Product Hunt Scraper — Launches, Makers & Emails

Product Hunt Scraper: startup leads, founders and emails from every launch

Product Hunt Scraper turns Product Hunt into a clean, ready-to-use lead and market-intelligence database. Every day 40–60 new startups are featured there (and hundreds more launch without being featured), each one listing its website, founders and team. This Actor collects all of it for you:

• 🏢 The company: name, tagline, description, website, pricing, categories, rating, followers, Y Combinator alumni flag
• 👥 The people: every maker (founders and team) with their headline, plus their X/Twitter, LinkedIn and personal site if you want them
• 📧 The contacts: public emails from the company's own website, plus its X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook pages
• 📈 The traction: votes, comments, daily/weekly/monthly rank, badges, launch history

Export as CSV, Excel or JSON, send it to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Make, Zapier or n8n, or call it from the API. No Product Hunt API key, no login, no browser.

Try it now: leave everything as it is and click Start. You get yesterday's top launches in a few seconds.

Real results from a run searching "email marketing": 20 companies in 12 seconds, shown in the Leads & contacts view.

🆕 What's new (October 17, 2026)

A big reliability and quality update, built from real customer runs:

• ✅ Full details on every launch again. Product Hunt changed its website and launch details (website, makers, emails) stopped loading. That's fixed, and the scraper now repairs itself automatically if Product Hunt changes again.
• ⚡ About 8× faster. A typical run now finishes in 7–15 seconds.
• 🎯 New "Auto" mode. Search "crm" or paste a product URL and you get exactly that, not yesterday's leaderboard on top. With an empty form you still get yesterday's best launches.
• 💸 You never pay for incomplete data. If a launch's details can't be loaded, it's still saved, but free of charge.
• 🧹 Cleaner emails. Only the company's own addresses are kept. Demo addresses shown in product screenshots (jenny@acme.com) and quoted customers are filtered out, so you're never charged for junk.

Who uses it

You are…	You use it to…
🎯 Sales & SDR teams, agencies	Build fresh B2B lead lists every day: brand-new startups with founders, websites and emails, before your competitors reach them
💰 VCs, angels & scouts	Spot traction early: daily/weekly/monthly winners, votes, YC alumni, launch history
🔍 Founders & product marketers	Map every competitor in your category: who launched, how they position, how the market reacted
📰 Newsletters & media	Auto-generate "Top launches of the week" with a schedule
🤖 AI agents & automations	Feed fresh startup data into your workflows via API or MCP

How it works

1. Pick what to scrape. Choose any mix of sources:
   • Leaderboards: daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, for any date or date range
   • Search terms: crm, email marketing, ai video editor…
   • Topics & categories: developer-tools, ai-agents, saas…
   • Product Hunt URLs: paste any launch, product, topic, category, search or leaderboard link. The type is detected automatically.
2. The Actor reads Product Hunt's own data feed, the same structured data the website uses. You get exact numbers (votes, ranks, dates) instead of guesses scraped from the page layout. It's fast, light, and needs no browser.
3. It enriches each launch. It loads the full launch page (description, makers, hunter, socials, ratings). If you want, it also opens each maker's profile (X, LinkedIn, website) and visits the company's website (home, /contact, /about) to collect public emails.
4. You get one clean row per launch, saved in the order shown on Product Hunt, ready to export or sync.

💡 Automate it: save your input as a Task with From date = yesterday and add a daily Schedule. You'll get every new launch each morning, delivered to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM.

Ready-made inputs

1. Daily lead list: every launch of the day with founders and emails

{
    "leaderboard": "daily",
    "dateFrom": "yesterday",
    "includeAllLaunches": true,
    "includeMakerProfiles": true,
    "findContacts": true
}

2. Competitor research: every product in a niche

{
    "searchQueries": ["email marketing"],
    "categories": ["email-marketing"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "findContacts": true
}

3. Investor scan: the best launches of each month this year

{
    "leaderboard": "monthly",
    "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-09-30"
}

Example result

A real row from a search for email marketing (shortened: Mailmodo lists 13 makers, 3 are shown):

{
    "name": "Mailmodo AI",
    "tagline": "Complete email marketing with just prompts",
    "website": "https://mailmodo.com",
    "launchUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mailmodo-ai",
    "launchDate": "2025-10-14",
    "votes": 467,
    "commentsCount": 72,
    "dailyRank": 2,
    "weeklyRank": 8,
    "monthlyRank": 33,
    "productCategories": ["Email marketing", "Marketing automation platforms"],
    "productRating": 4.83,
    "productFollowers": 1899,
    "productLaunchesCount": 13,
    "wasInYCombinator": true,
    "makers": [
        { "name": "Aquibur Rahman", "headline": "Cofounder & CEO, Mailmodo.com", "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@aquib" },
        { "name": "Apurv Gupta", "headline": "Building Mailmodo, ⚡ing email marketing.", "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@apurv_gpt" },
        { "name": "Devyesh Tandon", "headline": "Cofounder at Mailmodo", "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@devyesh" }
    ],
    "hunter": { "name": "Aquibur Rahman", "username": "aquib" },
    "emails": ["enquiries@mailmodo.com", "support@mailmodo.com"],
    "websiteSocials": {
        "twitter": "https://twitter.com/mailmodo",
        "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mailmodo",
        "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/mailmodohq",
        "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/@mailmodo"
    },
    "source": "search \"email marketing\""
}

That run returned 20 email-marketing companies in 12 seconds, and 11 of the 20 came with at least one company email.

The Output tab has three ready-made views (Launches, Leads & contacts, Product details), and you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS.

Input options

Field	What it does
Leaderboard	Auto (default: daily, unless you add searches/URLs/topics), Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, or None
From date / To date	A single day or a range, e.g. 2026-01-01 → 2026-01-31. Also accepts yesterday, today, 7 days ago. Days are in Pacific time, like on Product Hunt.
Product Hunt URLs	Any leaderboard, launch (/posts/…), product (/products/…), topic, category or search URL
Topics / Categories / Search terms	e.g. developer-tools, ai-agents, crm
Max launches	Stop after N launches
Include non-featured launches	Every launch of the day, not only featured ones: often 3–5× more companies for lead lists
Launch details, makers & hunter	On by default
Maker contact profiles	Adds X/Twitter, LinkedIn, website, followers and bio for each maker
Find emails on product websites	Collects public emails and social links from the company's site
Launch comments	Comment text, author and votes

All data fields

Group	Fields
Launch	name, tagline, description, launchUrl, launchDate, featuredAt, isFeatured, votes, launchDayVotes, commentsCount, dailyRank, weeklyRank, monthlyRank, badges, launchNumber, pricing, topics, thumbnailUrl, media
People	makers (name, username, headline, profileUrl + optional X, LinkedIn, website, followers, bio), makerNames, makerProfileUrls, hunter
Company	productUrl, website, websiteDomain, productRating, productReviewsCount, productFollowers, productLaunchesCount, productCategories, firstLaunchedAt, isTopProduct, wasInYCombinator, goldenKittyAwards
Socials	twitterUrl, linkedinUrl, facebookUrl, instagramUrl, githubUrl, iosAppUrl, androidAppUrl, websiteSocials
Optional	emails, comments

Pricing: pay only for what you get

Event	Price
Launch (company, makers, hunter & details)	$0.0012 per launch, i.e. $1.20 per 1,000
Maker contact profile (optional)	$0.0004 per maker
Website emails (optional)	$0.0015 per launch, only when at least one email is found
Run start (from October 31, 2026)	$0.005 per run
Launch whose details couldn't be loaded	Free

Real examples:

• Yesterday's daily leaderboard (~45 launches): about $0.06
• 20 companies in a niche, with emails: about $0.05
• A whole month of daily leaderboards (~1,400 launches): about $1.70

Higher Apify plans get lower per-launch prices automatically. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, so you can test it for free. Cap any run with Max launches or Max cost per run: the scraper stops cleanly at your limit.

Tips

• Biggest lead lists: turn on Include non-featured launches + Find emails on product websites.
• Cheapest overview: turn off Launch details for a leaderboard-only list (name, votes, rank, topics).
• Older launches work too: founders come from the product's team page, so launches from years ago still include their makers.
• Monitoring: schedule a task with yesterday and connect Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook.

FAQ

Do I need a Product Hunt API key? No. The scraper reads the same public data the website shows. No account or token is needed.

Why do some launches have no email? Emails are only taken from the company's own website, and only addresses on the company's own domain are kept. Some companies don't publish one, and then you aren't charged the email fee.

Why do some makers have no X/LinkedIn? Those links come from each maker's Product Hunt profile. If a maker hasn't added them, there's nothing to collect.

Can I get every launch of a day, not only the featured ones? Yes. Turn on Include non-featured launches.

Is scraping Product Hunt legal? This Actor only collects publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it: names and emails are personal data protected by laws like GDPR, so make sure you have a legitimate reason to process them. If unsure, consult a lawyer. More in Apify's post on the legality of web scraping.

Something not working, or need a field? Open an issue in the Issues tab. Issues get answered fast, and the October 17 update came directly from real runs. Custom data pipelines are available on request too.