nexxt-change German Businesses for Sale Scraper

Extract public company-sale listings from the German business succession marketplace nexxt-change.org with your own search criteria. The Actor mirrors the official sales-offer search form, visits matching detail pages sequentially, and saves normalized, export-ready records to the default Apify dataset. Run it from Apify Console without code, schedule recurring searches, call it through the API, or connect the dataset to other Apify integrations.

This is an unofficial Actor. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by nexxt-change, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, KfW, or Apify.

What this Actor extracts

Each dataset item can include the listing ID and Chiffre, title, publication date, advertiser type, short and long descriptions, location hierarchy, industries, employee range, last annual revenue range, asking-price range, international-activity flag, public image URLs, a public exposé URL, and the responsible regional-partner organization. Money and employee bands are also returned as deterministic numeric minimum and maximum values where the source publishes them.

The Actor intentionally does not use AI, download exposé PDFs, enrich people or companies, send notifications, or write to an external database. It only processes the public HTML needed for the requested run. Contact-person names shown on source pages are not included in the dataset.

Search inputs

The input UI supports the current nexxt-change search criteria:

• Search words or a Chiffre number and excluded words
• Top-level industry sector
• Federal state, or a five-digit postcode with radius
• Annual revenue, employee-count, and asking-price bands
• International activity
• Only listings with an exposé or images
• Advertiser types and regional-partner association
• Advanced exact industry and district hierarchy codes
• Maximum listings, maximum result pages, request delay, and timeout

The top-level sector and state fields are user-friendly selectors. For a source taxonomy below that level, copy the bracketed value from the live form's ad_nace or ad_nuts option into industryCode or locationCode. An advanced code overrides its top-level selector. The source treats state/district and postcode searches as alternatives, so the Actor rejects an input that combines them.

How to use

1. Open the Actor's Input tab in Apify Console.
2. Enter only the criteria you need. Leave search fields empty to browse the newest public listings, or start with the prefilled Bäckerei example.
3. Choose maxItems and maxPages; keep the one-second request delay unless the source explicitly permits another rate.
4. Select Start, then open the default dataset to inspect or export the results. For automation, save the input as an Apify Task and run it through schedules, API calls, or integrations.

Example input

{
  "searchTerm": "Bäckerei",
  "industrySector": "[13]",
  "federalState": "[11]",
  "revenueRanges": ["2", "1"],
  "onlyWithImages": false,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPages": 100,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

All search criteria are optional. An empty search extracts the newest public listings until maxItems is reached. The Console prefill uses “Bäckerei” and 10 items so a first run produces a small, useful sample. Public runs are capped at 1,000 successfully extracted listings and 100 result pages. Split broader research into multiple runs with narrower industry, location, or financial filters.

Output

Results are written one company per item to the default dataset and are available as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS through Apify. A RUN_SUMMARY record in the default key-value store contains result counts, page counts, detailFailures, searchPageFailures, an isPartial flag, up to 20 typed errors, and timestamps.

{
  "source": "nexxt-change.org",
  "adId": "810016",
  "url": "https://www.nexxt-change.org/DE/Verkaufsangebot/Detailseite/detailseite_jsp?adId=810016",
  "title": "Existenz zu verkaufen",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-24",
  "federalState": "Rheinland-Pfalz",
  "industries": ["Handwerk > Lebensmittelgewerbe > Bäcker"],
  "employeesMin": 0,
  "employeesMax": 5,
  "annualRevenueMinEur": 250000,
  "annualRevenueMaxEur": 500000,
  "internationalActivity": false,
  "imageUrls": [],
  "exposeUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T19:00:00+00:00"
}

Reliable pagination

nexxt-change result links contain a dynamic gtp token and use one-based page values. The earlier reusable crawler calculated the second request with a zero-based loop index, which requested list page 1 again. The source also emits the &gtp= separator without HTML-escaping its ampersand, so standard parsers can expose it incorrectly as >p=. This Actor restores that separator and follows the exact server-provided token and page value; it does not reconstruct them. It also deduplicates listing IDs, detects repeated page URLs, and stops at the end of results or the configured limits.

Every transient network failure, incomplete response body, HTTP 408/429 response, and HTTP 500–504 response is attempted up to five times with logged exponential backoff. If the first search page remains unavailable, the run fails because no valid result set exists. If a later search page remains unavailable after at least one page was processed, the run succeeds with the records already written and marks RUN_SUMMARY.isPartial as true. A failed detail page is skipped and reported the same way, so users can distinguish complete output from an intentionally preserved partial result.

Pricing

This Actor is currently listed with pay per event pricing. As of 17 October 2026, the public pricing page lists $1.00 per Actor start and $0.05 per result ($50 per 1,000), with platform usage included. A run that starts and produces 10 results therefore has a listed event price of $1.50 before any applicable free usage or credits. Check that page before starting a run because prices and allowances can change. The Actor uses 256 MB by default and does not use a browser, residential proxy, AI service, or other paid third-party API.

Responsible operation

Requests are sequential. The default delay is one second after every request attempt, transient failures are retried with backoff, and the Actor stops as soon as maxItems is reached. Do not use it to overload the source, bypass access controls, build spam lists, contact advertisers in bulk, or use data outside purposes permitted by the source website and applicable law. Keep each record's source and canonical url when sharing results: the source site's current imprint requires source attribution for dissemination or reproduction of information created by the exchange. It also reserves rights in site text and images, so obtain any permission or legal review your intended reuse requires.

By running the Actor, you accept the Terms of Service. Data handling is described in the Privacy Notice.

Local development

Python 3.12 and the Apify CLI are recommended.

python3.12 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install --require-hashes --requirement requirements.lock
python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
apify run --purge

The production image uses the non-browser apify/actor-python:3.12 base image and runs as its non-root myuser. Dependencies are installed from the hash-locked requirements.lock before source code is copied so Docker can reuse the dependency layer. When requirements.txt changes, regenerate the lock with uv pip compile requirements.txt --python-version 3.12 --generate-hashes --no-emit-index-url --output-file requirements.lock.

Deployment and Store release

Pushes to main run validation and deploy the accepted commit to the existing Actor's beta build tag through GitHub Actions. Run the cloud acceptance checks against that exact beta build. To release the same main commit, manually dispatch Validate Actor with release_latest: true; the workflow validates again, refreshes beta, waits at the apify-production environment gate, and then builds the latest tag. Keep Actor permissions set to Limited, select a successful and complete (isPartial: false) production run as sample output, and complete the Store publication form. Copy-ready display, SEO, category, pricing, and legal values are in the Store listing guide; the release checklist covers the owner-only gates.

Support and changes

Source markup and third-party terms can change without notice. If extraction stops, include the Actor run ID and failing public URL in an Apify issue or GitHub issue. Do not post personal data, tokens, or confidential listings in a public issue. Version history is recorded in the changelog.

FAQ

Can one run export every listing? A public run is limited to 1,000 listings and 100 result pages. Split broader exports by industry, state, postcode, price, or another source filter.

Does the Actor return seller contact details? No. It omits named contact people. Each record keeps the public source URL so you can use nexxt-change's official contact workflow.

Why can results differ between runs? Listings, source taxonomy, availability, and page markup can change at any time. The Actor records scrapedAt and always links back to the live listing for verification.