# PR Newswire Scraper (`kibaale/pr-newswire-scraper`) Actor

Scrape press releases from PR Newswire by category listing, company page or direct release URL — full text, metadata, images and contact details. No login, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kibaale/pr-newswire-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [kibalee](https://apify.com/kibaale) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.30 / 1,000 results

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?

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

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# README

## PR Newswire Scraper

Every press release on PR Newswire, as clean structured records — full text,
publication time, source company, images and contact details. Paste in the
pages you want (or a whole category), get one record per release out. No
login, no API key, nothing to install.

### What you get

- **Full release text** — every paragraph of the article in order, with the
  boilerplate ("About the company", media-contact block, SOURCE line) cut off
- **Exact metadata** — publication time with time-zone offset, release ID
  (PR Newswire's own ever-increasing number), language, headline
- **Source & contact details** — the company behind the release, the
  dateline location, phone and contact name — and the contact email,
  decoded automatically
- **Images** — image URLs straight from the release page
- **Whole categories** — crawl an industry category from page 1 to the end
  (large ones hold 30,000+ releases), a single company's feed, search
  results, or a mix of everything in one run
- **Listing-only mode** — if you only need *that* a release exists (monitoring,
  alerting), turn off full text and get title/timestamp/summary records at a
  fraction of the cost
- **No browser, no API key** — lightweight requests, so runs are
  fast and cheap
- **Always fresh** — every run fetches the live page at that moment

### Quick start

Input — one URL per row; category pages, company pages, search pages and
direct release URLs can be mixed freely:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/business-technology-latest-news/computer-software-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news/cloudintelligence.ai-llc/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aicostai-expands-its-independent-ai-cost-policy-and-governance-decision-intelligence-platform-for-the-agentic-multi-model-enterprise-302869728.html"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerListing": 100,
  "fetchFullText": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

#### Finding category URLs

Browse PR Newswire's industry menus — every category link looks like
`prnewswire.com/news-releases/<industry>-latest-news/<topic>-list/`. All of
them work here; search-result URLs (`/search/news/?keyword=...`) work too.

### Example record

One record per release in your dataset (with full text on):

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...-302869728.html",
  "releaseId": 302869728,
  "title": "AICost.ai Expands Its Independent AI Cost, Policy and Governance ...",
  "language": "en-US",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-04T09:21:00-04:00",
  "source": "CloudIntelligence.ai llc",
  "dateline": "IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 4, 2026",
  "description": "AICost.ai, developed by Irvine-based CloudIntelligence.ai, today ...",
  "body": ["IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AICost.ai, ...", "..."],
  "images": ["https://mmx.prnewswire.com/media/MS1981030/aicost-ai-...jpg"],
  "emails": ["Subu.Vdaygiri@CloudIntelligence.ai"],
  "phone": "(949) 378-7860",
  "contactName": "Subu Vdaygiri",
  "fullText": true
}
```

### Input fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `startUrls` | PR Newswire pages to scrape — category/company/search listings or direct release URLs (mixed freely) |
| `maxItemsPerListing` | Stop after this many releases per listing URL. `0` = crawl the whole listing (large categories: 30,000+) |
| `fetchFullText` | On: opens every release page (body, images, contacts). Off: listing data only (title, timestamp, summary) |
| `maxConcurrency` | Parallel release pages fetched at once (1–16) |

Direct release URLs are always returned in full regardless of
`fetchFullText`.

### Record fields

With full text on:

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `url`, `releaseId` | Release page URL and PR Newswire's release ID (higher = newer) |
| `title`, `language` | Headline and language (e.g. `en-US`, `de`) |
| `publishedAt` | Publication time, ISO 8601 with Eastern-Time offset |
| `source` | Company that issued the release |
| `dateline` | City/state and date line as shown on the release |
| `description` | Lead summary without the "/PRNewswire/ --" prefix |
| `body` | Release paragraphs in order, boilerplate excluded |
| `images` | Image URLs from the release |
| `emails`, `phone`, `contactName` | Decoded contact details from the media-contact block (empty when the release lists none) |
| `fullText` | `true` |

With full text off: `url`, `releaseId`, `title`, `language`, `publishedAt`,
`summary`, `fullText: false`.

### Tips

- **Monitoring:** PR Newswire release IDs increase over time. Crawl a
  category in listing-only mode and compare `releaseId` values against your
  last run to spot new releases cheaply.
- **Multilingual:** categories mix languages; each record carries its own
  `language`, so filtering is easy.
- **Fair use:** the actor adds a short pause between pages and obeys the
  site's request patterns. Large categories take a while — start with
  `maxItemsPerListing` small to see the pace.

### How much does it cost you?

Each release record you scrape is billed as one dataset item. You pay
per item only when a run actually finishes a record — failed or empty runs
cost nothing.

### FAQ

**Does it work on the international PR Newswire sites?** The main global
site (prnewswire.com) is supported. Country editions and language sites
(e.g. prnewswire.co.uk, /es/, /de/) may use the same markup but are not
verified yet — if a page produces no data, drop a note in the actor's
discussion.

**Why are some email fields empty?** Not every release publishes contact
details; short distributor releases often end at the SOURCE line with no
email or phone at all.

**What is `publishedAt`'s time zone?** Releases are stamped with US Eastern
Time; the offset (-04:00 in summer, -05:00 in winter) is included, so the
instant is unambiguous.

# Actor input Schema

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

One PR Newswire page URL per row — category listings, company pages, search pages and direct release URLs can be mixed freely in a single run. Category pages are crawled page by page until the max-items limit or the end of the category.

## `maxItemsPerListing` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many releases for each listing URL (category / company / search). 0 = scrape the whole listing — beware, large categories hold 30,000+ releases. Direct release URLs are always scraped regardless of this value.

## `fetchFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Open every release page to get the full body, images, source company, dateline and contact details. When off, only the listing data is returned (title, timestamp, summary) — much cheaper, useful for monitoring.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many release pages to fetch at the same time. Higher values finish faster but send more parallel requests. Listing pages are always fetched one at a time.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/computer-software-latest-news/software-list/"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerListing": 100,
  "fetchFullText": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Press release records stored in the run's default dataset

# 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": [
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/computer-software-latest-news/software-list/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kibaale/pr-newswire-scraper").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": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/computer-software-latest-news/software-list/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kibaale/pr-newswire-scraper").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": [
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/computer-software-latest-news/software-list/"
  ]
}' |
apify call kibaale/pr-newswire-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kibaale/pr-newswire-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/ISWWYNeNabZT72Vz0/builds/AYqNY3tHVYhY1rjzO/openapi.json