# Product Hunt Scraper (`axlymxp/producthunt-scraper`) Actor

Export Product Hunt launches and products by date, keyword, category or URL: website, socials, upvotes, ranks, ratings, and makers with their X, website and LinkedIn links. Optional emails and phones from their websites. Pay only for results.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axlymxp/producthunt-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [axly](https://apify.com/axlymxp) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 dataset items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## 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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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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 Scraper

Export **Product Hunt launches and products** by date, keyword, category or URL: product, website and social links,
upvotes, comments and ranks, topics and categories, review rating, and the **makers and hunter with their headlines,
X, website and LinkedIn links**. Turn on **Find contacts** to add the emails and phone numbers published on the product's
and makers' websites. Clean JSON, CSV or Excel, ready for your CRM.

### Who uses it

- **Sales teams and agencies**: a daily list of new startups with their website, founders and contact details.
- **Investors and scouts**: the day's, week's or month's top launches with upvotes and the team behind them.
- **Dev-tool and SaaS vendors**: find launches in your niche (keyword or category) and reach the makers.
- **Market researchers**: map a category with ratings, review counts and launch history.

### What you get (one row per product)

| Field | Example |
| ----- | ------- |
| `product_name`, `product_tagline`, `product_url` | `/dev/null`, `a social network for devs` |
| `website`, `website_domain` | `https://dev-null.sh` |
| `twitter`, `linkedin`, `github`, `facebook`, `instagram`, `ios_app`, `android_app` | product links when listed |
| `product_followers`, `launches_count`, `reviews_count`, `reviews_rating` | `727`, `1`, `1`, `5.0` |
| `categories`, `topics` | `["Social Networking"]`, `["Open Source", "Social Network"]` |
| `launch_name`, `launch_tagline`, `launch_url`, `launched_at` | launch details |
| `upvotes`, `comments_count` | `426`, `61` |
| `daily_rank`, `weekly_rank`, `monthly_rank` | `1`, `1`, `181` |
| `makers` | `[{"name": "nunomaduro", "headline": "Laravel Core Team Member", "twitter": "https://x.com/enunomaduro", "website": "https://nunomaduro.com", "followers": 2678, ...}]` |
| `maker_names`, `makers_count`, `hunter` | |
| `emails`, `phones`, `contact_socials` | with **Find contacts**: `["enunomaduro@gmail.com"]` |
| `source` | `daily:2026-10-20`, `search:crm`, `category:crm` or the URL |
| `product_id`, `launch_id`, `scraped_at` | |

### How to use it

| Mode | What it returns |
| ---- | --------------- |
| **Leaderboard** | Launches of every day, week, month or year in your date range, in rank order. Empty dates = yesterday. |
| **Search** | Products and launches matching your keywords. |
| **Category** | Products in Product Hunt categories (slug or URL, e.g. `crm`, `/categories/ai-agents`). |
| **URLs** | Specific products or launches (`/products/attio`, `/products/attio/launches/...`, `/posts/...`). |

Each product appears once per run, even if it matches several dates or keywords.

#### Input

| Field | Default | Description |
| ----- | ------- | ----------- |
| `mode` | `leaderboard` | leaderboard, search, category or urls |
| `period` | `daily` | daily, weekly, monthly or yearly leaderboard |
| `startDate`, `endDate` | yesterday | Date range (YYYY-MM-DD, up to 400 days) |
| `featuredOnly` | `true` | Only the launches the leaderboard shows |
| `searchQueries` / `categories` / `productUrls` | | Inputs for the other modes |
| `maxItems` | `100` | Maximum number of products |
| `minUpvotes` | | Skip launches below this many upvotes (not charged) |
| `findContacts` | `false` | Add emails and phones from the product's and makers' websites |

#### Example input: this week's top launches with contacts

```json
{
    "mode": "leaderboard",
    "period": "weekly",
    "startDate": "2026-10-19",
    "minUpvotes": 100,
    "findContacts": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}
```

#### Example output

```json
{
    "product_name": "/dev/null",
    "product_tagline": "a social network for devs",
    "product_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/dev-null",
    "website": "https://dev-null.sh",
    "github": "https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh",
    "product_followers": 727,
    "reviews_rating": 5.0,
    "launch_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dev-null",
    "launched_at": "2026-10-20T00:01:00-07:00",
    "upvotes": 426,
    "comments_count": 61,
    "daily_rank": 1,
    "weekly_rank": 1,
    "topics": ["Open Source", "Social Network", "Software Engineering"],
    "makers": [
        {
            "name": "nunomaduro",
            "username": "nunomaduro",
            "profile_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@nunomaduro",
            "headline": "Laravel Core Team Member",
            "followers": 2678,
            "twitter": "https://x.com/enunomaduro",
            "website": "https://nunomaduro.com",
            "linkedin": null
        }
    ],
    "maker_names": "nunomaduro, Brent, ...",
    "makers_count": 5,
    "emails": ["enunomaduro@gmail.com", "brendt@stitcher.io"],
    "phones": [],
    "source": "daily:2026-10-20"
}
```

### Contacts

With **Find contacts** on, the actor visits the product website and the makers' personal websites (home page plus up to
three contact or about pages each) and keeps emails on the site's own domain or a personal mailbox, plus phone numbers
from `tel:` links. Placeholder addresses from code samples (`you@example.com`) are dropped. In our tests about 4 in 10
products had a published email. You pay the contact event only for products where an email or phone was found.

### Scheduling and integrations

Run it every morning for yesterday's launches (leave the dates empty) and send the results to Google Sheets, HubSpot,
a webhook, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify integrations.

### Use it from AI agents (MCP)

AI assistants that support MCP can call this actor through Apify's MCP server (`https://mcp.apify.com`), for example
"list yesterday's top 10 Product Hunt launches with their makers' X accounts".

### FAQ

**Does it need a Product Hunt account or API key?** No.

**How far back can I go?** Leaderboards work for any past date; one run covers up to 400 days.

**Why are some makers missing?** Some launches list no makers, or makers hide their profiles; the hunter is still there.

**Are emails guaranteed?** No. The actor only returns what the product or maker publishes on their own websites.

**Is it legal?** The actor collects publicly visible information. Use contact data in line with the privacy and
anti-spam laws that apply to you (for example GDPR and CAN-SPAM).

**Something broke?** Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Leaderboard lists launches by date; search finds products by keyword; category lists the products in a Product Hunt category; URLs fetch specific products.

## `period` (type: `string`):

Leaderboard mode: which Product Hunt leaderboard to read for each date in the range.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Leaderboard mode: first date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = yesterday (Product Hunt days run on US Pacific time).

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Leaderboard mode: last date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = the start date. Up to 400 days per run.

## `featuredOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Leaderboard mode: only the launches Product Hunt features (what the leaderboard shows). Turn off to include all launches of the day.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Search mode: one Product Hunt search per keyword.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Category mode: category slugs or URLs, e.g. crm or https://www.producthunt.com/categories/ai-agents.

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

URLs mode: https://www.producthunt.com/products/<name>, /products/<name>/launches/<launch> or /posts/<launch>.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many unique products.

## `minUpvotes` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Skip launches with fewer upvotes (skipped products are not charged).

## `findContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Visit each product's website and the makers' personal websites (home page plus up to 3 contact/about pages) and add the emails and phone numbers published there. Charged as an extra event only for products where an email or phone is found.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Product Hunt challenges data-center IPs without a proxy, so Apify Proxy is used by default; the actor switches to residential proxies by itself if needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "leaderboard",
  "period": "daily",
  "featuredOnly": true,
  "searchQueries": [
    "crm"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "findContacts": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": 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 = {
    "mode": "leaderboard",
    "searchQueries": [
        "crm"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axlymxp/producthunt-scraper").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 = {
    "mode": "leaderboard",
    "searchQueries": ["crm"],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axlymxp/producthunt-scraper").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 '{
  "mode": "leaderboard",
  "searchQueries": [
    "crm"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call axlymxp/producthunt-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/fIeZQwqDvrsoqUhz8/builds/hMfbiP9zJ0H9GTuTP/openapi.json