PR TIMES Press Release Scraper (Japan)

Collects Japanese press releases from PR TIMES — Japan's largest press-release distribution platform (100,000+ companies) — and returns them as clean, structured JSON. Built for media monitoring, competitor tracking, PR analytics and LLM / RAG datasets in Japanese.

What you get

For each press release:

Field	Description
title	Headline
company, companyId	Publishing company and its PR TIMES ID
publishedAt, modifiedAt	ISO 8601 timestamps (JST source)
category	PR TIMES category (e.g. イベント, 商品サービス)
description	Meta description
bodyText, bodyLength	Full body text, paragraphs joined by newlines — ready to embed or summarize
images, ogImage, thumbnail	Image URLs
url, releaseId, source	Canonical URL, release ID and which input produced it

Input

• Keywords — e.g. 生成AI, EC, SaaS. Returns the latest ~40 releases per keyword.
• Company IDs — the number in https://prtimes.jp/main/html/searchrlp/company_id/XXXX. Paginates through the company's whole archive (newest first), so you can pull a competitor's full release history.
• Release URLs — direct URLs if you already have them.
• Published after — stop at releases older than this date (works best with Company IDs).
• Fetch full body — turn off to only list title/URL/company/date (5× cheaper).

Pricing (pay per event)

You pay only for results:

• Press release (full body) — one release with body text, category, images and metadata.
• Press release (listing only) — title, URL, company and date only.

No subscription; the Apify free plan is enough to try it.

Use cases

• Competitor monitoring — schedule the Actor daily with your competitors' company IDs and push new releases to Slack / Notion via Apify integrations.
• Media & PR analytics — count releases per category / company over time.
• Japanese LLM datasets — body text is normalized (no navigation, no scripts) so it drops straight into RAG pipelines or fine-tuning corpora.
• Lead generation — find companies announcing funding, new offices or product launches in your niche.

Example output

{
  "title": "【虎ノ門ヒルズ×PR TIMES】一次情報で街の活性化を図る、新コラボ始動",
  "company": "株式会社PR TIMES",
  "companyId": 112,
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-06T23:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "イベント",
  "bodyText": "9月7日開始、200面以上に毎日掲出…",
  "bodyLength": 4567,
  "images": ["https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/112/1698/....png"],
  "url": "https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001698.000000112.html"
}

Notes

• Only publicly available pages are accessed, at low concurrency (default 4). Please respect PR TIMES' terms and each company's copyright when reusing the content.
• Keyword search returns the latest ~40 results by design of the site; use company IDs for full archives.
• Japanese-language support and other Japanese data sources (Qiita/Zenn tech articles, e-Stat statistics) are available from the same developer.