Australia Business-for-Sale Scraper

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Extract business-for-sale listings across Australia, including prices, locations, categories, financial details, broker information, and listing URLs.

Overview

This Actor scrapes publicly available listings from BusinessForSale.com.au and saves one normalized item per unique business listing to the default Apify dataset.

Users can either:

• Select a location and category from dropdowns
• Paste a custom BusinessForSale.com.au URL

The Actor follows listing pages, pagination, and optionally visits individual listing detail pages for richer data.

Free Preview and Paid Results

• accessMode: "preview" saves a free sample capped at 20 listings.
• accessMode: "full" can save more than 20 listings only when the Apify runtime confirms the runner is a paid-plan user.
• If full is requested by a runner that is not confirmed as paid, the Actor automatically falls back to preview mode and caps output at 20 listings.
• Full paid runs default to 100 listings when no maxResults is provided.
• API callers can use maxItems as an alias for maxResults; maxResults takes priority if both are provided.
• Preview and full runs use the same default dataset schema; the difference is only the result limit.

Supported URL Types

• Search pages
• Location pages
• Category pages
• Filtered listing pages
• Individual business listing pages

Use Cases

• Business acquisition research
• Market research
• Broker lead collection
• Competitor monitoring
• Investment screening
• Custom dashboards
• Data pipelines

Input Example: Beginner Mode

{
"accessMode":"preview",
"location":"nsw",
"category":"cafe",
"maxResults":20,
"includeDetails":true
}

Input Example: Advanced Mode

{
"accessMode":"full",
"startUrls":[
{
"url":"https://www.businessforsale.com.au/for-sale/nsw/coffee-shop/"
}
],
"maxResults":100,
"includeDetails":true
}

Output Example

{
"listing_id":"W10147",
"title":"Established Cafe in Melbourne CBD",
"url":"https://www.businessforsale.com.au/australia/example-id/example-listing",
"category":"Cafe",
"location":"Melbourne VIC",
"state":"Victoria",
"asking_price_text":"$220,000",
"asking_price_aud":220000,
"revenue_text":"$520,000 per annum",
"revenue_aud":520000,
"profit_text":"$115,000 per annum",
"profit_aud":115000,
"rent_text":"",
"rent_aud":null,
"price_to_profit_ratio":1.91,
"profit_margin_percent":22.12,
"description":"Popular cafe located in a high-foot-traffic area...",
"broker_name":"Example Business Broker",
"broker_phone":"+61...",
"broker_email":"",
"images":[
"https://example.com/image.jpg"
],
"source":"businessforsale.com.au",
"scraped_at":"2026-06-01T10:00:00.000Z"
}