Product Hunt Scraper

Every launch on a Product Hunt leaderboard, topic or product page, with votes, comments, ranks, makers and website, as clean JSON.

Product Hunt is where new software, AI tools and apps launch every day. This Actor reads the homepage, the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboards, the launch feed for any topic, and individual product pages, and returns each launch with its name, tagline, description, vote and comment counts, daily, weekly and monthly rank, topics, categories, makers, hunter, pricing, website, logo, review rating and follower count. Paste a Product Hunt URL; there is no login and no API key. Built for startup and VC deal-flow scouting, competitor and market tracking, lead generation, and newsletters that cover new launches.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/leaderboard/daily/2026/10/12" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	yes	—	Product Hunt URLs: the homepage, a leaderboard (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly), a topic, the launch feed, or a product page. See the list below.
maxItems	integer	no	—	Maximum number of launches per start URL. The input form starts at 5; leave it empty to get every launch the page lists.
includeDetails	boolean	no	true	Open each launch's product page to add its description, website, makers, hunter, categories, pricing, reviews and followers.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }	Proxy settings. Product Hunt blocks datacenter IPs on its leaderboards, homepage and product pages, so residential proxies are used by default.

Supported URLs

Page	Example	What you get
Homepage	https://www.producthunt.com/	Today's top launches, in ranking order (about 20).
Daily leaderboard	https://www.producthunt.com/leaderboard/daily/2026/10/12	The top launches of that day, in ranking order.
Weekly, monthly, yearly	https://www.producthunt.com/leaderboard/weekly/2026/41, …/monthly/2026/9, …/yearly/2025	The top launches of that period, in ranking order.
Topic	https://www.producthunt.com/topics/developer-tools	The 50 most recent launches in that topic.
Launch feed	https://www.producthunt.com/feed	The 50 most recent launches across Product Hunt.
Product	https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion	The product and its latest launch.

📤 Output

Each launch is one dataset row. Leaderboards and the homepage give votes, comments, ranks and topics straight away; topics and the launch feed give the name, tagline, launch date and hunter, and the product page fills in the rest. With includeDetails on (the default) every row is completed from its product page.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Product Hunt launch ID.
slug	string	The launch's short name in Product Hunt URLs.
name	string	Launch name.
tagline	string	One-line tagline.
description	string	The launch description, or the product description when the launch has none. Needs includeDetails.
url	string	The product's page on Product Hunt.
productId	string	Product Hunt product ID. A product can have several launches.
productSlug	string	The product's short name in Product Hunt URLs.
productName	string	Product name, which can differ from the launch name (for example "ngram" for the launch "ngram 2.0"). Needs includeDetails.
websiteUrl	string	The product's own website. Needs includeDetails.
thumbnailUrl	string	The launch thumbnail or product logo.
launchedAt	string	When the launch went live (ISO 8601, Pacific time); for feed rows without details, when it was submitted.
votesCount	number	Upvotes, as Product Hunt shows them. null when the maker hides them.
commentsCount	number	Number of comments.
dailyRank	number	Rank on its launch day.
weeklyRank	number	Rank in its launch week.
monthlyRank	number	Rank in its launch month.
topics	array	Topic names, such as "Developer Tools".
categories	array	Product categories, such as "Survey and form builders". Needs includeDetails.
pricingType	string	Pricing as the maker set it, such as free or free_options. Needs includeDetails.
makers	array	The makers: name, username, headline and profileUrl. Needs includeDetails.
hunter	object	The person who posted the launch: name, username, headline and profileUrl.
reviewsCount	number	Number of product reviews. Needs includeDetails.
reviewsRating	number	Average review rating out of 5, when the product has reviews. Needs includeDetails.
followersCount	number	Number of people following the product. Needs includeDetails.
source	string	Where the launch was listed: homepage, leaderboard, feed or product.
startUrl	string	The start URL that produced this row.

💡 Use cases

• Deal-flow and startup scouting — track every day's top launches, their traction and their makers.
• Competitor and market monitoring — follow a topic's new launches and see who is shipping in your space.
• Lead generation — reach makers of new products, with their website and Product Hunt profile.
• Newsletters and content — build daily or weekly roundups of the best new products.
• Trend research — compare votes, comments and topics across days, months and years.

❓ FAQ

• Do I need a Product Hunt account or API key? No. The Actor reads the same public pages any visitor sees.
• Why a residential proxy? Product Hunt blocks cloud and datacenter IPs on its leaderboards, homepage and product pages. Topic and feed URLs work without a proxy when includeDetails is off, which is the cheapest way to track new launches.
• How many launches does a leaderboard give? The launches Product Hunt shows before "load more": about 17 on a leaderboard and about 20 on the homepage. For a longer history, add one daily leaderboard URL per day.
• Why are some fields empty on feed rows? The topic and launch feeds carry only the name, tagline, date and hunter. Keep includeDetails on and each row is completed from its product page, including votes and comments for recent launches.
• Why is votesCount sometimes null? Product Hunt lets makers hide the vote count, usually during the first hours of a launch.
• A topic URL returned nothing. Product Hunt does not have a launch feed for every topic or category; the log says when a topic is not recognised. Try the topic's slug from a producthunt.com/topics/... link.
• Can I scrape many pages at once? Yes. Add one URL per page to startUrls; maxItems applies to each one separately.
• Something looks off? Open an issue with the URL you used.

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🖼 Image credit

Image credit: producthunt.com