Product Hunt Scraper — Daily Launches & Trending Products

Extract launches from Product Hunt — upvotes, comments, taglines, and trending scores. Scrape today's products, search by keyword, or browse by topic.

Built for startup analysts, VCs, market researchers, competitor-tracking tools, and growth/marketing teams.

What you get

• Launch data — product name, tagline, description, upvotes, comment count, topics, maker info, launch date, product URL
• 4 scrape modes — trending, daily, search, topic
• Engagement metrics — upvotes + comments for traction signals
• Topic browsing — filter by category (AI, SaaS, DevTools, etc.)
• Pre-built dataset Overview in Apify Console for instant inspection

Why this scraper (vs. alternatives)

	Build your own	Generic scraper	This actor
Maintenance	You patch every site change	Often broken	Patched on every update
4 scrape modes	Manual	Limited	Built-in
Engagement metrics	Manual	Partial	Upvotes + comments
Topic filtering	Manual	No	Native

Input

Field	Type	Description
scrapeMode	enum	trending, daily (default), search, topic
searchQuery	string	Search keyword (for search mode)
topic	string	Topic slug (for topic mode, e.g., artificial-intelligence)
date	string	Specific date YYYY-MM-DD (for daily mode)
maxResults	int	Maximum products to return (default 10)

Example Input

{
  "scrapeMode": "daily",
  "date": "2026-05-28",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Output (sample)

{
  "name": "Acme AI Copilot",
  "tagline": "Your AI pair-programmer for data pipelines",
  "description": "Acme AI Copilot helps data engineers build...",
  "upvotes": 842,
  "comment_count": 67,
  "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Developer Tools", "SaaS"],
  "maker_names": ["Jane Doe", "John Smith"],
  "launch_date": "2026-05-28",
  "rank": 1,
  "product_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acme-ai-copilot",
  "website_url": "https://acme-ai.com",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-28T14:00:00+00:00"
}

Use cases

• Startup / VC research — spot trending products + emerging categories early
• Competitor tracking — monitor launches in your space and their traction
• Market research — analyze what's gaining upvotes by topic over time
• Growth / marketing — study high-performing taglines + positioning
• Trend analysis — track which categories are heating up
• Lead generation — find newly-launched startups as prospects

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event:

• $0.002 per product
• $0.00005 actor-start fee

Example runs

Use case	Products	Cost
Today's top launches	50	$0.10
Weekly trending sweep	350	$0.70
Topic-research dataset	1,000	$2.00

Tips

• Use scrapeMode: "daily" + date to backfill historical launch data
• Use scrapeMode: "topic" to focus on your category (e.g., AI, SaaS)
• Upvotes + comment_count are the key traction signals — sort on them downstream
• Schedule a daily run to build your own Product Hunt launch history

FAQ

Q: Can I get historical launches?
A: Yes — use scrapeMode: "daily" with a past date.

Q: What's the difference between trending and daily?
A: daily = products launched on a specific date; trending = currently rising products.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Real-time. Each run fetches the current state of Product Hunt.

Q: Can I filter by category?
A: Yes — use scrapeMode: "topic" with a topic slug.

Related actors

• hacker-news-intelligence — tech news, jobs, Show HN launches
• github-repository-intelligence — repo metrics
• tech-stack-detector — website tech stacks

Legal & compliance

This scraper only retrieves publicly accessible launch data. You are responsible for:

• Respecting Product Hunt's Terms of Service
• Honoring robots.txt directives
• Not republishing scraped data in ways that infringe IP rights

Support & feature requests

Open an issue on the Actor page or contact via Apify Console messaging. Custom features welcome.