# 📰 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

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

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# 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.

### Pricing

| Event | FREE | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actor Start (`apify-actor-start`) | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 |
| Press-release record (`press-release-record`) | $0.005 | $0.0045 | $0.004 | $0.00335 |
| Press-release delta (`press-release-delta`) | $0.015 | $0.0135 | $0.012 | $0.01005 |
| Source check (`source-check`) | $0.10 | $0.09 | $0.08 | $0.067 |

Prices are the filed pay-per-event amounts per plan tier (PLATINUM/DIAMOND match GOLD). Blocked and refused runs do not intentionally charge value events.

# 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
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# 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 <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/mD9dwOgyh4yprl16k/builds/OoOk5Ish3BLoB1VUF/openapi.json