Product Hunt Scraper — Leaderboards, Topics, Categories & Products

Scrape Product Hunt four ways and get a clean, flat record for every launch: rank, votes, comments, tagline, description, website, topics, categories, reviews, followers and social links.

1. Leaderboards — daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, for any date range, optionally filtered by topic (e.g. only AI launches)
2. Topics — every product in a topic such as Artificial Intelligence or Developer Tools
3. Categories — every product in a category such as AI Agents
4. Products — specific products or launches by URL

• ✅ No login, no API key, no cookies
• ✅ Fast and light: ~150 launches in about 10 seconds, no browser
• ✅ Date ranges: scrape a full month of daily leaderboards in a single run
• ✅ Enriched out of the box: product website (tracking params removed), description, categories, reviews and social links are included in every result — no extra cost per detail page
• ✅ Pay only for results: you're charged per result returned, nothing else

What can you use it for?

• Startup & market research — track what launches every day in AI, dev tools, SaaS, productivity…
• Niche monitoring — follow one topic or category and get its newest products
• Lead generation — collect new products with their website, X/Twitter and LinkedIn pages
• Competitor monitoring — check specific products and how their launches performed
• Trend analysis — build datasets of votes and ranks over weeks, months or years
• Newsletters & content — feed "top AI launches of the week" digests automatically (schedule the actor daily or weekly)

Input

Field	Used in mode	Description	Default
mode	—	leaderboard, topic, category or products	leaderboard
leaderboard	leaderboard	daily, weekly (ISO weeks, Monday–Sunday), monthly or yearly	daily
startDate	leaderboard	First day, YYYY-MM-DD (Product Hunt days are US Pacific time)	yesterday
endDate	leaderboard	Last day (inclusive). Every day/week/month/year in between is scraped	same as startDate
featuredOnly	leaderboard	true = launches on the official leaderboard. false = all launches of the day, including non-featured (daily only; can be 500+ per day)	true
topicFilter	leaderboard	Keep only launches in these topics (names or slugs, e.g. Artificial Intelligence, developer-tools). You pay only for matches	all
topics	topic	Topic URLs or slugs, e.g. https://www.producthunt.com/topics/artificial-intelligence	—
categories	category	Category URLs or slugs, e.g. https://www.producthunt.com/categories/ai-agents	—
sortBy	topic, category	recent (newest launch first), popular (most followed) or top_rated	recent
productUrls	products	Product URLs (→ latest featured launch), launch URLs (→ that launch) or product slugs	—
maxItems	all	Maximum results to return in total	1000
proxyConfiguration	all	Optional. The default (automatic Apify Proxy with residential fallback) handles blocks for you	automatic

Examples

Yesterday's leaderboard (just run it with empty input):

{}

All daily leaderboards of September 2026:

{ "leaderboard": "daily", "startDate": "2026-09-01", "endDate": "2026-09-30" }

Only AI and developer-tools launches of a day, including non-featured ones:

{ "leaderboard": "daily", "startDate": "2026-09-24", "featuredOnly": false, "topicFilter": ["Artificial Intelligence", "developer-tools"] }

Top 100 launches of 2025:

{ "leaderboard": "yearly", "startDate": "2025-01-01", "maxItems": 100 }

The 200 most recently launched AI products:

{ "mode": "topic", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "sortBy": "recent", "maxItems": 200 }

Highest-rated products in the AI Agents category:

{ "mode": "category", "categories": ["https://www.producthunt.com/categories/ai-agents"], "sortBy": "top_rated" }

Specific products:

{ "mode": "products", "productUrls": ["https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion", "figma", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/clueso/launches/clueso-mcp-2"] }

Output

One record per launch (in topic, category and product modes: one record per product, with its latest featured launch). source tells you where each result came from, and rank is the leaderboard rank or the position in the topic/category list. Example:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "source": "leaderboard:daily",
  "leaderboard": "daily",
  "period": "2026-09-22",
  "name": "Clueso MCP",
  "productName": "Clueso",
  "tagline": "Create and edit videos by chatting",
  "description": "Clueso is the fastest and easiest way to create stunning product videos...",
  "votes": 544,
  "comments": 161,
  "launchedAt": "2026-09-22T00:01:00-07:00",
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": 1,
  "monthlyRank": 6,
  "yearlyRank": null,
  "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Animation", "Video"],
  "categories": ["Screenshots and screen recording apps", "Video editing", "Product demo"],
  "websiteUrl": "https://clueso.io/",
  "websiteDomain": "clueso.io",
  "launchUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/clueso/launches/clueso-mcp-2",
  "productUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/clueso",
  "reviewsRating": 4.88,
  "reviewsCount": 24,
  "followers": 3159,
  "totalLaunches": 2,
  "twitterUrl": "https://x.com/clueso",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/clueso/",
  "githubUrl": null,
  "iosUrl": null,
  "androidUrl": null,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/5fb08d1c-01a1-43a5-a993-958aec64788b.png",
  "logoUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/5db96420-68ff-4d26-81ce-0635d1637bf9.png",
  "postId": "1252189",
  "productId": "737461",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-26T16:33:48.240Z"
}

Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull them via the Apify API.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay only for results returned (launches or products). A typical day is 15–70 featured launches, so scraping one day costs a few cents. With topicFilter you only pay for the launches that match. You can cap spending with maxItems or the run's maximum charge.

FAQ

Does it need a Product Hunt account or API token? No. It only reads public data.

How do I find a topic or category slug? Open the topic or category on Product Hunt and copy the URL (e.g. https://www.producthunt.com/topics/developer-tools). You can paste the full URL or just the last part.

Why is the launch name different from the product name? A product (e.g. Figma) can launch many times (Figma Motion, Figma MCP…). productName is the product, name is the launch.

Why do some days have fewer launches than others? Product Hunt features a different number of launches each day. The actor returns exactly what the official leaderboard shows (use featuredOnly: false to get every launch).

Can I get maker emails? No. This actor returns public product data only; it doesn't collect personal contact information.

What timezone are dates in? Product Hunt days start at 00:00 US Pacific time, and startDate/endDate follow that convention.

Can I use it from an AI agent? Yes. The input is simple and fully described, so it works well through the Apify MCP server or API.

Something broke? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab. The actor is tested daily against live data.