PR Newswire Scraper

Scrape press releases from PR Newswire — the world's largest press release distribution network.

For each release, the actor collects:

• Headline — the full press release title
• Publication date — ISO 8601 datetime with timezone offset
• Author / company — the organization that issued the release
• Full body text — the complete text of the press release
• Canonical URL — permanent link to the release page
• Release ID — the unique numeric identifier from the URL slug

Usage

By default, the actor scrapes the All News Releases listing from newest to oldest.

To scrape a specific category listing page, pass one or more URLs via startUrls:

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-latest-news/" },
        { "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/life-sciences-latest-news/" }
    ]
}

Any PR Newswire category listing page that uses the /news-releases/<category>-latest-news/ URL pattern is supported.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of press releases to collect.
startUrls	array	(all releases)	One or more PR Newswire category listing URLs.

Output

Each output record (saved to the dataset) includes:

Field	Type	Description
release_id	string	Numeric ID from the URL slug (e.g. 302793395)
title	string	Press release headline
url	string	Canonical URL
published_at	string	ISO 8601 datetime (e.g. 2026-06-07T14:30:00-04:00)
author	string	Publishing company or author name
summary	string	Short excerpt (when available from listing)
full_text	string	Full body text of the press release
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

Performance

• Setup: none — PR Newswire is directly accessible.
• Concurrency: 5 parallel requests (polite default).
• Coverage: Paginated scraping — all pages of a category listing are crawled.
• Rate limiting: Automatic backoff on HTTP 429 responses.

Technical Notes

PR Newswire has no CAPTCHA to solve, so runs stay fast and cheap. The actor walks pagination for you.

The search feature on prnewswire.com is JavaScript-powered and not accessible to a plain HTTP crawler — use category listing URLs instead.