miahj1 / bizquest-scraper

Scraping bizquest for a client.

BizQuest Scraper

Homepage | Businesses for Sale

Founded in 1994, BizQuest is the original business-for-sale website connecting business brokers, sellers, and buyers, boasting a vast inventory of businesses for sale, a comprehensive directory of business brokers, and a leading franchise opportunities directory, with millions of annual visits to their desktop and mobile sites.

Python Modules

• beautiful soup 4
• requests
• re
• types
• threading
• pandas

Summary

The data scraped from the website consists of information regarding the listing of businesses that are up for sale where the client specified these elements to be extracted:

• The title of the listing and the link to the listing.
• Sidebar information such as the asking price, gross revenue, cash flow, ebitdta, inventory, and ff&e.
• The content in the body of the listing: business description as well as all the fields in about the business and about the sale.

The client requested each piece of the data circled in red below.

Data Preview

A short peak into what the collected, organized, and pre-processed data looks like.

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