PR Newswire Scraper: press releases, companies and contacts

Get structured data from PR Newswire, the largest press-release wire: search by keyword, list an industry or subject (funding rounds, mergers, personnel changes, product launches, earnings…), follow a company's releases, walk the site-wide feed, or paste any prnewswire.com page, and get one clean row per release with the full text, the issuing company, media contact e-mails and phone numbers, stock tickers, outbound links and images.

Built for news monitoring, lead generation (who just raised money, who just hired a CMO, which agency sent the release), competitor tracking, PR and investor-relations research, and feeding press releases into search indexes or language models.

What you get

One row per release (every row has the same keys, null when the site has no value):

Field	Example
id, url, title	302900251, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sante-raises-15m-series-a-…-302900251.html, "Santé Raises $15M Series A to Expand…"
summary	the site's own one-paragraph description
publishedAt, publishedDate, publishedAtText	2026-10-06T19:20:00.000Z (US Eastern time converted to UTC), 2026-10-06, "Oct 06, 2026, 15:20 ET"
language	en-US, de, es, fr, zh-hant… as the site tags it
organization, organizationUrl	the company that issued the release and its page on the site
imageUrl, mediaType	the release's photo, video thumbnail or logo; photo / video / logo
subtitle	the subheadline shown under the title
datelineCity, datelineDate	"NEW YORK", "Oct. 6, 2026"
text, bodyHtml	the full release as plain text (paragraphs separated by blank lines) and as clean HTML with real outbound links
source	the "SOURCE …" line at the end of the release
emails[], phones[], contactText	media / investor contact e-mails (decoded from the site's obfuscation), phone numbers found in the contact block, and the contact block itself
tickers[]	[{ "symbol": "RHHBY", "exchange": "OTCQX" }] for every ticker the release links
links[]	outbound links in the text, with the site's click tracker removed (company website, product pages, registration links)
images[], videoUrls[]	multimedia in the release
industryCodes[], subjectCodes[]	the wire's classification codes as printed in the page, e.g. ["FNT", "FIN"] and ["VEN", "PDT"] on a funding-round release, ["PDT", "TDS"] on a trade-show product launch
industries[], subjects[]	the same codes with their names ({"code": "VEN", "name": "Venture Capital"}), from the wire's own code table; name is null for a code the table has not seen
companies[], storyId, newsItemId, transmissionId	the wire's own identifiers
relatedReleases[], translations[]	"Also from this source" releases; the same release in other languages or regions
query, section, organizationSlug, listUrl, position	where the release was found and its rank there
detailsFetched	whether the release page was opened for this row

Only public information is collected: everything above is on the public release page, and media contacts are published by the issuer to be contacted.

Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["series A funding", "FDA approval"],
  "industries": [{"code": "ALC", "name": "Beers, Wines and Spirits"}, {"code": "BEV", "name": "Beverages"}, {"code": "AFI", "name": "Artificial Intelligence"}, {"code": "FNT", "name": "Financial Technology"}, {"code": "FIN", "name": "Banking & Financial Services"}, {"code": "CPR", "name": "Computer & Electronics"}],
  "subjects": [{"code": "VEN", "name": "Venture Capital"}, {"code": "PDT", "name": "New Products & Services"}],
  "organizations": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news/roche/", "nvidia"],
  "feed": "none",
  "listUrls": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumer-technology-latest-news/artificial-intelligence-list/"],
  "releaseUrls": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/example-302900437.html"],
  "publishedAfter": "7 days",
  "languages": ["en"],
  "maxReleases": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

• searchQueries run the site's own search, newest release first. Multi-word queries match releases containing the words.
• industries are the 16 sections: automotive-transportation, business-technology, entertainment-media, financial-services, general-business, consumer-technology, energy, environment, heavy-industry-manufacturing, telecommunications, consumer-products-retail, health, sports, travel, policy-public-interest, multicultural. Names ("Health") and section URLs work too.
• subjects are the ~200 subject lists under those sections (see the list below). A slug alone picks the first section that has it; industry/subject picks a specific one; the list's URL always works.
• organizations are company pages (https://www.prnewswire.com/news/roche/) or their slugs.
• feed walks the site-wide list: all (every release, ~1,000 a day), english, or public-company. With publishedAfter 1 day and a scheduled run this is a complete daily feed.
• listUrls take any list, search, subject, company or release page copied from the site.
• publishedAfter accepts a date (2026-10-01) or 1 day, 2 weeks, 1 month. Every list is newest first, so the actor stops as soon as it reaches older releases and a daily run costs only what is new.
• languages keeps only the given language codes (en also matches en-US).
• maxReleases applies per query, section, company, feed or URL. A release found under several sources is delivered once.
• includeDetails off: list fields only (title, summary, time, language, thumbnail, and the company on search results), several times faster and cheaper.

Subject slugs

Auto & Transportation: aerospace-defense, air-freight, airlines-aviation, automotive, maritime-shipbuilding, railroads-and-intermodal-transportation, supply-chain-logistics, transportation-trucking-railroad, travel, trucking-and-road-transportation. Business Technology: blockchain, broadcast-tech, computer-electronics, computer-hardware, computer-software, data-analytics, electronic-commerce, electronic-components, electronic-design-automation, financial-technology, high-tech-security, internet-technology, nanotechnology, networks, peripherals, semiconductors. Entertainment & Media: advertising, art, books, entertainment, film-and-motion-picture, magazines, music, publishing-information-services, radio, television. Financial Services & Investing: accounting-news-issues, acquisitions-mergers-and-takeovers, banking-financial-services, bankruptcy, bond-stock-ratings, conference-call-announcements, contracts, cryptocurrency, dividends, earnings, earnings-forecasts-projections, financing-agreements, insurance, investment-opinions, joint-ventures, mutual-funds, private-placement, real-estate, restructuring-recapitalization, sales-reports, shareholder-activism, shareholder-meetings, stock-offering, stock-split, venture-capital. General Business: awards, commercial-real-estate, corporate-expansion, earnings, environmental-social-governance, human-resource-workforce-management, licensing, new-products-services, obituaries, outsourcing-businesses, overseas-real-estate, personnel-announcements, real-estate-transactions, residential-real-estate, small-business-services, socially-responsible-investing, surveys-polls-and-research, trade-show-news. Consumer Technology: artificial-intelligence, blockchain, cloud-computing-internet-of-things, computer-electronics, computer-hardware, computer-software, consumer-electronics, cryptocurrency, data-analytics, electronic-commerce, electronic-gaming, financial-technology, mobile-entertainment, multimedia-internet, peripherals, social-media, science-tech-engineering-math, supply-chain-logistics, wireless-communications. The remaining sections (energy, environment, heavy-industry-manufacturing, telecommunications, consumer-products-retail, health, sports, travel, policy-public-interest, multicultural) follow the same pattern; paste the list's URL from the site's "Trending Topics" page when in doubt, and the actor tells you the valid slugs when one is wrong.

Output example

{
  "id": "302900251",
  "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sante-raises-15m-series-a-to-expand-the-first-ai-operating-system-for-wine--spirits-retail-302900251.html",
  "title": "Santé Raises $15M Series A to Expand the First AI Operating System for Wine & Spirits Retail",
  "summary": "Santé, a leading fintech and AI platform for the wine and spirits industry, today announced a $15 million Series A funding led by FINTOP…",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-06T19:20:00.000Z",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-06",
  "language": "en-US",
  "organization": "Santé",
  "organizationUrl": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news/sant%C3%A9/",
  "subtitle": "Powering nearly 1,000 stores and processing $2B in GMV, Santé introduces autonomous AI sales tools to drive retail revenue",
  "datelineCity": "NEW YORK",
  "datelineDate": "Oct. 6, 2026",
  "text": "NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Santé, a leading fintech and AI platform…",
  "source": "Santé",
  "emails": ["riley@activate-pr.com"],
  "phones": [],
  "contactText": "Riley Munks\nPR Advisor\nActivate PR\nhttps://www.activate-pr.com/\nriley@activate-pr.com",
  "tickers": [],
  "links": ["https://www.santehq.com/", "https://www.activate-pr.com/"],
  "industryCodes": ["ALC", "BEV", "AFI", "FNT", "FIN", "CPR"],
  "subjectCodes": ["VEN", "PDT"],
  "industries": [{"code": "ALC", "name": "Alcoholic Beverages"}, {"code": "BEV", "name": "Beverages"}, {"code": "AFI", "name": "Agriculture, Food & Beverages"}, {"code": "FNT", "name": "Financial Technology"}, {"code": "FIN", "name": "Banking & Financial Services"}, {"code": "CPR", "name": "Computer Software"}],
  "subjects": [{"code": "VEN", "name": "Venture Capital"}, {"code": "PDT", "name": "New Products & Services"}],
  "query": "series A funding",
  "position": 1,
  "detailsFetched": true
}

Limits worth knowing

• The site's search has no date filter; publishedAfter is applied by the actor, which stops reading as soon as a list reaches older releases.
• Search results list about 100 pages of 100; use a narrower query or a subject list for more.
• Phone numbers are read from the contact block at the end of the release, so a number quoted elsewhere in the text is not a contact. Some issuers publish no contact at all; emails is then [].
• Industry and subject codes are the wire's internal codes. The page prints only the codes; industries and subjects add the names from the wire's own code table (built from the "Explore" links on release pages), so a rare code can come back with name: null.
• Company pages, like the lists, show each release once per language edition, so a bilingual issuer's page holds two rows for one announcement (translations links them).

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription:

Event	Price
Release with details (page opened)	$2.00 per 1,000
Release, list row only (includeDetails: false)	$0.80 per 1,000
Run start	$0.002

1,000 releases with details take about 4 minutes; list rows alone a few seconds per 1,000.

Reliability

• Public pages only, no login, no proxy. Requests are spaced out and run a few at a time; a rate-limit or bot-wall answer is retried with backoff and the whole run slows down instead of hammering the site.
• A release that is gone between the list and its page is delivered as a list row with a warning; if release pages stop answering altogether, the run continues with list rows (charged at the lower price) instead of failing.
• Rows are pushed as they are collected, so a run stopped early still delivers what it has.
• The site's time stamps are US Eastern; publishedAt is converted to UTC, including daylight-saving changes.

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