# Product Hunt Launches & Maker Leads Scraper (`authoritative_glen/producthunt-launches-makers-leads`) Actor

Extract real-time trending Product Hunt launches, makers, founder profiles, social leads, official project websites, and product intel for B2B lead generation.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/authoritative_glen/producthunt-launches-makers-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Rahmad Rizki](https://apify.com/authoritative_glen) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🚀 Product Hunt Launches & Maker Leads Scraper

Extract real-time Product Hunt trending launches, makers, founder profiles, social leads, official project websites, and product intel for B2B sales outreach and market intelligence.

### 🎯 Key Capabilities

- **Verified Maker & Founder Leads:** Automatically extracts maker full names, avatars, and direct Product Hunt profile links.
- **Direct Domain & Website Resolution:** Resolves Product Hunt tracking redirects to identify the company's real production landing page.
- **Rich Product Intelligence:** Extracts official taglines, long-form descriptions, and categories.
- **Top Niche Filtering:** Target all daily launches or filter by high-value tech niches (*Tech, Developer Tools, Productivity, Marketing, AI*).
- **Fast & Resilient:** Engineered with lightweight HTTP parsing and automatic fallback layers to guarantee fast run times with zero browser bloat.
- **AI Agent & MCP Ready:** Fully compliant with Apify's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for autonomous agents (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT).

### ⚙️ Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `category` | String | `all` | Target niche (`all`, `tech`, `developer-tools`, `productivity`, `marketing`, `artificial-intelligence`) |
| `maxResults` | Integer | `30` | Maximum number of launches to extract (5 - 100) |
| `resolveWebsites` | Boolean | `true` | Follow redirects to reveal the official product landing page |
| `extractMakerProfiles`| Boolean | `true` | Extract verified maker profiles, names, and avatars |

### 📊 Sample Output

```json
{
  "title": "MOVO AI",
  "tagline": "The world's first long-form video agent for mobile",
  "description": "MOVO AI is the world’s first AI video agent for long-form creation that works right from your phone. It also works on the web. Shoot, upload, or start with an idea, then tell MOVO AI what you want.",
  "hunter": "Zac Zuo",
  "makerCount": 3,
  "makers": [
    {
      "name": "Eric ZZ",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@ericzzz",
      "avatar": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/10208238/original.jpeg?auto=format&crop=faces&fit=crop&h=100&w=100"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aimee",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@aimee_zhang",
      "avatar": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/10207914/cc727a6d-8387-4cfc-ac53-2bcae27959c2.png?auto=format&crop=faces&fit=crop&h=100&w=100"
    }
  ],
  "websiteUrl": "https://movoai.pro/?ref=producthunt",
  "productHuntUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/movo-ai",
  "category": "all",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-18T22:45:58-07:00",
  "postId": "1255211"
}
```

### 💡 Best Use Cases

1. **B2B Prospecting & Outbound:** Reach tech founders and makers on the day they launch when conversion intent is highest.
2. **VC & Angel Dealflow Scouting:** Track newly launching startups across Developer Tools and AI.
3. **Competitive Intel:** Benchmark taglines, positioning, and marketing copy against top daily launches.

### 💰 Pricing & Monetization

- **Pay Per Event (PPE):** Flat, predictable pricing ($3.40 per 1,000 results).
- **Start Event:** $0.00008 / run.
- **Platform Usage Fees:** $0.00 (Platform usage fee OFF).

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Category or feed topic to extract launches from.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of launch records to extract.

## `resolveWebsites` (type: `boolean`):

Follow product redirect URLs to extract direct domain/landing page of the company.

## `extractMakerProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch product pages to parse verified makers, founder profile URLs, and avatars.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "all",
  "maxResults": 30,
  "resolveWebsites": true,
  "extractMakerProfiles": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("authoritative_glen/producthunt-launches-makers-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("authoritative_glen/producthunt-launches-makers-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call authoritative_glen/producthunt-launches-makers-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,authoritative_glen/producthunt-launches-makers-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AwMztnoyO3XUPUVoF/builds/2t5xOk5CWaqjt0mrl/openapi.json