Flippa Business Listings Scraper

Flippa Business Listings Scraper

Scrape Flippa business listings by search, category, price, or revenue, up to a million per run. Every listing comes with its price, revenue, profit, and seller details. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

Flippa's official API requires a partnership and rate-limits you. This reads the public business listing pages directly, filtered by search term, category, price, or revenue, and returns each match in one fixed schema. It is the fastest way to build a dataset of online businesses for sale.

Who uses it	What they scrape Flippa for
Market researchers	Which online business niches are most active this month
Investors	A shortlist of listings that meet their price and revenue criteria
Business brokers	Comparable sales data to price a client's business
Data analysts	A clean dataset of listing metrics for trend analysis

What it does

This Actor collects Flippa business listings by search query, category, price range, revenue range, or direct URL, and returns each one as a flat row.

• 🔍 Search filters: search term, category, price range, revenue range, and sort order.
• 🔗 Direct URLs: paste any Flippa search or category page URL to scrape exactly those results.
• 📊 Computed signals: listing age, price-to-revenue multiple, and revenue growth where available.
• 📁 Flat output: one row per listing, ready for CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML export.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with Flippa data

📈 Track market trends.

A market researcher runs the Actor weekly with a category filter to see which business models are gaining listings and price momentum.

💰 Find acquisition targets.

An investor sets priceMin and revenueMin to get a shortlist of profitable businesses within budget, then exports to CSV for due diligence.

📊 Build comparable sales.

A business broker scrapes sold listings in a niche to justify a valuation for a client's website.

🔔 Monitor new listings.

A data analyst schedules the Actor daily with a search term and sortBy newest to catch fresh opportunities before competitors.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
No API key	Scrape public Flippa pages without registration or rate limits
Flexible input	Use a direct URL or combine search term, category, price, and revenue filters
Scalable	Collect up to 1,000,000 listings per run
Structured data	Every listing returns the same flat schema for easy analysis

How it compares

This Actor focuses on flexible filtering and high-volume scraping of Flippa listings, while competitors may offer API access or email extraction.

Feature	ParseForge	Flippa Scraper API	Flippa Scraper | All-In-One	FLIPPA.com [Only $1💰] Search by Url | Detail Pages (/w EMAILS)
Search by keyword	Yes	Not listed	Yes	Yes
Filter by price range	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Filter by revenue range	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Sort results	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Scrape direct URL	Yes	Not listed	Not listed	Yes
Extract seller emails	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Yes
API access	Not listed	Yes	Not listed	Not listed

Configure the run

Drive the Actor from a Flippa search URL or from search filters. If you set any search filter (search term, category, price or revenue range), the filters are used and the Start URL is ignored, because the Start URL field is pre-filled in the Console. The sort order applies to both. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "startUrl": "https://flippa.com/search?query[keyword]=food",
  "maxItems": 10
}

A larger pull:

{
  "startUrl": "https://flippa.com/search?query[keyword]=food",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 100 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Flippa Business Listings Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Flippa through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/flippa-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting no results?

Check that your search filters are not too restrictive. Try broadening the price or revenue range, or use a more general search term. If you set both a Start URL and search filters, the filters win and the Start URL is ignored.

The Actor stops before reaching maxItems.

Flippa may have fewer listings than your maxItems, or the search returned no more pages. Verify your filters and try a different sort order.

I get an error when using startUrl.

Make sure the URL is a Flippa search or category page on flippa.com (a single listing URL is not accepted), and that no search filter is set, because filters replace the Start URL.

Some fields are empty in the output.

Not all listings have every field populated. Empty fields mean the data was not present on the public page. Flippa's search results show monthly revenue and profit rounded (for example $27.1K), and do not show a bid count for classified listings, the auction end time, or a thumbnail. Turn on Include listing details for the exact key metrics from each listing page.

The run is slow.

Reduce maxItems or narrow your filters to limit the number of pages to scrape. You can also increase the Actor's memory in the run settings.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need a Flippa account or API key?	No. The Actor scrapes public listing pages directly, so no login or API key is required.
Can I scrape a specific Flippa search URL?	Yes. Paste any Flippa search URL into the startUrl field, and the Actor will collect all listings from that page and pagination.
How do I filter by price or revenue?	Use the priceMin, priceMax, revenueMin, and revenueMax fields in the search filters section. When any of them is set, the Start URL is ignored.
What data does each listing include?	Each row includes the listing title, URL, price, revenue, profit, category, seller information, and other details available on the public page.
Can I sort the results?	Yes. Use the sortBy field: lowest or highest price, most profitable, most recent, ending soonest, or most active. Flippa's search no longer offers revenue-ascending or oldest-first, so those two fall back to Flippa's default order.
How many listings can I scrape in one run?	You can set maxItems up to 1,000,000. The Actor will stop after reaching that number.
What output formats are supported?	The Actor returns data in JSON, and you can export to CSV, Excel, or XML from the Apify platform.
Is this legal?	Scraping public data is generally allowed, but you should review Flippa's terms of service and comply with applicable laws.
Can I schedule this Actor to run automatically?	Yes. Use Apify's scheduler to run it daily, weekly, or at any interval.
Does it handle pagination?	Yes, the Actor automatically follows pagination links to collect all listings up to maxItems.

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🆘 Need help? Email parseforge@protonmail.com with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Flippa, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.