# Press Release Sales Intelligence — Funding, M\&A & Leads (`lokki/press-release-intelligence-scraper`) Actor

Find and rank revenue opportunities from five press-release sources. Transparent no-AI scoring adds timing, confidence, business needs, buyer roles, contacts, and proof URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lokki/press-release-intelligence-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ian Dikhtiar](https://apify.com/lokki) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools, Other
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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:

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

Monitor acquisitions from a GlobeNewswire M\&A feed:

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Optional filter terms. Matching is applied against title, summary, body, companies, tickers, and event labels.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Newswire feeds, listing pages, RSS/XML feeds, or direct press release URLs. Leave empty to use default PR Newswire + GlobeNewswire feeds.

## `maxReleases` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on pushed release rows.

## `sinceHours` (type: `integer`):

Only keep releases newer than this window when a published date is available. Set 0 to disable.

## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch detail pages and extract body/contact/enrichment fields. Disable for cheaper headline-only monitoring.

## `dedupeMode` (type: `string`):

How duplicate releases are suppressed.

## `classifyEvents` (type: `boolean`):

Adds event labels such as funding, M\&A, earnings, partnership, product launch, executive hire, legal/compliance, and customer win.

## `extractContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Extract visible emails, phone numbers, and contact names from releases.

## `maxPagesPerSource` (type: `integer`):

For PR Newswire listing URLs, paginate ?page=1..N. For GlobeNewswire RSS directory, use up to N RSS feeds.

## `maxCandidates` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on unique candidate releases fetched and enriched before query filtering. Prevents long-running broad searches.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify proxy configuration. Usually not needed for RSS-first runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "acquisition",
    "funding",
    "AI",
    "NASDAQ:AAPL"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-latest-news/acquisitions-mergers-and-takeovers-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/business-technology-latest-news/business-technology-latest-news-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-latest-news/health-latest-news-list/",
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/orgclass/1/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20News%20about%20Public%20Companies",
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/subjectcode/27-Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions",
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/rss/list"
  ],
  "maxReleases": 100,
  "sinceHours": 168,
  "includeFullText": true,
  "dedupeMode": "url_title_hash",
  "classifyEvents": true,
  "extractContacts": true,
  "maxPagesPerSource": 15,
  "maxCandidates": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "acquisition",
        "funding",
        "AI",
        "NASDAQ:AAPL"
    ],
    "sources": [
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list/",
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-latest-news/acquisitions-mergers-and-takeovers-list/",
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/business-technology-latest-news/business-technology-latest-news-list/",
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-latest-news/health-latest-news-list/",
        "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/orgclass/1/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20News%20about%20Public%20Companies",
        "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/subjectcode/27-Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions",
        "https://www.globenewswire.com/rss/list"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lokki/press-release-intelligence-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 = {
    "queries": [
        "acquisition",
        "funding",
        "AI",
        "NASDAQ:AAPL",
    ],
    "sources": [
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list/",
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-latest-news/acquisitions-mergers-and-takeovers-list/",
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/business-technology-latest-news/business-technology-latest-news-list/",
        "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-latest-news/health-latest-news-list/",
        "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/orgclass/1/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20News%20about%20Public%20Companies",
        "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/subjectcode/27-Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions",
        "https://www.globenewswire.com/rss/list",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lokki/press-release-intelligence-scraper").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "acquisition",
    "funding",
    "AI",
    "NASDAQ:AAPL"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/news-releases-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-latest-news/acquisitions-mergers-and-takeovers-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/business-technology-latest-news/business-technology-latest-news-list/",
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-latest-news/health-latest-news-list/",
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/orgclass/1/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20News%20about%20Public%20Companies",
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/RssFeed/subjectcode/27-Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions/feedTitle/GlobeNewswire%20-%20Mergers%20and%20Acquisitions",
    "https://www.globenewswire.com/rss/list"
  ]
}' |
apify call lokki/press-release-intelligence-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lokki/press-release-intelligence-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/R4YRi6mTFHxGRBJSm/builds/7RQ3dcFJSBjDnPNGR/openapi.json