Cookbook·News and media·businesswire.com
Scrape articles on businesswire.com
The call that returns articles from businesswire.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.
98.8% success · Aug 2026Browser neededStandard price · 1 credit
About businesswire.com
businesswire.com describes itself as “Business Wire’s press release distribution, investor relations services, and public relations solutions amplify your news to reach global audiences”.
Its home page declares 7 languages: en, de, es, fr, ja, zh-cn, zh-hk.
Its sitemaps list 3,880 URLs across 15 files (2026-09-06, 2026-09-05, 2026-09-04, 2026-09-03, 2026-09-02, 2026-09-01). 3,399 of the 3,876 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.
Its robots.txt names 4 sitemaps and disallows 12 paths, among them /account, /api, /private. It asks crawlers to wait 10s between requests.
Measured on Crawlbase
Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 98.8%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 99.5% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 5.7s.
Among the 74 news and media sites in the Cookbook, businesswire.com ranks 40 of 74 by success rate; the category median is 98.9%. Its median answer of 5.7s is slower than the category median of 2.3s. 58 of the 74 accept the plain token; this one needs the JavaScript token.
The call
Article pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real article URL from the site.
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_JS_TOKEN&country=US&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businesswire.com%2Fnews%2Fhome%2F20260903030976%2Fja%2F"from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_JS_TOKEN'}) r = api.get('http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260903030976/ja/', {'country': 'US'}) html = r['body']
const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase'); const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_JS_TOKEN' }); const r = await api.get('http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260903030976/ja/', { country: 'US' });
Parameters that matter
| Parameter | Set it to | Why |
|---|---|---|
country | US | 99.4% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 99.2%; calls without a country succeed at 69.2%. |
javascript | use the JavaScript token | JavaScript-token calls succeed at 99.2% against 67.2% for the plain token, and 99.4% of calls use it. |
URL patterns accounts fetch
| Pattern | Share of successes | JavaScript token | Country | Query parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
/news/{slug}/{id} | 100% | 99.8% | US | feedref |
Fields you get
Structured data Crawlbase found on businesswire.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:
- Home:
Organization - Article:
NewsArticle, Organization - Other:
BreadcrumbList, Organization
What breaks, and the fix
Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:
403: 42.4% of failures A 403 is the site refusing the exit. Set the country the successful calls use and retry once; a second 403 means the URL itself is protected.
999: 21.7% of failures 999 means the site refused the fetch. Treat it like a block: retry once with the JavaScript token and the country the successful calls use, then stop.
0: 7.8% of failures A status of 0 is a request that never got an answer inside the timeout. Retry once with the JavaScript token if the pattern needs a browser.
591: 21.9% of failures A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.
Run it on a schedule
News moves by the hour. Poll the section or the sitemap for new links, then push the article URLs to the Crawler with a callback so the fetches are paced. The median answer on this site is 5.7s.
Questions
Do I need a browser to scrape businesswire.com?
Yes for most pages. JavaScript-token calls succeed at 99.2% while plain-token calls reach 67.2%.
How much does a businesswire.com page cost on Crawlbase?
1 credit without a browser. businesswire.com is in the standard tier.
Which country should I set for businesswire.com?
US: that is what 99.4% of successful calls use.
Other pages on businesswire.com
Pages businesswire.com lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.
| Page | Example | Token | Country | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Home/Structured data: Organization | businesswire.com/ | Plain | none | 1.9s |
Article/news/{slug}/{id}Structured data: NewsArticle, Organization | businesswire.com/news/home/20260903030976/ja/ | Plain | none | 11.6s |
Other/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}Structured data: BreadcrumbList, Organization | none | Plain | none | 22.2s |
Site names identify the pages a recipe fetches. Crawlbase is not affiliated with any site listed. Use recipes within the acceptable use policy.Measured numbers from August 2026, refreshed monthly