Product Hunt Scraper (Apify Actor)

A fast, lightweight, and cost-efficient Apify Actor for scraping Product Hunt. It extracts daily launches, past leaderboards, trending products, maker profiles, screenshot galleries, and external website links with zero browser overhead.

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🚀 Features

• Today's Featured Launches: Scrapes currently trending and featured tech products directly from the Product Hunt homepage.
• Daily Leaderboard: Scrapes top ranked products for any given date (YYYY-MM-DD).
• Custom Post URLs: Scrape specific Product Hunt post pages or collections.
• Deep Extraction:
  • Product Name, Tagline, Full Description
  • Daily & Weekly Rankings
  • Vote / Score count & Comment count
  • Product Hunt URL & Direct external website URL
  • Pricing category (Free, Paid, Free Options)
  • Topics & Tag categories
  • Makers & Hunters (Name, username, headline, avatar)
  • Media screenshots and demo videos
• High Performance & Low Compute Cost: Built with Crawlee & Cheerio to parse server-side streaming payloads without memory-heavy headless browsers.

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⚙️ Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	String	"today"	Scrape mode: "today", "leaderboard", or "urls".
date	String	""	Date for leaderboard in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. 2026-09-18). Defaults to yesterday if blank.
startUrls	Array	[]	List of custom Product Hunt URLs (used when mode is "urls").
scrapeDetails	Boolean	true	When true, fetches individual post pages for deep fields (website, makers, high-res screenshots).
maxItems	Integer	30	Maximum number of products to extract and save.
proxyConfiguration	Object	undefined	Apify Proxy configuration (residential or datacenter proxies).

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📦 Sample Output

{
  "id": "1252832",
  "name": "Bolt Forge",
  "slug": "bolt-forge-2",
  "tagline": "Bolt's new agent with open-source models and 50X usage",
  "description": "Bolt Forge is a new agent inside Bolt.new that runs on open-source models. Every Pro plan gets up to 50X more usage with no daily caps.",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bolt-forge-2",
  "websiteUrl": "https://bolt.new",
  "pricingType": "Free Options",
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": null,
  "votesCount": 420,
  "commentsCount": 45,
  "featuredAt": "2026-09-19T00:01:00-07:00",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-19T00:01:00-07:00",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/140d2f3b-6da7-4454-8631-f619f00bc6d6.vnd.microsoft.icon?auto=format&fit=crop",
  "topics": [
    "Developer Tools",
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Vibe coding"
  ],
  "makers": [
    {
      "id": "123",
      "name": "Alex Creator",
      "username": "alexcreator",
      "headline": "Building developer tools",
      "avatarUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/avatar.jpeg?auto=format&fit=crop"
    }
  ],
  "hunter": {
    "name": "Sarah Hunter",
    "username": "sarah"
  },
  "media": [
    {
      "id": "3538114",
      "type": "video",
      "imageUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/db512423-8abc-4b5e-95a4-e4e9d763bced.jpeg?auto=format&fit=crop",
      "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpod8k46LLc",
      "platform": "youtube"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-19T08:00:00.000Z"
}

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🛠️ Local Development & Testing

# 1. Install dependencies
npm install

# 2. Run locally
apify run
# or
npm start

🚀 Deploy to Apify

$apify push