PR Newswire, Business Wire and GlobeNewswire releases in one keyword-filtered feed

If you are looking for a PR Newswire API, a Business Wire API or a GlobeNewswire API, this guide covers a practical alternative: Press Release Monitor, an Apify Actor that reads the public RSS feeds of the three wires and returns one row per press release, filtered by the keywords you choose. It is not an official vendor API. It reads the public feeds the wires publish, so you can search a press release API-style feed without writing a scraper.

What you get

Each row is one press release with these fields:

• source: prnewswire, businesswire or globenewswire
• title, url (the canonical link on the wire's own site) and publishedAt (ISO date)
• summary: the feed description with HTML stripped, up to 1,000 characters
• company: a heuristic name taken from the headline (see the FAQ)
• categories: values from the feed's own category tags, when a wire publishes any
• matchedKeywords: which of your keywords appear in the title or summary
• body: up to 8,000 characters of full text, only when Fetch full release text is on
• guid, error and scrapedAt

error is set only on a row that stands for a wire whose feed could not be read. The other wires still return their rows. A sample row:

No recorded sample is available yet.

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Call it from code

Here is a bounded example input. Every key and range comes from the Actor's input schema:

{
    "sources": ["prnewswire", "globenewswire"],
    "keywords": ["funding", "acquisition"],
    "maxItemsPerSource": 50,
    "sinceHours": 24,
    "includeBody": false,
    "maxConcurrency": 3
}

maxItemsPerSource accepts 1 to 1000, sinceHours 0 or more (0 disables the time filter) and maxConcurrency 1 to 20. The code below runs the Actor's default prefill, which you can change to the input above:

import json
import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("webdatatools/press-release-monitor").call(run_input=json.loads("{\n    \"sources\": [\n        \"prnewswire\",\n        \"businesswire\",\n        \"globenewswire\"\n    ],\n    \"keywords\": [\n        \"funding\",\n        \"acquisition\",\n        \"partnership\"\n    ],\n    \"maxItemsPerSource\": 100\n}"))

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('webdatatools/press-release-monitor').call({
    "sources": [
        "prnewswire",
        "businesswire",
        "globenewswire"
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "funding",
        "acquisition",
        "partnership"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerSource": 100
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/webdatatools~press-release-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sources":["prnewswire","businesswire","globenewswire"],"keywords":["funding","acquisition","partnership"],"maxItemsPerSource":100}'

Recipes

Monitor a competitor

Put the competitor's name in Keywords. Matching is a case-insensitive substring match against the title and summary only, not the full body.

Keyword alerts for sales triggers

Use keywords such as funding, acquisition or partnership, set Only releases from the last N hours to 24, and put the run on an Apify schedule. The README describes attaching a webhook so each run can feed Slack, email or a CRM.

A feed for an AI agent

The README states that the Actor is pay-per-event and callable through the Apify MCP server. An agent passes keywords and receives matching releases, which it can summarize into a briefing.

How much does it cost?

Press Release Monitor charges per release row: $0.001 per row, which is $1 per 1,000 releases, plus a negligible actor-start fee. Current event rates by Apify plan:

Primary event rates from a catalog snapshot; this is not the total price of a run. Additional charge events and Actor Start fees may apply; start fees can scale with memory. Check the Actor's Pricing tab on Apify for all events, conditions and current plan-specific rates, and set a maximum run budget before starting.

Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor trims the collected releases, newest first, to what the budget covers. These are primary event rates; check the Actor's Pricing tab for the full list.

How it compares

FAQ

Does PR Newswire have a public API?

This guide does not confirm whether PR Newswire offers an API. What the Actor does is read PR Newswire's public RSS feed. To get PR Newswire releases, select the PR Newswire source and run the Actor. Release pages are fetched only when Fetch full release text is on.

Is there a Business Wire API?

The same applies: this guide does not confirm a Business Wire API. The Actor reads Business Wire's public RSS feed. Its body is always null, because the README says businesswire.com returns HTTP 403 to non-browser requests, so the Actor never fetches Business Wire release pages.

Is this the full wire archive?

No. Each feed holds only the wire's most recent releases. Run the Actor on a schedule with Only releases from the last N hours to build your own history over time.

Why is the company field sometimes wrong?

It is a heuristic, not a named-entity extractor. It takes the title text before the first of " Announces", " Reports", " Launches" or a comma, and falls back to the feed's creator or contributor field when the title has none of those markers. Check it on securities-style notices, where the fragment before the marker may not be the filer.

Why are categories empty for PR Newswire and Business Wire?

The README says their RSS feeds do not publish a standard category tag on releases. GlobeNewswire's category tags carry stock ticker and ISIN codes rather than topic names, and the Actor passes them through as they are.

Do I need an API key?

No. The README says the Actor needs no API key.

How do I avoid getting the same release twice?

Use Only releases from the last N hours on a schedule. Results are also deduped by URL within a single run. The README does not describe deduplication across separate runs, so check overlap between runs yourself.

Can I export the results?

Yes. You can export JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Output tab or through the API, and the dataset has ready-made Overview and Full detail views.