BusinessesForSale API

Search BusinessesForSale.com and pull business and franchise listings with asking price, revenue and cash flow as JSON.

The API.SH BusinessesForSale API returns public listings from BusinessesForSale.com, the international marketplace for buying and selling businesses, as structured JSON. Search worldwide or in the US, UK, Canada or Mexico by sector, region, keywords, asking price, revenue and cash flow, with tags such as franchise resale, owner financed or price reduced. Open a listing for its full description, premises, employees and reasons for selling, list a broker's listings, and browse the sector tree with listing counts.

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4 endpoints
from $1 / 1,000 calls
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failed calls free

BusinessesForSale.com search

GET https://api.api.sh/businessesforsale/v1/search

{ "success": true }

1 credit · $1 per 1,000 calls

What you can build with the BusinessesForSale API

Deal sourcing for buyers and searchers

Search by sector, region and asking price with minimum revenue and cash flow, and keep only listings that disclose their figures, to build a pipeline of acquisition targets.

/search /listing

Valuation and multiples research

Collect asking price, revenue and cash flow across a sector to compare how similar businesses are priced.

/search /sectors

New listing alerts

Search with a listing age filter on a schedule, or open the newest matching listing, and send new businesses to your team as they appear.

/search /listing

Broker monitoring

Pull every listing a business broker has on the site to track their inventory, pricing and sectors.

/broker

Market supply by sector

Read the sector tree with the number of listings in each sector and sub-sector to see where supply is concentrated by country.

/sectors

BusinessesForSale data you get

Field names from real responses. Numbers come parsed, URLs absolute, dates in ISO 8601.

BusinessesForSale API endpoints and prices

Every BusinessesForSale endpoint costs 1 credit per call: credits are $1 per 1,000 on a monthly plan, $2 pay-as-you-go. Pricing

Search and discovery1

BusinessesForSale.com search

/businessesforsale/v1/search

$1 · $2 PAYG

1 credit

Products, listings and places2

BusinessesForSale.com broker listings /businessesforsale/v1/broker	$1 · $2 PAYG 1 credit
BusinessesForSale.com listing /businessesforsale/v1/listing	$1 · $2 PAYG 1 credit

More data1

BusinessesForSale.com sectors

/businessesforsale/v1/sectors

$1 · $2 PAYG

1 credit

Call the BusinessesForSale API

BusinessesForSale.com search: GET https://api.api.sh/businessesforsale/v1/search

curl "https://api.api.sh/businessesforsale/v1/search?country=us" \
  -H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY"

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.api.sh/businessesforsale/v1/search",
    params={"country": "us"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
    timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()

const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/businessesforsale/v1/search");
url.searchParams.set("country", "us");

const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json();

# Google Sheets (API.SH add-on)
=APISH("/businessesforsale/v1/search", "country", "us")

# Zapier, Make, n8n (verified node): pick the API.SH app,
# choose "BusinessesForSale" and "BusinessesForSale.com search".

# AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor): add the
# API.SH MCP server https://api.sh/mcp

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Why API.SH for BusinessesForSale data

Public data only: no BusinessesForSale login, cookies or account needed
One key and one response shape for BusinessesForSale and 481 other platforms
Built and maintained by API.SH, not third-party publishers
Pay per call; errors on our side cost nothing
Live status for every endpoint

API.SH vs the official BusinessesForSale API

BusinessesForSale.com does not publish a public data API for its listings. API.SH returns the public listings, brokers and sectors as JSON with one key and no account.

Instead of building a scraper for BusinessesForSale.com or adapting a BizBuySell actor on Apify, use API.SH: one key, the site's own filters and a fixed price per call.

BusinessesForSale API questions

What BusinessesForSale data can I get?+

Search of businesses and franchises for sale (/businessesforsale/v1/search), one listing with full details and broker (/businessesforsale/v1/listing), a broker's listings (/businessesforsale/v1/broker) and the sector tree with listing counts (/businessesforsale/v1/sectors).

How much does the BusinessesForSale API cost?+

Every BusinessesForSale endpoint costs 1 credit per call. On a monthly plan 1,000 credits cost $1 (Starter is $50/month for 50,000 credits). Pay-as-you-go is $2 per 1,000 credits, with top-ups from $15 that never expire.

Is there a free trial?+

Yes. Every account gets 1,000 free credits every month. That is 1,000 calls to /businessesforsale/v1/broker at 1 credit each.

Is there an official BusinessesForSale API?+

Not a public one for reading listings. API.SH reads the public BusinessesForSale.com pages and returns them as JSON.

Do I need a BusinessesForSale.com account?+

No. API.SH reads public pages only. Private sellers' identities are never shown; the listing says whether it comes from a broker or a private seller.

Is there an API for business-for-sale listings?+

Yes. This API returns listings from BusinessesForSale.com in the US, UK, Canada, Mexico or worldwide, with asking price, revenue, cash flow, location, summary and tags for each one.

Can I filter by revenue and cash flow?+

Yes. /businessesforsale/v1/search takes minimum and maximum asking price, revenue and cash flow (profit), plus flags to keep only listings that disclose each figure.

How do I get started?+

1. Sign up at api.sh. 2. Copy your API key. 3. Call /businessesforsale/v1/sectors to get sector ids, then /businessesforsale/v1/search with a country and sector_id. Request examples and every parameter are in the docs at https://api.sh/docs. You can also use the JS or Python SDK, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or the MCP server at https://api.sh/mcp.