Japan Press Releases Scraper (PR TIMES)
Pricing
Pay per usage
Recent Japanese company press releases from prtimes.jp as English-schema bibliographic records — title, company, publish datetime, category, lead, keywords, thumbnail, URL. For PR monitoring & lead-gen. Unofficial; not affiliated with PR TIMES, Inc. Body full text is never collected.
You can access the Japan Press Releases Scraper (PR TIMES) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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Keep only releases whose title or keyword tags contain ALL space-separated terms (case-insensitive). Japanese or English, e.g. \"AI\", \"生成AI\", \"資金調達\". Matched on the sitemap feed, so it is cheap. Leave empty to take every recent release.", "default": "AI" }, "category": { "title": "Category", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Keep only releases whose PR TIMES release type or business category contains this text (case-insensitive), e.g. \"商品サービス\", \"調査レポート\", \"イベント\", \"テクノロジー\", \"ビューティー\". Requires detailFetch=true (read from the detail page)." }, "companyName": { "title": "Company name", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Keep only releases from companies whose name contains this text (case-insensitive). Requires detailFetch=true (read from the detail page)." }, "dateFrom": { "title": "Published on/after (JST)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. Keep only releases published on or after this JST calendar date. 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