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Cision PR Newswire API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Cision PR Newswire publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 56,295 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

EnglishSpanishChinese#28 by volume

Four ways to pull prnewswire.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from prnewswire.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.prnewswire.com&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/rss?host=www.prnewswire.com&size=50"open it →

JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/feed.json?host=www.prnewswire.com&size=50"open it →

Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.prnewswire.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

What this outlet covers, by share of its recent output:

crime 38%technology 10%

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Cision PR Newswire headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.prnewswire.com&size=5"
56,295
articles indexed
15,115
in the last 30 days
758
median per day
10
languages
71 min
median crawl lag
09.06 → 07.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 89 days. The busiest hour is 12:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-06-09: 1,271 articles2026-06-10: 1,050 articles2026-06-11: 1,183 articles2026-06-12: 600 articles2026-06-13: 85 articles2026-06-14: 46 articles2026-06-15: 946 articles2026-06-16: 1,257 articles2026-06-17: 958 articles2026-06-18: 1,049 articles2026-06-19: 429 articles2026-06-20: 62 articles2026-06-21: 24 articles2026-06-22: 919 articles2026-06-23: 1,329 articles2026-06-24: 1,152 articles2026-06-25: 1,335 articles2026-06-26: 730 articles2026-06-27: 119 articles2026-06-28: 31 articles2026-06-29: 978 articles2026-06-30: 1,157 articles2026-07-01: 1,069 articles2026-07-02: 578 articles2026-07-03: 370 articles2026-07-04: 87 articles2026-07-05: 25 articles2026-07-06: 621 articles2026-07-07: 1,080 articles2026-07-08: 991 articles2026-07-09: 995 articles2026-07-10: 432 articles2026-07-11: 71 articles2026-07-12: 44 articles2026-07-13: 720 articles2026-07-14: 1,156 articles2026-07-15: 995 articles2026-07-16: 1,034 articles2026-07-17: 461 articles2026-07-18: 89 articles2026-07-19: 65 articles2026-07-20: 758 articles2026-07-21: 1,171 articles2026-07-22: 912 articles2026-07-23: 975 articles2026-07-24: 413 articles2026-07-25: 80 articles2026-07-26: 44 articles2026-07-27: 852 articles2026-07-28: 1,148 articles2026-07-29: 1,014 articles2026-07-30: 1,050 articles2026-07-31: 538 articles2026-08-01: 71 articles2026-08-02: 30 articles2026-08-03: 879 articles2026-08-04: 1,175 articles2026-08-05: 895 articles2026-08-06: 1,042 articles2026-08-07: 485 articles2026-08-08: 62 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 792 articles2026-08-11: 1,260 articles2026-08-12: 956 articles2026-08-13: 1,065 articles2026-08-14: 498 articles2026-08-15: 67 articles2026-08-16: 64 articles2026-08-17: 771 articles2026-08-18: 1,118 articles2026-08-19: 873 articles2026-08-20: 1,042 articles2026-08-21: 417 articles2026-08-22: 70 articles2026-08-23: 43 articles2026-08-24: 829 articles2026-08-25: 1,031 articles2026-08-26: 988 articles2026-08-27: 1,190 articles2026-08-28: 530 articles2026-08-29: 48 articles2026-09-01: 36 articles2026-09-02: 31 articles2026-09-03: 230 articles2026-09-04: 652 articles2026-09-05: 118 articles2026-09-06: 70 articles2026-09-07: 264 articles06-0906-2307-0707-2108-0408-1809-0309-07

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Cision PR Newswire: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.prnewswire.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Cision PR Newswire actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 56,295 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 8120001: 7390102: 9110203: 7020304: 7940405: 9050506: 1,4850607: 1,8730708: 1,9960809: 1,7960910: 2,9781011: 3,2851112: 7,9251213: 7,7811314: 5,5091415: 3,1451516: 2,6871617: 2,2351718: 1,9151819: 1,6331920: 2,3462021: 1,1192122: 8742223: 85023
Mon: 9,329MonTue: 14,189TueWed: 11,884WedThu: 12,768ThuFri: 6,555FriSat: 1,029SatSun: 541Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 6% of their articles.

Languages

The site identifies itself under Cision PR Newswire, PR Newswire, Canada NewsWire, prweb, PR Newswire UK — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish51,61791.7%
esSpanish8391.5%
zhChinese7961.4%
ptPortuguese5220.9%
jaJapanese4160.7%
deGerman3880.7%
koKorean3780.7%
arArabic3110.6%
viVietnamese2640.5%
frFrench2100.4%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Cision PR Newswire articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.prnewswire.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.prnewswire.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well Cision PR Newswire marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

94%
dates from JSON-LD
66%
articles with a byline
6%
articles with sections
206 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 71 min at the median, 1706 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Cision PR Newswire have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 56,295 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Cision PR Newswire publish per day?

758 on a median day, measured across 89 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.