BusinessWire Press Releases Scraper

Search and export press releases from BusinessWire in seconds. This Actor gives you fast keyword and date search over a continuously updated, always-current feed of BusinessWire press releases, with relevance-ranked results and clean structured output ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, or API consumption.

Use it to monitor competitors, track M&A and earnings announcements, build financial datasets, power media monitoring tools, or feed downstream LLM pipelines with grounded, sourceable press release data.

Why use the BusinessWire Press Releases Scraper?

Get clean, structured press releases from BusinessWire in seconds — searchable by keyword, filterable by date, and ready to drop into a spreadsheet, database, or LLM pipeline.

• Press releases, on demand. Pull the latest releases, a date range, or every release matching a keyword — no browser, no HTML parsing on your side.
• Search like Google. Partial-word matching and accent-insensitive search mean cafe merger finds Café Holdings announces merger — no exact-match fuss.
• Headline-weighted relevance. Title matches surface first, so the most relevant releases come back at the top.
• Date range filtering. Pull every release between any two dates with one parameter — perfect for event windows, quarterly research, or building datasets.
• Structured output. Every row is clean JSON with stable field names. Pipe straight into Sheets, your database, or your own pipeline.
• No scraping fragility on your side. You don't run a browser, manage proxies, or parse HTML. Runs finish in seconds, not hours.

Common use cases

• Competitive intelligence — track product launches, leadership changes, and partnership announcements across an industry.
• Financial & investor research — surface earnings, guidance updates, M&A activity, and IPO filings on a date range.
• Media monitoring & PR analytics — measure share-of-voice for a brand, executive, or topic over time.
• Dataset building for AI/ML — export press releases as a labeled corpus for fine-tuning, retrieval, or sentiment analysis.
• Lead generation — find companies announcing funding rounds, expansions, or hiring sprees.
• Brand & topic tracking — follow a company or theme as new releases are published.

How to use the BusinessWire Press Releases Scraper

1. Open the Actor and go to the Input tab.
2. (Optional) Type a keyword or phrase into Search query — e.g. acquisition. Leave it empty to simply browse the newest releases.
3. (Optional) Set From date / To date to restrict results to a publication window.
4. (Optional) Adjust Max records (default 100, max 1000).
5. Click Start. Results appear in the Output tab within seconds and can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML.

Input

All fields are optional — combine them freely.

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Keyword search across title and content. Tokens are partial-word matched and combined. Leave empty to browse by date.
titleOnly	boolean	Restrict query to the title only. Default false.
fromDate	string	Lower bound for pubDate (inclusive), YYYY-MM-DD.
toDate	string	Upper bound for pubDate (inclusive), YYYY-MM-DD.
maxRecords	integer	Cap on rows returned. Default 100, max 1000.

Example queries

Browse the 50 most recent press releases:

{ "maxRecords": 50 }

Search for acquisition news in June 2026:

{ "query": "acquisition", "fromDate": "2026-06-01", "maxRecords": 20 }

Find M&A headlines only (title match):

{ "query": "merger acquisition", "titleOnly": true, "maxRecords": 10 }

Pull every release mentioning a company in a date window:

{ "query": "tesla", "fromDate": "2026-06-01", "toDate": "2026-06-30", "maxRecords": 1000 }

Get full body text for downstream LLM use:

{ "query": "guidance raised", "maxRecords": 25 }

Output

Each row in the dataset is a clean JSON object. A simplified example:

{
  "id": 5519,
  "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260615573442/en/Blackline-Safety-Shareholders-Approve-Arrangement-with-Francisco-Partners",
  "title": "Blackline Safety Shareholders Approve Arrangement with Francisco Partners",
  "timestamp": "2026-06-15T16:26:00.000-07:00",
  "pubDate": "2026-06-15",
  "body": "VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blackline Safety Corp. ...",
  "source": "INVESTOR/ANALYST CONTACT",
  "storyId": "20260615573442",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-15T23:26:00+00:00",
  "language": "en",
  "dateline": null,
  "geoRegion": null,
  "industryCodes": null,
  "subjectCodes": null,
  "categoryNames": null
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel, or pull it programmatically via the Apify API.

Data table

Field	Description
id	Internal press release ID
url	Canonical BusinessWire URL
title	Press release headline
pubDate	Publication date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)
timestamp	Publication timestamp as reported by BusinessWire
body	Full press release body text
source	Source / contact line
storyId	BusinessWire story identifier
publishedAt	Normalized publication datetime (UTC, ISO 8601)
language	Language code
dateline	Dateline (location/date)
geoRegion	Geographic region
industryCodes	Industry classification codes
subjectCodes	Subject classification codes
categoryNames	Category names

How search works

• No query → results sorted by pubDate, newest first.
• With query → results sorted by relevance, with headline matches ranked above body matches.
• Partial-word matching — clean energy matches releases containing both clean and energy, in any order.
• Accent-insensitive — cafe matches Café.
• Date filters apply to the pubDate field; releases with a missing publication date are excluded when a date filter is set.

How much does it cost to scrape BusinessWire?

• maxRecords is capped at 1,000 rows per run. To pull more, split your request across date ranges over multiple runs.
• Runs typically finish in seconds — you pay only for compute time, which is minimal. The Apify free tier is enough to evaluate the Actor.

Tips

• Use a date window with maxRecords: 1000 to page through a busy period one slice at a time.
• Use titleOnly: true when you want high-precision headline matches and fewer incidental body hits.
• Combine a query with a tight date range to monitor a topic during a specific event window.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

How fresh is the data? The feed is continuously updated, so new BusinessWire press releases become searchable shortly after they are published.

Is scraping BusinessWire legal? This Actor provides structured access to publicly available press releases for research and monitoring purposes. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with BusinessWire's Terms of Service and applicable laws. Do not use the output to republish content in violation of copyright.

Can I integrate this with my app? Yes — every Apify Actor exposes a REST API and webhooks. Trigger runs from your backend and read results from the dataset endpoint.

Something missing or broken? Open an issue from the Actor's Issues tab in the Apify Console. Feedback drives the roadmap, and custom solutions are available on request.