, Real Property, Quick Sale…
financials	every label and value the card prints
imageUrl	the listing's photo (null when the site shows only its stock sector picture)
searchUrl, position	the search the listing was found in and its place there
scrapedAt	when the run read it (UTC, ISO 8601)

Free rows

• search: one per search or results link — ok, no_results, not_a_list (the site has no page for that sector or place), blocked, not_searched (spending limit) or unreadable — with the site's heading (Restaurants For Sale in Texas), its own count (totalListed; the franchise ads it mixes in are not counted), how many listings were delivered, duplicates and skipped franchise ads.
• link: a link that is not read, and why (a single listing page, another country site, a filtered search).

The run's SUMMARY record counts everything.

BusinessesForSale.com scraper pricing

event	price	when
listing	US$0.0008	each listing delivered: a business, a franchise or opportunity ad, or an M&A Vault listing

1,000 listings cost US$0.80. Search rows and link rows are free. The run stops at your spending limit before it delivers a listing it cannot charge.

Sites, sectors, places and features

• Sites: us (us.businessesforsale.com), uk, australia and worldwide (www.businessesforsale.com, every country's listings, by sector and feature only). The other country sites (Canada, India, the UAE, France…) answer automated readers with a Cloudflare block, so the Actor does not read them; their listings appear on the worldwide site.
• Sectors: the site's own 13 sectors and their sub-sectors (Food › Restaurants, Online › Apps, Real Estate › Self Storage…). The UK and Australian sites call Real Estate Commercial Property.
• Places: states, counties, regions and cities as the site names them (Texas, Fort Worth, London, Queensland). A place the site has no page for gives a free not_a_list row.
• Features: Owner Financed, Relocatable, Work From Home, Price Reduced, Distressed, Real Property, Freehold, Leasehold, Liquidation… Each site offers its own list; the input form says which.

Limits

• Listing pages are not read. BusinessesForSale.com's firewall refuses automated readers on single listings (from data centers and residential addresses alike), so the full description, the broker and the seller's contact are not in the output: every row links to its page. The data is what the results cards show.
• The site's price, revenue and profit filters, its sort orders and its keyword search are query-string searches that its robots.txt closes to automated readers; filter the output instead (every figure is a number).
• Results come in the site's default order, with franchise ads mixed in, 25 a page.
• If the site stops answering (a Cloudflare block or rate limit), the run stops asking, ends successfully and the remaining searches are free blocked rows: run it again later.

Is it legal to scrape BusinessesForSale.com?

This Actor reads only public results pages that BusinessesForSale.com shows to any visitor without an account, at a visitor's pace, and only paths its robots.txt leaves open. It never logs in, never reads member areas and never solves or bypasses a bot check. Listings may contain names of brokers or sellers' companies; if you store or contact them, the data-protection rules of your country (GDPR, CCPA…) apply to you. Check BusinessesForSale.com's terms for your use.

This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by BusinessesForSale.com or its owners. BusinessesForSale.com is a trademark of its respective owner.