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💼 BizQuest Scraper

🚀 Pull US business-for-sale listings from BizQuest in minutes. Asking price, cash flow, financials, broker contacts, industry, location. No API key, no manual CSV wrangling.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-08 · 📊 38 fields per listing · 🔍 Location, industry, price, cash flow filters · 🚫 No auth required

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parseforge/bizquest-scraper on Apify. Call:ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/bizquest-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs:maxItems(integer,default10),location(string,default"California"),industry(string,default"Restaurant"),priceMin(integer),priceMax(integer),cashFlowMin(integer). Full actor spec: fetch build via GEThttps://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~bizquest-scraper(Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

Pull live business-for-sale listings from BizQuest, one of the largest US business marketplaces. The actor walks the BizQuest catalog with your filter combination, paginates through results, and returns one structured record per listing ready for acquisition research, broker prospecting, deal flow tracking, or comp analysis.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of BizQuest, not a stale dump. Records include asking price, cash flow (SDE), gross income, broker contact info, industry, location detail down to ZIP and street address, business type flags (home-based, absentee-owner, franchise, financing available), and the listing date.

📋 What the BizQuest Scraper does

• 💰 Pricing. Asking price, cash flow (SDE), and gross income with the values BizQuest displays.
• 📍 Location detail. State, county, city, ZIP, and street address where exposed.
• 🏷️ Industry and type. Industry classification, business type, year established, employee count.
• 👤 Broker contact. Broker name, company, phone, email plus the TPN forwarding number.
• 🏠 Listing flags. Home-based, absentee-owner, franchise, relocatable, hot property, financing available, real estate included.
• 🖼️ Image and description. Primary listing image plus full text description, facilities, support, FFE.

The scraper accepts location and industry filters (free-text), price range, cash-flow range, and a listing-age cutoff. It walks BizQuest result pages with your filter combination, fetches each detail page, and pushes the structured record to the dataset.

💡 Why it matters: BizQuest has the largest pool of small-business-for-sale listings in the US but the site is paginated and rate-limited. A live, structured pull beats manual scraping for buyer research, broker prospecting, and deal-flow monitoring.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing setup, a live run, and how to pipe results into Google Sheets via Apify integrations.

⚙️ Input

Example 1. California restaurants, $250K-$1M asking price.

{
"location":"California",
"industry":"Restaurant",
"priceMin":250000,
"priceMax":1000000,
"maxItems":50
}

Example 2. Texas manufacturing businesses with $300K+ cash flow listed in last 30 days.

{
"location":"Texas",
"industry":"Manufacturing",
"cashFlowMin":300000,
"dateListingAdded":30,
"maxItems":100
}

⚠️ Good to Know: when forceAllFilters is true, only listings that satisfy every filter are returned. Set it to false to fall back to BizQuest's default behavior.

📊 Output

The dataset returns one structured record per business listing. Each record carries identifiers, full pricing, location detail, broker contact, industry classification, and listing metadata. Consume the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS via the Apify console or API.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

1. Typical record (restaurant for sale)

{
"imageUrl":"https://www.bizquest.com/images/listing/12345.jpg",
"businessId":"BQ-12345678",
"title":"Established Italian Restaurant in Sonoma County",
"askingPrice":"$485,000",
"cashFlow":"$152,000",
"grossIncome":"$1,200,000",
"location":"Sonoma County, CA",
"city":"Sonoma",
"state":"CA",
"county":"Sonoma",
"zip":"95476",
"industry":"Food & Beverage / Restaurant",
"businessType":"Asset Sale",
"employees":"12 FT, 8 PT",
"yearEstablished":"1998",
"homeBased":"No",
"absenteeOwner":"No",
"isFranchise":"No",
"financingAvailable":"Yes - SBA Pre-Qualified",
"buildingSquareFeet":"3,200",
"brokerName":"John Smith",
"brokerCompany":"ABC Business Brokers",
"brokerPhone":"+1 707 555 1212",
"brokerEmail":"john@abcbiz.com",
"description":"Profitable family-style restaurant with strong local following...",
"listingUrl":"https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/established-italian-restaurant/12345678/",
"listingDate":"2026-04-12T00:00:00.000Z",
"scrapedTimestamp":"2026-05-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

2. Home-based business (sparse fields)

{
"businessId":"BQ-22334455",
"title":"Online Curriculum Business with Recurring Revenue",
"askingPrice":"$120,000",
"cashFlow":"$48,000",
"grossIncome":"$95,000",
"location":"Anywhere USA",
"industry":"Education",
"businessType":"Asset Sale",
"employees":"1 FT (owner)",
"homeBased":"Yes",
"relocatable":"Yes",
"isFranchise":"No",
"brokerName":"Jane Doe",
"brokerCompany":"Online Biz Brokers",
"listingUrl":"https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/online-curriculum/22334455/",
"listingDate":"2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"scrapedTimestamp":"2026-05-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

3. Hot listing with real estate (full record)

{
"imageUrl":"https://www.bizquest.com/images/listing/77889900.jpg",
"businessId":"BQ-77889900",
"title":"Profitable Auto Service Center with Real Estate",
"askingPrice":"$1,950,000",
"cashFlow":"$420,000",
"grossIncome":"$2,800,000",
"location":"Dallas, TX",
"city":"Dallas",
"state":"TX",
"zip":"75201",
"industry":"Automotive / Service",
"yearEstablished":"1985",
"employees":"9 FT",
"hotProperty":"Yes",
"financingAvailable":"Yes",
"includesRealEstate":"Real Estate Included in Asking Price",
"buildingSquareFeet":"8,400",
"brokerName":"Mike Johnson",
"brokerCompany":"Texas Business Advisors",
"brokerPhone":"+1 214 555 9876",
"listingUrl":"https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/auto-service/77889900/",
"listingDate":"2026-04-25T00:00:00.000Z",
"scrapedTimestamp":"2026-05-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 Production-grade structured deal-flow data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, source-native filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the BizQuest Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set filters. Pick a location, industry, price range, and cash-flow range, then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🔌 Automating BizQuest Scraper

This Actor exposes a REST endpoint, so you can drive it from any language or workflow tool.

• Node.js - call it via the Apify JS SDK.
• Python - call it via the Apify Python SDK.
• REST - hit it directly through the Apify v2 API.

Schedules. Use Apify Scheduler to run hourly, daily, or weekly snapshots. Combine with the Apify dataset diff tools to track new, updated, or removed listings between runs.

💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test BizQuest Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running BizQuest Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running BizQuest Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using BizQuest Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run BizQuest Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use BizQuest Scraper?

Yes. BizQuest Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Integrate with any app

BizQuest Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend or alert your team in Slack.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more reference-data scrapers.

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by BizQuest or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and lead-generation use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.