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Brad

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  • Joined November 2025

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An Apify actor that scrapes the latest articles from PR Newswire and extracts structured M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) entities using OpenAI's GPT models.

Overview

This actor:

  • 🔍 Scrapes the last 10 articles (configurable) from PR Newswire M&A pages
  • 📄 Extracts full article text content
  • 🤖 Uses OpenAI API to extract structured M&A entities:
    • BUYER: Acquiring companies/entities
    • SELLER: Companies being sold/divested
    • FUND: Investment funds, PE, VC firms
    • LAW_FIRM: Legal firms involved
    • INTERMEDIARY: Investment banks, advisors
    • PROFESSIONAL: Individual professionals
    • MONEY: Deal values and financial figures
    • DATE: Transaction dates
    • DEAL_TYPE: Type of transaction

Input

The actor accepts the following input via Apify's input JSON:

{
  "site_url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-latest-news/acquisitions-mergers-and-takeovers-list/",
  "max_articles": 10
}

Input Parameters

  • site_url (required): URL of the PR Newswire page to scrape. Must be a valid PR Newswire news releases page.
  • max_articles (optional): Maximum number of newest articles to process. Defaults to 10, maximum 100. The actor returns the most recently posted articles first.

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