# PR TIMES Press Release Scraper (Japan) (`morikuma/prtimes-press-release-scraper`) Actor

Collect Japanese press releases from PR TIMES by keyword or company. Clean JSON (title, full body text, company, category, date, images) ready for LLM/RAG, media monitoring and competitor tracking. Pay only per release.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/morikuma/prtimes-press-release-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [yuuki mori](https://apify.com/morikuma) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.8% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 press release (listing only)s

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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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## PR TIMES Press Release Scraper (Japan)

Collects Japanese press releases from **[PR TIMES](https://prtimes.jp)** — 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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Search keywords (Japanese or English). Latest ~40 releases per keyword.

## `companyIds` (type: `array`):

PR TIMES company IDs (the number in /searchrlp/company_id/XXXX). All releases of the company are paginated.

## `releaseUrls` (type: `array`):

Direct press-release URLs (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/....html).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many releases (total across all sources).

## `fetchBody` (type: `boolean`):

Open each release page and extract the full body text, category, images and JSON-LD. Turn off to only list titles/URLs (cheaper).

## `publishedAfter` (type: `string`):

Skip releases older than this date.

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

Number of pages fetched in parallel (keep it low to be polite to the site).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "生成AI"
  ],
  "companyIds": [],
  "releaseUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "fetchBody": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `releases` (type: `string`):

JSON array of press releases: title, company, companyId, publishedAt, category, description, bodyText, images, url.

## `releasesCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data as CSV.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "生成AI"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("morikuma/prtimes-press-release-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 = { "keywords": ["生成AI"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("morikuma/prtimes-press-release-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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "生成AI"
  ]
}' |
apify call morikuma/prtimes-press-release-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,morikuma/prtimes-press-release-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/qBKyq1qM4UxQrAXcH/builds/4cMx7g7rrhv7OLDtL/openapi.json