Product Hunt Scraper: launches, leaderboards, upvotes and makers

Product Hunt Scraper exports Product Hunt launches as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: name, tagline, live upvote count, Product of the Day rank, topics, website, hunter and makers, plus descriptions, media and comments when you add a free Product Hunt API token. Use it to track new launches every day, pull a topic's newest products, or export past daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards.

• ✅ Works without an API key. Current launches and topic feeds, with live upvote counts and top-5 daily ranks, need no login or token.
• ✅ Historical leaderboards by day, week or month for any date range, with every launch's rank. Needs a free Product Hunt developer token.
• ✅ Topics / categories: AI, developer tools, productivity, SaaS, marketing and more.
• ✅ Specific launches by URL, with makers, topics, media and the top comments.
• ✅ Keyword filter: keep only launches that mention "CRM", "agents" or any other words. Filtered-out launches are free.
• ✅ Pay per launch: $1 per 1,000 launches. No monthly rental.
• ✅ Fast and light: plain HTTP, no browser, no proxy. The default run finishes in a few seconds.

Start in one minute

Click Start with the prefilled input:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

You get: Product Hunt's 20 current featured launches (the prefilled topic is for Topics mode), with name, tagline, votesCount, dailyRank, topics and website.

Cost: $0.02: 20 launches × $0.001.

Use with an AI assistant

Connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client (https://mcp.apify.com?tools=cprussin/product-hunt-launches loads only this actor), then paste:

Use the Apify actor cprussin/product-hunt-launches in topics mode to get today's developer-tools launches that mention "agent", and rank them by upvotes.

Recipes

AI launches that mention a keyword

Current AI and developer-tool launches mentioning "agent", no token needed.

{
  "mode": "topics",
  "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools"],
  "searchKeywords": "agent",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Today's leaderboard

Current launches sorted by live upvotes, no token needed.

{
  "mode": "leaderboard",
  "period": "daily",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Top 10 of each day last week

Past daily leaderboards, fully ranked. Needs a free Product Hunt developer token.

{
  "mode": "leaderboard",
  "period": "daily",
  "startDate": "7 days",
  "maxPerGroup": 10,
  "maxItems": 70,
  "apiToken": "YOUR_TOKEN"
}

New-launch alerts

Schedule it hourly or daily: after the first run you get (and pay for) only launches not returned before.

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNew": true
}

What can you do with Product Hunt launch data?

• Market research and trend spotting: see what launches every day in your category and which products win Product of the Day.
• Lead generation: build lists of newly launched startups, their websites and makers for sales, partnerships or agency outreach.
• Investors and scouts: screen new products by upvotes, rank and topic; export a month's leaderboard for deal flow.
• Competitor monitoring: schedule a daily run with keywords and get new competitors in Slack, Sheets or your CRM.
• Content and newsletters: "top launches of the week" posts, roundups and datasets for AI agents.

How does the Product Hunt scraper work?

Product Hunt protects www.producthunt.com with a Cloudflare browser challenge, which blocks most scrapers on datacenter IPs. This actor uses three sources that are open to automated access:

1. No token (default): Product Hunt's public Atom feed of current featured launches (overall or per topic), plus Product Hunt's public embed badges for each launch's live upvote count and top-5 daily / weekly / monthly rank.
2. With a free API token: the official Product Hunt API v2 for historical leaderboards, specific URLs, descriptions, topics, media, makers and comments. It pages through results, waits out Product Hunt's rate limit, and removes duplicates.
3. Website URLs: each launch's Product Hunt redirect link is followed to get the product's real website (best effort; see Limitations).

Get a free Product Hunt API token (2 minutes)

1. Log in to Product Hunt and open API dashboard → Applications.
2. Click Add an application. Any name works; use https://localhost as the redirect URI.
3. Click Create Token under "Developer Token" and paste the token into Product Hunt API token. It is stored as a secret input.

What does each Product Hunt scraping mode return?

Mode	Token?	Returns
Latest launches (default)	No	Product Hunt's current featured launches (about 50), live upvotes, top-5 ranks
Topics	No	Current launches in each topic (about 50 per topic)
	Optional	With a token: every launch in the topic, newest first, optionally within a date range
Leaderboard (daily/weekly/month)	Optional	Without a token: current launches sorted by live upvotes. With a token: any past date range, fully ranked
Specific launch URLs	Yes	The full record for each URL

How do I choose which Product Hunt launches to scrape?

Field	Description	Example
mode	latest, topics, leaderboard or posts	"leaderboard"
topics	Topic slugs or URLs (Topics mode)	["artificial-intelligence"]
period	daily, weekly (Monday–Sunday) or monthly, in Pacific Time like Product Hunt	"daily"
startDate, endDate	Date range: YYYY-MM-DD, today, yesterday or 7 days. Default: yesterday	"2026-09-01"
postUrls	Launch URLs, slugs or IDs (Posts mode)	["https://www.producthunt.com/posts/notion-ai"]
searchKeywords	Keep launches mentioning any of these words (name, tagline, description, topics)	"crm, sales"
maxItems	Max launches in total	20
maxPerGroup	Max launches per day/week/month or per topic, e.g. the top 10 of each day	10
onlyNew	Monitoring: only launches not returned by an earlier run with the same input	true
apiToken	Optional Product Hunt developer token	"..."
includeMakers	Add makers (token)	true
includeComments	Add the most upvoted comments (token)	false
maxCommentsPerLaunch	Comments per launch	20
resolveWebsites	Resolve Product Hunt redirect links to real websites	true

What data do you get for each Product Hunt launch?

One dataset item per launch:

{
  "id": "1252633",
  "name": "Acme Agents",
  "tagline": "AI agents that file your expense reports",
  "description": "Acme connects to your inbox and card feed...",
  "slug": "acme-agents",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acme-agents",
  "website": "https://acme.example/",
  "websiteRedirectUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/r/ABCDEF",
  "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Fintech"],
  "votesCount": 293,
  "commentsCount": 41,
  "reviewsCount": 3,
  "reviewsRating": 5,
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": null,
  "monthlyRank": null,
  "launchDate": "2026-09-17",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-16T18:44:42Z",
  "featuredAt": "2026-09-17T07:01:00Z",
  "featured": true,
  "thumbnail": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/....png",
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "image",
      "url": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/....png",
      "videoUrl": null
    }
  ],
  "hunter": {
    "id": "123",
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "username": "janedoe",
    "headline": "Founder at Acme",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@janedoe",
    "twitterUsername": null,
    "websiteUrl": null,
    "avatarUrl": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/..."
  },
  "makers": [],
  "pricingType": null,
  "productLinks": [
    { "type": "website", "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/r/ABCDEF" }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "body": "Congrats on the launch!",
      "createdAt": "2026-09-17T08:00:00Z",
      "votesCount": 12,
      "parentId": null,
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acme-agents#comment-c1",
      "author": null
    }
  ],
  "source": "api",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T18:00:00.000Z"
}

(Illustrative record.)

Field notes

• source is feed (no token) or api (token). Without a token, description, slug, commentsCount, launchDate, featuredAt, thumbnail, media and makers are null/empty, topics holds the topic you asked for, and hunter has only a name.
• votesCount without a token is read live from Product Hunt's public badge for the launch.
• dailyRank, weeklyRank, monthlyRank: in leaderboard mode with a token, the launch's position in Product Hunt's ranking order for that period. Without a token, only top-5 "Product of the Day/Week/Month" ranks are known; others are null.
• launchDate is the Pacific-Time day the launch was featured (or created, if never featured).
• makers, hunter and comment author: Product Hunt hides names and usernames of most users from third-party API apps. Hidden fields are null, and fully hidden people are left out.
• pricingType is not exposed by the API or the feed and is always null for now.
• The dataset's Overview view shows the main columns. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or use the Apify API.

How much does it cost to scrape Product Hunt?

Pay per event:

Event	Price	When
launch	$0.001 ($1.00 / 1,000)	Each launch saved to the dataset
comment	$0.0003 ($0.30 / 1,000)	Each comment included (only with Include comments on)

• The default run (20 launches) costs $0.02.
• Apify's standard small actor-start fee applies. The actor stops cleanly at your run's maximum charge, and you are never billed for launches it didn't save. Launches removed by keyword filters or as duplicates are free.

How do I monitor Product Hunt for new items?

Turn on onlyNew and run the actor on an Apify schedule (e.g. daily or hourly; save the input as a task and schedule the task).

• The first run is a baseline and returns launches as usual. Later runs return, and charge for, only launches (by id) not returned before. Skipped launches are never charged, and their comments and websites are not fetched.
• Best fits: mode latest or topics, optionally with searchKeywords for competitor alerts. With a token, newest-first scans stop after 3 known launches in a row.
• State lives in your account in the key-value store product-hunt-launches-state, one record per combination of mode, period, topics, posts, keywords and featured filter (not dates). Changing any of these starts a new baseline. It remembers the latest 50,000 launches.
• Add a Slack, email or webhook integration to the task to get alerts.

Product Hunt scraper FAQ

Do I need a Product Hunt account? No, for current launches and topics. For historical leaderboards, specific URLs and comments you need a free developer token (steps above).

Why not scrape the website directly? www.producthunt.com shows a Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge to most automated traffic, including headless browsers on cloud IPs. The public feed, badges and official API are stable and fast, so runs don't break when the site changes.

How many launches can I get? Without a token, about 50 current launches per feed (overall or per topic). With a token, as many as the date range holds, up to 10,000 per run. Product Hunt's API has a rate limit; big runs pause until it resets.

Is it legal to scrape Product Hunt? The actor reads public data and Product Hunt's official API. Personal data (names of makers and commenters) may be covered by laws such as GDPR, and Product Hunt's API terms apply to your token. You are responsible for lawful use.

Can I use it with the API, Make, Zapier or an AI agent? Yes, like any Apify actor: Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, or the Apify MCP server.

What are the limits of scraping Product Hunt?

• No emails. Makers' emails aren't public and aren't returned.
• Without a token the actor sees only Product Hunt's current launches (the feed), not past days, and no descriptions, comments or makers.
• website is best effort: Product Hunt's redirect links sit behind the same Cloudflare check. If the check blocks the actor, website is null and websiteRedirectUrl still opens the site in a browser.
• Leaderboard ranks from the API follow Product Hunt's API ranking order, which can differ slightly from the website for launches with equal scores.
• Product Hunt can change its feed, badges or API at any time. The actor is tested daily; report problems on the Issues tab.

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