Tool converts Japan's largest press-release platform into LLM-ready JSON datasets

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A developer has published a guide and accompanying Apify scraper tool that transforms press releases from PR TIMES — Japan's largest press-release distribution platform used by over 100,000 companies — into structured JSON records suitable for AI and data applications. Each record includes the release title, company details, publication timestamp, category, full body text, and images, with navigation and boilerplate stripped out. The tool accepts keyword searches, company IDs, or direct URLs as input, and supports filtering by publication date to fetch only recent content. Potential use cases include competitor monitoring, building Japanese-language RAG corpora, PR analytics, and lead generation from funding or expansion announcements. The scraper is available on Apify under a pay-per-release pricing model, with no monthly subscription fee, and can also be invoked via MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude or Cursor.

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