# Product Hunt Launches Tracker (`gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker`) Actor

Track Product Hunt daily launches and trending products. Filter by category, date, or minimum votes. Returns product name, tagline, vote count, comment count, maker info, launch date, website, and direct Product Hunt link. No API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Hojun Lee](https://apify.com/gochujang) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 item trackeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

### What does Product Hunt Launches Tracker do?

**Product Hunt Launches Tracker** scrapes the Product Hunt daily leaderboard and returns structured data on every **product launch** — including name, tagline, vote count, comment count, maker details, topics, and direct links — for any day up to 30 days in the past. It extracts data directly from the **Next.js `__NEXT_DATA__` JSON** embedded in every server-rendered page, making it fast, reliable, and immune to UI redesigns that break CSS-selector scrapers. No API key or authentication required.

### Why use Product Hunt Launches Tracker?

- **Competitive intelligence on demand** — monitor which products launch in your niche every day and filter by minimum votes to see only the launches that resonated with the community, without manually browsing the leaderboard.
- **Historical launch archive** — retrieve leaderboard data for any of the past 30 days in one call, enabling trend analysis, weekend vs weekday comparison, or retroactive research on a competitor's launch day.
- **Pay-per-product pricing** — at **$0.002 per product**, you pay only for the records you actually fetch. A 20-product filtered run costs $0.04; a full 200-product archive costs $0.40.
- **Structured data, ready for pipelines** — every record includes `votes`, `comments`, `daily_rank`, `topics`, `maker_names`, `website`, and timestamps as clean JSON fields, so results plug directly into Airtable, BigQuery, Notion, or a webhook without parsing.
- **Vote threshold filtering** — set `minVotes` to skip low-signal launches and surface only products that hit a meaningful upvote threshold, reducing noise in downstream analysis or alert systems.

### How to use Product Hunt Launches Tracker

1. Go to the [Apify Store](https://apify.com/store) and open **Product Hunt Launches Tracker**.
2. Click **Try for free** and open the **Input** tab.
3. Set `daysAgo` to `0` for today's launches, or `1`–`30` for historical days.
4. Set `maxResults` (default 50) and optionally `minVotes` to filter low-vote products.
5. Click **Start**. The actor fetches and parses the leaderboard page in seconds.
6. Download the dataset as JSON or CSV, or connect an **Integration** webhook to push results to Slack, Airtable, or your app.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `daysAgo` | integer | `0` | Days back from today: `0` = today, `1` = yesterday, max `30` |
| `maxResults` | integer | `50` | Maximum number of products to return (1–200) |
| `minVotes` | integer | `0` | Only return products with at least this many upvotes |

### Output

```json
[
  {
    "id": "582741",
    "name": "Notion AI Writer",
    "tagline": "Write anything 10x faster with your second brain",
    "slug": "notion-ai-writer",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/notion-ai-writer",
    "website": "https://notion.so/product/ai",
    "votes": 1284,
    "comments": 147,
    "daily_rank": 1,
    "topics": ["Productivity", "Artificial Intelligence", "Writing"],
    "maker_names": ["Ivan Zhao", "Akshay Kothari"],
    "featured_date": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
    "created_at": "2026-09-02T07:00:00Z",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-02T14:22:10Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "582803",
    "name": "ScreenStudio 3.0",
    "tagline": "Beautiful screen recordings for developers",
    "slug": "screenstudio-3-0",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/screenstudio-3-0",
    "website": "https://screenstudio.lemonsqueezy.com",
    "votes": 847,
    "comments": 93,
    "daily_rank": 2,
    "topics": ["Developer Tools", "Design", "Video"],
    "maker_names": ["Paul Melnikow"],
    "featured_date": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
    "created_at": "2026-09-02T07:00:00Z",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-02T14:22:10Z"
  }
]
```

### Data fields

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `id` | Product Hunt internal product ID |
| `name` | Product name as listed on Product Hunt |
| `tagline` | Short product description (the launch tagline) |
| `slug` | URL slug used in the Product Hunt post URL |
| `url` | Direct link to the Product Hunt post page |
| `website` | Product's external website URL |
| `votes` | Upvote count at time of fetch (point-in-time snapshot) |
| `comments` | Comment count at time of fetch |
| `daily_rank` | Leaderboard position for the given day (1 = top product) |
| `topics` | Array of topic/category tags assigned to the product |
| `maker_names` | Array of maker display names listed on the post |
| `featured_date` | UTC date when the product was featured on the leaderboard |
| `created_at` | UTC timestamp when the product was submitted to Product Hunt |
| `fetched_at` | UTC timestamp when the actor fetched this record |

### Cost estimation

| Scenario | Products fetched | Cost |
|----------|-----------------|------|
| Top 10 launches today | ~10 products | **$0.02** |
| Full daily leaderboard (50 products) | ~50 products | **$0.10** |
| 7-day archive (50 products/day) | ~350 products | **$0.70** |

Pricing is **$0.002 per product** fetched (Pay-Per-Event). The `minVotes` filter reduces the number of billed events — only products that pass the filter and are saved to the dataset are charged.

### FAQ

**How current is the data for today's launches?**
Product Hunt rankings shift throughout the day as votes accumulate. Data is a point-in-time snapshot taken when the actor runs. For final daily rankings, run the actor after midnight UTC, when voting for that day has closed and the leaderboard position is locked.

**Why does the actor sometimes return fewer products than `maxResults`?**
Product Hunt's leaderboard for a given day may contain fewer products than your `maxResults` cap, especially for recent days where not all daily slots have been filled yet. Additionally, if you set a `minVotes` threshold, products below that threshold are excluded before counting toward the result limit.

**Can I track a specific product category or topic?**
The actor returns the full leaderboard for the day including all topics. Post-processing by `topics` field is the simplest approach — filter the JSON output for records where `topics` includes your category of interest (e.g., `"Artificial Intelligence"` or `"Developer Tools"`). A future version may add server-side topic filtering.

*Disclaimer: This actor scrapes publicly available data from Product Hunt's website. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Product Hunt Inc. Vote counts and rankings are point-in-time snapshots and may not reflect final daily rankings for in-progress launch days. Use of this data is subject to Product Hunt's Terms of Service. This actor is provided for informational and research purposes only.*

***

### Related actors

- [Tech News Aggregator](https://apify.com/gochujang/tech-news-aggregator) — TechCrunch/The Verge coverage of the same products to see which launches get press
- [Reddit Thread Analyzer](https://apify.com/gochujang/reddit-thread-analyzer) — r/technology / r/SideProject community reaction to Product Hunt launches
- [AI Model Tracker](https://apify.com/gochujang/openai-model-tracker) — AI model releases that frequently appear on Product Hunt top charts

### Feedback

If this actor helps your product research, a review helps others find it: [Leave a review on Apify Store](https://apify.com/gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker#reviews)

**Keywords:** Product Hunt scraper, Product Hunt launches tracker, product hunt daily leaderboard, new product launches, startup tracker, Product Hunt votes, product launch monitoring, tech product tracker, Product Hunt data, Product Hunt API alternative

# Actor input Schema

## `daysAgo` (type: `integer`):

0 = today, 1 = yesterday, up to 30 days back.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to return.

## `minVotes` (type: `integer`):

Only return products with at least this many upvotes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysAgo": 0,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "minVotes": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gochujang/producthunt-launches-tracker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rheCQEmgAdyohMWgn/builds/DqmcfdPhRP37pjb0p/openapi.json