Product Hunt Kitty Points Leaderboard Scraper

Not all Product Hunt upvotes are equal. If you get upvotes from a well established profile it has more weight. That is why it is good to connect with other Product Hunt users before your launch.

How do you identiy people who are active on Product Hunt? Simple, check out the Product Hunt Kitty Points leaderboard.

This Actor will extract the full Product Hunt Kitty Points leaderboard for any time period ( weekly, monthly, yearly, or all-time). Additionally, you have the option to get detailed data from each Product Hunt profile.

Why use this Actor?

Kitty Points (KP) are Product Hunt's community currency, earned by commenting, reviewing, submitting products, and engaging with the platform. The leaderboard surfaces the most active and influential community members.

Use this Actor to:

• Identify top Product Hunt influencers for outreach or partnership
• Monitor community engagement trends over time
• Build databases of active Product Hunt users for market research
• Track how rankings shift week-over-week or month-over-month

What data does it extract?

Leaderboard dataset (always populated)

Field	Type	Description
rank	Number	Position on the leaderboard
name	String	User's display name
profileUrl	String	Full URL to the user's Product Hunt profile
kittyPoints	Number	Total Kitty Points for the selected period

Profiles dataset (populated only when scrapeProfile is enabled)

The default export will give you only the leaderboard dataset. In order to access profile data you need to go to the Storage tab.

Field	Type	Description
profileUrl	String	Full URL to the user's Product Hunt profile
userName	String	Display name
username	String	Product Hunt handle (the @... part)
headline	String	One-line bio shown on the profile
about	String	Long-form "About" text
dayStreak	Number	Consecutive days visiting Product Hunt
kittyPointsLastMonth	Number / null	Kitty Points earned over the last month
kittyPointsLastYear	Number / null	Kitty Points earned over the last year
kittyPointsAllTime	Number / null	Lifetime Kitty Points
huntedProjects	Number	Number of products the user has hunted
followers	Number	Follower count
following	Number	Following count
website	String / null	Personal website URL
linkedin	String / null	LinkedIn profile URL
xProfile	String / null	X (Twitter) profile URL

How to scrape the Product Hunt leaderboard

1. Create a free account on Apify and open this Actor.
2. Select your Time Period (Last Week, Last Month, Last Year, or All Time).
3. Set Max Scrolls to control how many entries to retrieve (each scroll loads ~100 more users).
4. Toggle Scrape Profile if you want to get the profile details
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Download your results in JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab.

How much will it cost?

This Actor is pay per event. You will be charged for Product Hunt profile found ($1 per 1k results) and per profile scraped ($1.5 per 1k results).

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
period	String	year	Time period: week, month, year, or all_time
maxScrolls	Integer	3	Scroll count to load more entries (0 = first ~100 only)
scrapeProfile	Boolean	false	When enabled, fetch each leaderboard user's profile page for additional details (headline, KP across periods, followers, social links). Profile records are written to a separate dataset.

See the Input tab for all options.

Output

Results are saved across two datasets, both visible under the Storage tab in Apify Console.

Default dataset (leaderboard)

Example record:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "Chris Messina",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@chrismessina",
  "kittyPoints": 19639
}

profiles dataset (only when scrapeProfile is enabled)

Example record:

{
  "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@chrismessina",
  "userName": "Chris Messina",
  "username": "chrismessina",
  "headline": "#1 Hunter!",
  "about": "I've hunted more product than anyone else! ...",
  "dayStreak": 983,
  "kittyPointsLastMonth": 1302.7,
  "kittyPointsLastYear": 19639.88,
  "kittyPointsAllTime": 127211.11,
  "huntedProjects": 4480,
  "followers": 104857,
  "following": 688,
  "website": "https://chrismessina.me",
  "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/in/factoryjoe/",
  "xProfile": "https://twitter.com/chrismessina"
}

You can download results in JSON, CSV, HTML, or Excel from each dataset's view, or access them via the Apify API.

FAQ & Support

Is this legal?

This Actor only extracts publicly visible leaderboard data that Product Hunt displays to all visitors. It does not access private user data, email addresses, or any information not shown on the public pages.

Why are fewer than expected results returned?

Increase the Max Scrolls input to load more leaderboard entries. Each scroll loads approximately 100 additional users. However if you look at short time pirod (like the leaderboard for last week), Product Hunt tends to display only about 200 profiles. If you are looking to a large dataset, select the "All time" leaderboard.

Why is the profiles dataset empty?

Profile scraping is disabled by default to keep runs fast and cheap. Set Scrape profile data to true in the input to populate the profiles dataset. Note that scraping ~100 profiles roughly doubles the run time of a default leaderboard scrape.