BizBuySell Business Details Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes detailed business listing data from individual BizBuySell.com pages. It's designed for developers, analysts, and firms who need structured data from the platform for market research, lead generation, or investment analysis. It handles the site's specific structure and outputs clean JSON.

Key Features

• Targeted Extraction: Parses the specific layout of BizBuySell listing pages to pull business descriptions, financials, location, and listing metadata.
• Proxy Support: Configurable to use Apify Proxy with residential IPs (e.g., RESIDENTIAL group) to avoid bot detection.
• Error Handling: Includes retry logic for failed requests (max_retries_per_url) and an option to ignore URL failures to continue a batch job.
• Batch Processing: Accepts multiple URLs in an array for efficient, large-scale data collection.
• Structured Output: Returns consistently formatted JSON data, ready for analysis or database import.

How to Use

Configure the actor with a JSON input specifying the target URLs and proxy settings. The actor will fetch each page, extract the data, and deliver a dataset of structured records.

Input/Output

Input: The actor expects a JSON object with the following parameters:

{
  "max_retries_per_url": 2,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "SG"
  },
  "ignore_url_failures": true,
  "urls": [
    "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-real-estate-for-sale/cash-flow-opportunity-auto-industry-including-real-estate/2341507/",
    "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-real-estate-for-sale/well-established-marin-county-market-deli-and-coffee-bar/2338563/"
  ]
}

• urls: (Required) Array of BizBuySell business listing URLs to scrape.
• proxy: Configure Apify Proxy; using residential proxies is recommended.
• max_retries_per_url: Number of retry attempts for a failed request.
• ignore_url_failures: If true, the run won't fail if some URLs error.

Output: The dataset contains items, each representing a scraped listing. Each item includes fields like title, description, askingPrice, cashFlow, location, and other details present on the page.

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