BizBuySell Scraper

BizBuySell Scraper at a glance

BizBuySell Scraper is a ready-to-run Apify actor from abotapi for collecting lead generation data. Its documented output includes id, url, title, category and type, which you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel or read through the Apify API. It costs $2.20 per 1,000 results on the Apify Free plan and from $1.50 on paid plans, with smaller per-run or optional feature charges listed on Apify.

Runs on: Apify cloud: console, API, schedules and integrations
Data type: Lead Generation, Real Estate, Automation
Pricing: $2.20 per 1,000 results (Free plan), from $1.50 on paid plans
Output: Documented below · JSON, CSV, Excel
Inputs: 28 options

From $1.5/1K. Extract business-for-sale and franchise listings from bizbuysell.com with financials, full descriptions, photos, and broker contact details. Search by filters or paste BizBuySell URLs directly. Returns 30+ structured fields per listing, ready for CRMs, deal pipelines, or spreadsheets.

What BizBuySell Scraper can do

30+ fields per listing, including the broker contact block (name, phone, brokerage, license where shown), which most quick scrapes skip.
Full financials: asking price, cash flow (SDE), gross revenue, EBITDA, inventory, FF&E, real estate (and whether it is included in the asking price), established year, and employees, plus everything else the listing discloses, kept verbatim in a detailsRaw map.
Deal-context narrative fields where the listing includes them: facilities, growth and expansion notes, competition, reason for selling, and support and training terms.
Two ways in: a filter search (category, location, listing type, price, cash flow, gross revenue, keyword, sort) or paste any BizBuySell search, category, or listing URL directly.
Auto-pagination and dedup, plus a fast lean mode that skips detail pages when you only need the search-card fields.
Built for schedules. Incremental mode returns only new and changed listings on recurring runs, and Resume continues one interrupted run without paying twice for listings you already have.

Choose what to collect

These inputs let you configure BizBuySell Scraper - Businesses for Sale, Franchises & Brokers. Open the actor on Apify to enter your values and review the current options.

Supported input fields
Input	What it controls
`mode`string · required	Pick how the scraper finds listings: 'search' uses the filter fields below; 'url' fetches the BizBuySell search/category URLs you paste. Choices: search, url
`keyword`string	Free-text keyword, e.g. 'coffee shop', 'HVAC', 'laundromat'. Leave blank to browse all listings.
`category`string	BizBuySell industry category slug, e.g. 'restaurants-and-food', 'retail', 'service-businesses', 'manufacturing', 'automotive-and-boat'. Leave blank for all categories.
`location`string	US state or region, e.g. 'Florida', 'California', 'Texas'. Used as the BizBuySell location path. For one specific city/metro, paste that city's BizBuySell URL in URL mode instead. Leave blank for nationwide.
`listingType`string	Filters results by listing type. Applies in Search mode only: matched against each listing's own listingType value, so 'Established businesses' or 'Asset sales' returns only that type. Not applied in URL mode, a pasted URL is passed through unfiltered. It also forms part of the automatically derived incremental state key, so changing it starts a separate incremental baseline. Choices: all, established, asset-sale
`minAskingPrice`integer	Only return listings with an asking price at or above this amount.
`maxAskingPrice`integer	Only return listings with an asking price at or below this amount.

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More input fields
Input	What it controls
`minCashFlow`integer	Only return listings whose cash flow (seller's discretionary earnings) is at or above this amount. Cash flow is on the listing detail page, so enable 'Fetch full listing details' for this filter to apply.
`minGrossRevenue`integer	Only return listings whose annual gross revenue is at or above this amount. Gross revenue is on the listing detail page, so enable 'Fetch full listing details' for this filter to apply.
`maxCashFlow`integer	Only return listings whose annual cash flow is at or below this amount. Applied after parsing (BizBuySell has no native upper bound); a listing with unknown cash flow is kept. Enable 'Fetch full listing details' to apply it to listings whose card omits cash flow.
`maxGrossRevenue`integer	Only return listings whose annual gross revenue is at or below this amount. Applied after parsing; a listing with unknown revenue is kept. Gross revenue is on the listing detail page, so enable 'Fetch full listing details' for this filter to apply.
`sortBy`string	Order the search results. Choices: default, price-asc, price-desc, newest, cashflow-desc
`urls`array	Paste one or more BizBuySell search, category, keyword (?q=), asset-sale (?showAssetSale=true), franchise or listing URLs. Filter-mode fields are ignored. Pagination starts at the page in the URL and walks forward. Broker-directory URLs are skipped with a warning. A listing-detail URL is accepted too (it is in the example input) but is not in the default list because detail pages are often refused.
`startUrls`array	Alias for 'BizBuySell URLs' for users migrating from other BizBuySell scrapers. Accepts plain URLs or {"url": ...} objects. When it holds at least one URL it wins over 'BizBuySell URLs' and the run uses URL mode.
`fetchDetails`boolean	Open each listing page to pull financials (cash flow, gross revenue, EBITDA, inventory, FF&E, real estate), full description, photos, and the listing broker's name / phone / brokerage. Adds one request per listing. Turn off for a fast, lean run with just the search-card fields.
`maxPages`integer	How many result pages to walk per search / per URL. Leave empty or set 0 for no page limit: the walk then runs until BizBuySell stops returning new results, or until Max listings is reached (whichever comes first). Use Max listings to keep a run bounded. A hard cap of 1000 pages per search / URL always applies.
`max_pages`integer	Alias for 'Max search pages'. When set it wins over 'Max search pages'.
`maxListings`integer	Stop after this many listings total. 0 = no limit. Because Max search pages no longer caps the walk, this is the main bound on how big (and how expensive) a run gets, so it defaults to 20. Raise it, or set 0, for a full catalogue pull. Capped at 100000 per run.
`results_wanted`integer	Alias for 'Max listings'. When set it wins over 'Max listings'.
`resumeFromRunId`string	Paste a previous run ID or dataset ID to continue a large search pull without returning or charging for listings already collected there. Use this after an interrupted run. For recurring monitoring of the same search, use Incremental mode below instead.
`incrementalMode`boolean	Turn this on for daily or recurring monitoring. The first run returns all matching listings as NEW. Later runs normally return only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED listings. A listing counts as UPDATED when any returned field changes (asking price, cash flow, revenue, EBITDA, title, descriptions, broker, location, the set of photos, detail facts, and so on). These never trigger UPDATED: the price-reduced flag, the recently-added and recently-updated badges, the main image URL, the fetch timestamp (fetchedAt), the order of photos, and the fields you list in Ignore fields when detecting changes below; they are still returned in the output. Turn on Emit unchanged or Emit expired only when you also want those listings returned (and billed). State is kept separately for each mode/keyword/category/location/filter/fetch-details setup; use State key when you want to name or deliberately share a monitoring campaign. To continue one specific interrupted run instead, use Resume from a previous run above.
`stateKey`string	Optional. Name this monitoring campaign to keep its state stable, or to deliberately share state across differently-configured runs. Leave empty to let the actor derive a key automatically from the mode/keyword/category/location/filter/fetch-details settings, different searches then never mix state with each other.
`emitUnchanged`boolean	Off by default. Turn on to also return listings that have not changed since the last run, marked UNCHANGED. This returns, and bills, extra rows you already have, so leave it off unless you specifically want the full snapshot every run.
`emitExpired`boolean	Off by default. Turn on to also return listings that were present in a previous run but are no longer found, marked EXPIRED. Only produced once a run has fully scanned the tracked search, not when Max listings capped it or when Resume was used. This returns, and bills, extra synthetic rows, so leave it off unless you need expiry tracking.
`ignoreFieldsForChanges`array	Output field names that should NOT make a listing count as UPDATED, for example datePosted or shortDescription. Use a dotted path to ignore one entry inside detailsRaw, e.g. detailsRaw.Employees. The price-reduced flag, the recently-added and recently-updated badges, the main image URL, fetchedAt and photo order are always ignored. Fields added in a newer version are compared only after a baseline has stored them. Ignored fields are still returned in the output.
`mcpConnectors`array	Optionally send the scraped results into the apps you already use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize a connector once under Apify → Settings → Integrations, then select it here. The connector receives a condensed, human-readable summary per item (title + key fields), not the full JSON - the complete record stays in the dataset. Leave empty to skip. Supported: Notion (https://mcp.notion.com/mcp), Linear (https://mcp.linear.app/sse), Airtable (https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp), Apify (https://mcp.apify.com).
`notionParentPageUrl`string	URL (or id) of the Notion page under which item pages are created. Required to enable the Notion export; ignored by other connectors.
`maxNotifyListings`integer	Cap on items written to each connector per run. Does not affect the dataset.

Fields in the output

The documented dataset includes the fields below. Availability can depend on the source page and selected mode.

idID (text)

urlURL (link)

titleTitle (text)

categoryCategory (text)

listingTypeType (text)

cityCity (text)

stateState (text)

shortDescriptionShort description (text)

fullDescriptionFull description (text)

askingPriceAsking price (number)

priceReducedPrice reduced (boolean)

cashFlowCash flow (number)

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grossRevenueGross revenue (number)

ebitdaEBITDA (number)

inventoryInventory (number)

ffeFF&E (number)

realEstateReal estate (number)

realEstateIncludedReal estate included in price (boolean)

establishedYearEstablished (number)

employeesEmployees (text)

reasonForSellingReason for selling (text)

supportTrainingSupport & training (text)

financingAvailableFinancing available (text)

relocatableRelocatable (text)

homeBasedHome based (text)

franchiseFranchise (text)

leaseInfoLease / rent (text)

facilitiesFacilities (text)

growthExpansionGrowth & expansion (text)

competitionCompetition (text)

brokerNameBroker (text)

brokerPhoneBroker phone (text)

brokerageNameBrokerage (text)

brokerProfileUrlBroker profile (link)

brokerLicenseBroker license (text)

datePostedPosted (text)

isVerifiedVerified listing (boolean)

imageUrlImage (image)

imagesPhoto gallery (array)

sourceUrlSource URL (link)

detailsRawAll disclosed facts (verbatim) (object)

changeTypeChange (incremental mode) (text)

changedFieldsChanged fields (array)

firstSeenAtFirst seen (text)

lastSeenAtLast seen (text)

locationLocation (text)

stateCodeState code (text)

categoryFinalCategory (final) (text)

auctionStartDateAuction start (text)

auctionEndDateAuction end (text)

recentlyAddedRecently added (boolean)

recentlyUpdatedRecently updated (boolean)

leaseRateDurationLease rate duration code (number)

fetchedAtFetched at (text)

Example output

An example from this actor’s documentation. Values are illustrative; this is not a fresh live result.

{
  "id": "0000000",
  "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/sample-business/0000000/",
  "title": "Established Sample Business",
  "category": "Sample Category > Subcategory",
  "listingType": "established",
  "city": "Sample City",
  "state": "FL",
  "shortDescription": "Short teaser from the search card.",
  "fullDescription": "Full listing description text appears here when fetchDetails is on.",
  "askingPrice": 250000,
  "cashFlow": 95000,
  "grossRevenue": 480000,
  "ebitda": null,
  "inventory": 20000,
  "ffe": 35000,
  "realEstate": "Leased",
  "establishedYear": 2018,
  "employees": "4 FT",
  "reasonForSelling": "Retirement",
  "supportTraining": "2 weeks included",
  "financingAvailable": "Yes",
  "relocatable": "No",
  "homeBased": "No",
  "franchise": "No",
  "leaseInfo": "$3,500.00",
  "facilities": "Home based. Equipment fits in a single van.",
  "growthExpansion": "Owner has identified two adjacent territories with no active competitor.",
  "competition": "A handful of regional operators, none offering the same turnkey service.",
  "realEstateIncluded": false,
  "priceReduced": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/000/0000000/000000-W768.webp",
  "images": [
    "https://images.bizbuysell.com/shared/listings/000/0000000/000000-W768.webp"
  ],
  "brokerName": "Jane Doe",
  "brokerPhone": "+15550000000",
  "brokerageName": "Sample Brokerage",
  "brokerProfileUrl": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-broker/sample/0000/",
  "brokerLicense": "00000000",
  "datePosted": "January 1, 2026",
  "isVerified": true,
  "detailsRaw": {
    "askingPrice": "$250,000",
    "cashFlow": "$95,000",
    "establishedYear": "2018"
  },
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/businesses-for-sale/"
}

Ways to use this data

Business brokers and M&A advisors: pull comparable active listings by category and region to price a new engagement.
Buyers and searchers: build a filtered watchlist by industry, price range, and cash flow, and monitor it on a schedule for new matches.
Franchise buyers: track franchise-for-sale listings alongside their broker contact details.
Deal sourcing for search funds and small PE: build an acquisition target list with financials attached, ready for a CRM or a spreadsheet.
Lead generation teams: collect broker names, phone numbers, and brokerages tied to active listings in a given market.

Before you run

Start with a small input and check the resulting records against your expected fields. Source content and actor options can change; the current Apify listing is the reference for availability and pricing.

Questions about this actor

What data does BizBuySell Scraper return?

The documented output for BizBuySell Scraper includes id, url, title, category, type, city, state and short description. Availability of each field depends on the source page and the selected mode.

How much does BizBuySell Scraper cost?

It costs $2.20 per 1,000 results on the Apify Free plan and from $1.50 on paid plans, with smaller per-run or optional feature charges listed on Apify. The Apify listing shows the current rate for every plan.

Can I get only new or changed listings on a schedule?

Yes. Schedule the actor from the Schedules tab and turn on Incremental mode. Each run then returns only new, updated, and reappeared listings, and unchanged ones are not billed unless you opt in with emitUnchanged.

Why do my cash flow or gross revenue filters let through listings that don't match?

minCashFlow and minGrossRevenue are checked against values that are usually only on the listing detail page. A listing whose value is unknown is kept rather than dropped. Turn on fetchDetails so those values are fetched before the filter is applied; with it off, only listings whose search card shows a lower value are filtered out.

Can I use it with AI agents or MCP?

Yes. Call it from any Apify integration or MCP client, and use the connector field to push results into Notion, Linear, or Airtable.