Product Hunt Daily Scraper — Free, No API Key Required

Scrape daily Product Hunt launches including product names, taglines, vote counts, topics, and maker info. Get structured data about every product launched on any given day — no API key needed.

What It Does

This actor fetches Product Hunt's daily launches using their frontend GraphQL API. It returns structured data about products launched on a specific date, sorted by votes.

No API key, no OAuth, no rate limits. Just pick a date and get the launches.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
date	string	No	today	Date to scrape in YYYY-MM-DD format
maxProducts	integer	No	5	Maximum products to scrape (max 100)

Output Format

{
  "id": "456789",
  "name": "AI Code Reviewer",
  "tagline": "Automated code review powered by GPT-4",
  "slug": "ai-code-reviewer",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-code-reviewer",
  "website": "https://aireviewer.dev",
  "votesCount": 487,
  "commentsCount": 52,
  "topics": ["Developer Tools", "Artificial Intelligence"],
  "makers": ["Jane Smith"],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/...",
  "rank": 1,
  "date": "2026-03-28"
}

Use Cases

• Trend tracking — Monitor daily launches to spot emerging product categories
• Competitor intelligence — Get notified when competitors launch new products
• Startup research — Build a dataset of Product Hunt launches for analysis
• Content creation — Find interesting new tools to write about or review
• Investment research — Track which categories get the most traction on PH

How to Run via API

import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cryptosignals~producthunt-daily-scraper/runs",
    params={"token": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"},
    json={
        "date": "2026-03-28",
        "maxProducts": 20
    }
).json()

dataset_id = run["data"]["defaultDatasetId"]
products = requests.get(
    f"https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{dataset_id}/items"
).json()

for p in products:
    print(f"#{p.get('rank', '?')} {p['name']} — {p['tagline']} ({p['votesCount']} votes)")

Proxy Recommendation

Product Hunt is generally accessible from datacenter IPs. For scheduled daily scraping at scale, residential proxies provide more reliable access. We recommend ThorData for consistent results.

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