Product Hunt Launches Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Product Hunt publishes a free RSS feed at producthunt.com/feed covering each day's launches. This Actor wraps it and writes one row per launch with name, tagline, link, and posted-at timestamp. Run daily to feed a launch dashboard or a curated newsletter.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Trend monitoring — daily diff to spot which categories are trending.
• Investor scouting — pipe new B2B launches into your CRM.
• Marketing intel — track competitor launches.
• Newsletter — top 10 launches from yesterday, formatted to Markdown.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
feedUrl	string	no	'https://www.producthunt.com/feed'	Default points at the global launches feed. Topic / collection RSS URLs from Product Hunt also work.
maxResults	integer	no	20	Cap on launches returned. RSS exposes the most recent ~20-50.
includeContent	boolean	no	True	Include the HTML body (taglines / description).
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True}	Product Hunt occasionally throttles direct cloud IPs. Apify Proxy helps.

Example input

{
  "feedUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/feed",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "includeContent": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
feed_url	string	Source RSS URL.
title	string	Launch title (usually Name — Tagline).
name	['string', 'null']	Parsed product name (before the —).
tagline	['string', 'null']	Parsed tagline (after the —).
link	string	Product Hunt URL of the launch.
author	['string', 'null']	Maker name (from dc:creator).
content_html	['string', 'null']	Full HTML body when includeContent=true.
categories	array	Tags / categories the launch is in.
published	['string', 'null']	Posted-at timestamp (ISO-8601).
scraped_at	string	When this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "feed_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/feed",
  "title": "Devil Scrapes \u2014 Honest pay-per-event Apify Actors",
  "name": "Devil Scrapes",
  "tagline": "Honest pay-per-event Apify Actors",
  "link": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/devil-scrapes",
  "published": "2026-05-15T08:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.005	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.002	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $2.00. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

RSS exposes a limited window (typically 1-2 days of launches). Votes, comment counts, and Maker / Hunter detail are not in RSS — for those use the Product Hunt GraphQL API.

❓ FAQ

Why no vote count?

Vote counts live on the rendered HTML, not in RSS. For votes, use the Product Hunt GraphQL API (paid Actor planned).

Topic-specific feeds?

Yes — pass any Product Hunt feed URL (e.g. producthunt.com/topics/<slug>/feed).

Why is name sometimes empty?

Some titles don't include the — separator. We surface the raw title verbatim in those cases.

Need authenticated data?

Use the official Product Hunt API for makers / hunter info.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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