# B2B Company News & Buying Signals Extractor (`generous_impactor/b2b-company-news-buying-signals-extractor`) Actor

Extract recent **company announcements, press releases, blog posts, and buying signals** from any B2B domain in seconds.

Automatically generates **pre-formatted AI Icebreakers** (English & French) ready for outreach sequences in **n8n, Make, Claude MCP, or OpenAI agents**.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/generous\_impactor/b2b-company-news-buying-signals-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [llio masta](https://apify.com/generous_impactor) (community)
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 company news & signals analyzeds

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## B2B Company News, Press Release & Buying Signals Extractor (v1.2)

Extract recent **company announcements, press releases, blog posts, and buying signals** from any B2B domain globally in seconds.

Includes **real date extraction** (RSS, microdata, HTML time tags), **multilingual support (EN, FR, PT, ES, DE)** with auto-language resolution based on TLD, and automatically generates **localized AI Icebreakers** ready for outreach sequences in **n8n, Make, Claude MCP, or OpenAI agents**.

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### 🌟 Key Features

- **Multilingual AI Icebreakers (v1.2):** Generates personalized cold email openers in **English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, or German** based on the target domain extension (`.br`, `.fr`, `.es`, `.de`) or explicitly set language parameter.
- **Real Date Extraction:** Parses exact dates (`YYYY-MM-DD`) from RSS feeds, Schema.org microdata, `<time>` tags, OpenGraph metadata, and textual date patterns.
- **Advanced Buying Signal Classifier:** Categorizes news into:
  - 💰 **Funding / Investment** (Seed, Series A-D, Valuations, Capital Raised, Investors)
  - 🚀 **Product Launch** (New Features, Betas, Major Releases)
  - 🤝 **Partnership & M\&A** (Integrations, Acquisitions, Strategic Alliances)
  - 👤 **Executive Hiring** (CEO, VP, Board Member Appointments)
  - 📈 **Company Growth & Awards** (Milestones, Revenue Growth, Industry Awards)
- **Global Auto-Discovery:** Scrapes RSS/Atom feeds (`/feed`, `/rss.xml`) and falls back to international news pages (`/news`, `/blog`, `/press`, `/noticias`, `/actualites`, `/prensa`).
- **LLM & Agent Ready:** Clean JSON output designed for prompt context injection and automated B2B workflows.

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### 🎯 Use Cases

- **Global Cold Outreach Personalization:** Instantly generate localized email icebreakers in your prospect's native language.
- **Sales Intelligence (n8n / Make):** Trigger automated outreach workflows when a target company announces a new funding round or product launch.
- **AI SDR / Agent Context:** Provide Autonomous AI Agents with real-time news data and classified intent signals.

***

### 📥 Input Format

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "[https://stripe.com](https://stripe.com)" },
    { "url": "[https://airbnb.com](https://airbnb.com)" }
  ],
  "maxNewsPerCompany": 5,
  "generateIcebreakers": true,
  "language": "en"
}
```

#### Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `startUrls` | `Array` | *Required* | List of company domain URLs to analyze. |
| `maxNewsPerCompany` | `Integer` | `5` | Maximum number of news items to retrieve per domain (1 to 20). |
| `generateIcebreakers` | `Boolean` | `true` | Generates localized icebreaker openers for top news. |
| `language` | `String` | *Auto-detected* | Preferred language for icebreakers (`en`, `fr`, `pt`, `es`, `de`). If omitted, auto-detected from TLD. |

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### 📤 Output Example

```json
{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "url": "[https://stripe.com](https://stripe.com)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T21:57:01.356Z",
  "targetLanguage": "en",
  "totalNewsFound": 5,
  "hasRecentActivity": true,
  "aiIcebreaker": "I noticed your recent announcement regarding \"Rethinking risk in the age of AI\" — impressive milestone for stripe.com!",
  "news": [
    {
      "title": "Rethinking risk in the age of AI",
      "url": "[https://stripe.events/stripeforumseattle1](https://stripe.events/stripeforumseattle1)",
      "publishedAt": "2026-06-04",
      "signalType": "General Announcement"
    },
    {
      "title": "Introducing next-day settlement, a faster way to access your earnings",
      "url": "[https://docs.stripe.com/payouts/next-day-settlement](https://docs.stripe.com/payouts/next-day-settlement)",
      "publishedAt": "2025-12-17",
      "signalType": "Product Launch"
    }
  ]
}
```

***

### 💰 Pricing Model

This Actor operates on a **Pay Per Event (PPE)** model:

- **$0.01 per company domain analyzed** (`news-scraped` event)

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Liste des sites web d'entreprises (ex: https://stripe.com ou https://airbnb.com)

## `maxNewsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Nombre d'articles/communiqués récents à récupérer (1 à 20).

## `generateIcebreakers` (type: `boolean`):

Génère des phrases d'accroches personnalisées basées sur les actualités détectées.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://stripe.com"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://airbnb.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxNewsPerCompany": 5,
  "generateIcebreakers": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://stripe.com"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://airbnb.com"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("generous_impactor/b2b-company-news-buying-signals-extractor").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 = { "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://stripe.com" },
        { "url": "https://airbnb.com" },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("generous_impactor/b2b-company-news-buying-signals-extractor").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://stripe.com"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://airbnb.com"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call generous_impactor/b2b-company-news-buying-signals-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,generous_impactor/b2b-company-news-buying-signals-extractor"
        }
    }
}
```

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/icfgca2dzh0R2iPLX/builds/my649qVybwVutU921/openapi.json