# Flippa Scraper API (`louisdeconinck/flippa-scraper-api`) Actor

The Flippa Scraper API allows users to extract detailed data from Flippa.com listings, including pricing, business metrics, and seller information, for efficient analysis of online business opportunities.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/louisdeconinck/flippa-scraper-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Louis Deconinck](https://apify.com/louisdeconinck) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Automation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 252 total users, 6 monthly users, 97.4% runs succeeded, 14 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

$9.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### What does Flippa Scraper API do?

Flippa Scraper API allows you to easily extract data from the flippa.com website.

Flippa Scraper API can scrape:

- Listing details (ID, URL, title, summary)
- Pricing information (asking price, bid count, sale method)
- Business metrics (monthly revenue, monthly profit, profit multiple)
- Asset information (category, property type, age, location)
- Seller information (broker status, data verification)

### Why scrape Flippa.com?

Flippa.com is the world's leading marketplace for buying and selling online businesses and digital assets. It has over 2 million buyers closing around 5,000 deals per year. You can buy various digital assets, including content sites, e-commerce stores, SaaS products, and apps.

### How to scrape Flippa.com?

It's easy to scrape [Flippa.com](https://flippa.com) with Flippa Scraper API. Just follow these few steps and you'll get your data in a few minutes.

1. Click on Try for free.
2. Click on Run.
3. When Flippa Scraper API has finished, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab.

By default all open Flippa listings are scraped (~5,500 results as of November 2026). You pay per result, so use the optional **Max results** input (or the "Max charged results" / "Maximum cost per run" run option) to limit how many listings, and therefore how much cost, a run produces. Try a small value such as 100 first.

### Results

Example result of a scraped listing:

```json
{
    "id": "12756440",
    "listing_url": "https://flippa.com/12756440",
    "title": "Features charming Golden Retriever content, engaging with followers and promoting products, boosting brand visibility and community interaction.",
    "summary": "Features charming Golden Retriever content, engaging with followers and promoting products, boosting brand visibility and community interaction.",
    "property_name": "Official Golden Retreiver",
    "confidential": false,
    "price": 3500.0,
    "formatted_price": "USD $3,500",
    "sale_method": "classified",
    "sale_method_title": "Asking Price",
    "bid_count": null,
    "time_left": null,
    "status": "open",
    "property_type": "Instagram Account",
    "category": "Internet",
    "country_name": "ID, United States",
    "revenue_monthly": 56.0,
    "formatted_revenue_monthly": "USD $56",
    "profit_monthly": 56.0,
    "formatted_profit_monthly": "USD $56",
    "multiple": 5.2,
    "formatted_age_in_years": "1 year",
    "data_verified": false,
    "broker_seller": false,
    "managed_by_flippa": false,
    "price_dropped": false,
    "price_dropped_percent": null,
    "early_access_listing": false
}
```

Money fields are parsed into numbers (`price`, `revenue_monthly`, `profit_monthly`) and also kept as displayed on Flippa (`formatted_*`). Fields that Flippa shows as "N/A" are `null`.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to scrape. Leave empty to scrape all open listings (~5,500 as of November 2026). You pay per result, so set a limit to control the cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("louisdeconinck/flippa-scraper-api").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxResults": 100 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("louisdeconinck/flippa-scraper-api").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call louisdeconinck/flippa-scraper-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,louisdeconinck/flippa-scraper-api"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/eUQgql30aWuf9zeOr/builds/hFR4Gw10R7X6PrdDm/openapi.json