Press Release Intelligence Scraper — PR Newswire & GlobeNewswire Leads

Turn fresh press releases into sales, investor, PR, and competitive-intelligence signals.

This Actor monitors press releases from PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire, paginated newswire listing pages, RSS feeds, and direct release URLs. Instead of dumping raw headlines, it returns clean, spreadsheet-ready rows with company names, event labels, tickers, contact details, sentiment, and source links.

Why use this Actor?

Press releases are one of the fastest public signals for:

• M&A and divestitures — catch acquisitions, sales, mergers, and strategic transactions.
• Funding and growth signals — find companies announcing financing, expansion, partnerships, and launches.
• B2B sales triggers — build warm outreach lists from companies announcing new budgets, products, contracts, or executive moves.
• Investor monitoring — track public-company announcements by source, topic, ticker, and date.
• PR and comms intelligence — monitor competitor announcements and media contact details.
• AI/news pipelines — feed clean press-release rows into agents, CRMs, dashboards, Sheets, or vector workflows.

What you get

Each result can include:

• Press release title, summary, URL, source, and publication date
• Company / issuer name
• Business event labels such as merger_acquisition, funding, earnings, partnership, product_launch, executive_hire, customer_win, and expansion
• Stock tickers when visible in the release
• Media / investor-relations emails and phone numbers when full text is enabled
• Sentiment and signal score for prioritization
• Matched keywords for alert workflows
• Full release body text when enrichment is enabled

Bulk collection, not just 20 RSS rows

Many newswire RSS feeds expose only the latest ~20 releases. This Actor can go deeper by using paginated listing pages.

Example: PR Newswire listing pages can be expanded with maxPagesPerSource, letting you collect hundreds of releases in one run.

A tested cloud run produced 300 rows from paginated PR Newswire listings with full-text enrichment disabled.

Best use cases

Sales teams

Find companies that just announced funding, partnerships, product launches, acquisitions, contracts, or leadership changes. Use the release as outreach context while the event is still fresh.

Investors and analysts

Monitor public-company announcements and classify events into actionable buckets instead of reading a wall of headlines.

PR agencies and brand teams

Track competitors, clients, industries, and campaigns across major wire services.

Automation builders

Send rows to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Airtable, n8n, Zapier, Notion, Slack alerts, or AI agents via the Apify API.

Example input

Collect up to 300 recent releases from paginated PR Newswire pages:

{
  "queries": [],
  "maxReleases": 300,
  "sinceHours": 720,
  "includeFullText": false,
  "maxPagesPerSource": 15
}

Monitor acquisitions from a GlobeNewswire M&A feed:

{
  "sources": [
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/subjectcode/27-Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions"
  ],
  "queries": ["acquisition"],
  "maxReleases": 100,
  "includeFullText": true
}

Input options

Field	What it does
queries	Keywords, companies, tickers, or topics to match. Leave empty to collect everything.
sources	RSS feeds, paginated listing pages, or direct press release URLs. Defaults include PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire sources.
maxReleases	Maximum number of dataset rows to return.
sinceHours	Freshness window. Use 720 for roughly 30 days.
includeFullText	Fetch full release pages for body text, contacts, and stronger classification. Disable for cheap bulk headline collection.
maxPagesPerSource	Number of PR Newswire listing pages or GlobeNewswire RSS directory feeds to expand.
maxCandidates	Safety cap on unique releases inspected before keyword filtering. Defaults to 500 to prevent runaway broad searches.
classifyEvents	Add business-event labels.
extractContacts	Extract visible media / IR emails and phone numbers.

Example output

{
  "sourceName": "GlobeNewswire",
  "title": "Nexans completes the sale of Autoelectric to Motherson",
  "url": "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-03T13:05:05.000Z",
  "companyName": "Nexans",
  "eventTypes": ["merger_acquisition"],
  "sentiment": "neutral",
  "signalScore": 100,
  "contacts": {
    "emails": ["audrey.bourgeois@nexans.com"],
    "phones": []
  },
  "intelligence": {
    "hasContact": true,
    "isHighSignal": true,
    "matchedQueries": []
  }
}

Cost and speed

• Headline mode (includeFullText: false) is fastest and cheapest. Best for collecting hundreds of rows.
• Full-text mode (includeFullText: true) fetches each release page and extracts body text / contacts. Best for smaller, higher-value runs.
• Source and detail fetches use bounded concurrency; duplicate URLs are removed before enrichment to avoid wasted runtime.
• For large runs, collect headlines first, then re-run enrichment on only the best signals.

Current sources

• PR Newswire RSS and paginated listing pages
• GlobeNewswire RSS feeds and RSS directory expansion
• Direct PR Newswire / GlobeNewswire release URLs
• Custom RSS/XML feeds and compatible listing pages

Limitations

• RSS feeds may expose only the latest ~20 releases; use paginated listing pages for bulk collection.
• Business Wire, Accesswire, EIN Presswire, and PRWeb adapters are planned but not yet fully tested.
• Event classification is rules-based. It is optimized for speed and cost, not legal/investment-grade interpretation.
• Contact extraction only returns information visible in the release text.
• Source websites can change structure; use small scheduled checks for critical workflows.

Common workflows

• Daily acquisition tracker
• Funding announcement lead list
• Public-company announcement monitor
• Competitor launch tracker
• PR campaign archive
• Press release feed for AI agents or dashboards

Support

If a source changes or you need another wire service added, open an issue or contact the Actor maintainer with the source URL and example output you need.