# 📰 Press-Release Event Feed — Official Newsroom Watch (`nexgenwatch/public-press-release-event-feed`) Actor One deduped press-release event feed from buyer-supplied official newsroom feeds, with confirmed cross-feed deltas. No licensed wires. - **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgenwatch/public-press-release-event-feed.md - **Developed by:** [NexGen Watch](https://apify.com/nexgenwatch) (community) - **Categories:** Business, News - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $10.05 / 1,000 press-release deltas This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Official Press Release Delta Feed Monitor selected public official newsrooms and receive only new, updated, or confirmed retracted release records after the seed run. ### 1. What it does This actor watches buyer-supplied public RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, or approved official-newsroom listing adapters. It normalizes releases into one schema, stores a private key-value baseline, emits zero alerts on the first (seed) run, and emits record-backed deltas thereafter. Snapshot mode (`watchMode:false`) returns current release records. Use it for regulator, public-company, agency, and institution release monitoring where repeatable records matter. It does not use licensed press-wire sources. ### 2. Input A list of `sources`, each a `publisher` label plus an exact public HTTPS `url` (RSS 2.0, Atom, JSON Feed, or an approved same-host newsroom listing). Options: `watchMode`, `baselineId`, `includeArticleText`, `includeUpdates`, `detectRetractions`, `retractionConfirmations`, `publishedAfter`, `languageInclude`, `keywordInclude`, `keywordExclude`, `maxItems`, `maxRequests`, `maxConcurrency`. No arbitrary URLs, credentials, IP literals, or non-HTTPS origins are accepted; `html_listing` requires an ops-approved `adapterId` (never buyer selectors). Example input: ```json {"sources":[{"publisher":"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission","url":"https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss","format":"auto","jurisdiction":"US"}],"watchMode":true,"includeUpdates":true,"detectRetractions":false,"keywordInclude":["fund","market","investor"],"maxItems":500,"maxRequests":800} ```` ### 3. Output and sample Three record types: `press_release_record` (normalized release with `content_hash`, `canonical_url`, `release_id`, `attachments`), `press_release_delta` (`new_release` / `updated_release` / `retracted_release` with `changed_fields`), and `source_receipt` (per-source terminal: NORMAL / GENUINE\_EMPTY / PARTIAL / BLOCKED). Every item carries `record_type`, `schema_version`, `run_id`, `source_url`, and `observed_at`, and identifies the publisher and canonical release URL. ### 4. Pricing Pay-per-event: press release delta, press release record (snapshot mode), and watch source check. Amounts are configured at publish. `source_receipt` items are always returned and never billed. ### 5. Watch mode The first watch run seeds a private baseline and emits zero deltas. Later scheduled runs emit only confirmed changes. A release is `retracted_release` only when `detectRetractions` is on, its article detail returns 404/410, and that repeats for `retractionConfirmations` consecutive eligible runs — disappearance from a rolling feed is never enough. Same release = lowercase registrable publisher domain plus release id; no fuzzy or cross-publisher matching. Partial or blocked checks never overwrite a healthy baseline. ### 6. API, CLI, and MCP Runs on the Apify platform via API, CLI, schedules, and MCP like any Actor. Watch state persists in a named key-value store; each run is independent and stateless over that store. ### 7. Use with: Communications teams tracking official announcements; compliance teams monitoring regulator releases; investors collecting dated public-company records; researchers maintaining reproducible event corpora; agencies serving multi-client newsroom watches. ### 8. Honest limits No source discovery; no arbitrary selectors; no licensed press wires; no login/paywall/CAPTCHA bypass. Feed disappearance does not prove retraction. Publisher HTML and taxonomy changes can stop an adapter. Publication/update time may be null when the publisher omits it. Live coverage and counts depend on the configured sources. Blocked sources fail loud, never as a silent empty. ### 9. Compliance Public logged-out sources only; no wall-defeating; no CAPTCHA/login/paywall workarounds; comply on objection. No login, private/licensed data, or always-on process. Buyers supply the newsroom feeds and are responsible for lawful use and source terms. # Actor input Schema ## `sources` (type: `array`): Buyer-supplied public official-newsroom feeds. Each is an exact HTTPS RSS 2.0, Atom, JSON Feed, or same-host newsroom listing URL plus a publisher label. No arbitrary URLs, no licensed press wires, no login/paywall. ## `watchMode` (type: `boolean`): Seed a private baseline and emit only confirmed later deltas (new/updated/retracted). The first run emits zero deltas. False emits current snapshot records. ## `baselineId` (type: `string`): Named watch baseline (3-64 chars: letters, digits, \_ or -). Changing the canonical input derives a new baseline. ## `includeArticleText` (type: `boolean`): Fetch at most one same-host public article page per item to capture normalized body\_text. ## `includeUpdates` (type: `boolean`): Emit updated\_release deltas on material content-hash changes. ## `detectRetractions` (type: `boolean`): Emit retracted\_release only after an article detail returns 404/410 for the configured consecutive confirmations. Feed disappearance alone never retracts. ## `retractionConfirmations` (type: `integer`): Consecutive confirmed-gone runs before a release is marked retracted. ## `publishedAfter` (type: `string`): Only emit releases published at or after this RFC3339 date-time (filter only). ## `languageInclude` (type: `array`): 0-20 BCP-47 language tags. Unknown-language items are retained only when this list is empty. ## `keywordInclude` (type: `array`): Keep only releases whose title/summary/body contains one of these terms (Unicode casefold). ## `keywordExclude` (type: `array`): Drop releases containing any of these terms (exclude wins over include). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum value records/deltas to emit this run (receipts excluded). ## `maxRequests` (type: `integer`): Hard run budget of HTTP attempts. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): Global concurrent requests. ## Actor input object example ```json { "sources": [ { "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss", "format": "rss" } ], "watchMode": true, "includeArticleText": false, "includeUpdates": true, "detectRetractions": false, "retractionConfirmations": 2, "maxItems": 1000, "maxRequests": 1000, "maxConcurrency": 6 } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "sources": [ { "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss", "format": "rss" } ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("nexgenwatch/public-press-release-event-feed").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "sources": [{ "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss", "format": "rss", }] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("nexgenwatch/public-press-release-event-feed").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "sources": [ { "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss", "format": "rss" } ] }' | apify call nexgenwatch/public-press-release-event-feed --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgenwatch/public-press-release-event-feed", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "📰 Press-Release Event Feed — Official Newsroom Watch", "description": "One deduped press-release event feed from buyer-supplied official newsroom feeds, with confirmed cross-feed deltas. 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Each is an exact HTTPS RSS 2.0, Atom, JSON Feed, or same-host newsroom listing URL plus a publisher label. No arbitrary URLs, no licensed press wires, no login/paywall.", "items": { "type": "object", "additionalProperties": false, "required": [ "publisher", "url" ], "properties": { "publisher": { "type": "string", "title": "Publisher label", "description": "1-160 character label for the publishing organization (display only)." }, "url": { "type": "string", "title": "Feed / listing URL", "description": "Exact public HTTPS feed or newsroom-listing URL. No credentials, IP literal, fragment, or private-network host." }, "format": { "type": "string", "title": "Feed format", "description": "auto detects RSS/Atom/JSON Feed. html_listing requires an ops-approved adapterId.", "enum": [ "auto", "rss", "atom", "json_feed", "html_listing" ] }, "adapterId": { "type": "string", "title": "HTML adapter id", "description": "Required only for format=html_listing. Allowlisted build-time adapter (never buyer CSS/XPath/code)." }, "jurisdiction": { "type": "string", "title": "Jurisdiction", "description": "Optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, or EU / GLOBAL." } } } }, "watchMode": { "title": "Watch mode", "type": "boolean", "description": "Seed a private baseline and emit only confirmed later deltas (new/updated/retracted). The first run emits zero deltas. False emits current snapshot records.", "default": true }, "baselineId": { "title": "Baseline id", "type": "string", "description": "Named watch baseline (3-64 chars: letters, digits, _ or -). Changing the canonical input derives a new baseline." }, "includeArticleText": { "title": "Include article text", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch at most one same-host public article page per item to capture normalized body_text.", "default": false }, "includeUpdates": { "title": "Emit updates", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit updated_release deltas on material content-hash changes.", "default": true }, "detectRetractions": { "title": "Detect retractions", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit retracted_release only after an article detail returns 404/410 for the configured consecutive confirmations. Feed disappearance alone never retracts.", "default": false }, "retractionConfirmations": { "title": "Retraction confirmations", "minimum": 2, "maximum": 3, "type": "integer", "description": "Consecutive confirmed-gone runs before a release is marked retracted.", "default": 2 }, "publishedAfter": { "title": "Published after", "type": "string", "description": "Only emit releases published at or after this RFC3339 date-time (filter only)." }, "languageInclude": { "title": "Languages to include", "type": "array", "description": "0-20 BCP-47 language tags. Unknown-language items are retained only when this list is empty.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "keywordInclude": { "title": "Keyword include", "type": "array", "description": "Keep only releases whose title/summary/body contains one of these terms (Unicode casefold).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "keywordExclude": { "title": "Keyword exclude", "type": "array", "description": "Drop releases containing any of these terms (exclude wins over include).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum value records/deltas to emit this run (receipts excluded).", "default": 1000 }, "maxRequests": { "title": "Max requests", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard run budget of HTTP attempts.", "default": 1000 }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Max concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 12, "type": "integer", "description": "Global concurrent requests.", "default": 6 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```