🚀 Product Hunt Daily Alpha Scraper

Lightning-fast, zero-bloat scraper to extract today's top products from Product Hunt. Built for VCs, marketers, and founders who need real-time alpha without the wait.

💡 Why choose this Actor?

Most Product Hunt scrapers use heavy browsers (Puppeteer/Playwright) that consume massive compute units (CUs) and take forever to load.

Not this one. Developed by hachi-dev, this scraper uses a highly optimized, headless HTTP engine (CheerioCrawler) with advanced stealth headers.

• ⚡ Blazing Fast: Extracts the entire daily leaderboard in under 2 seconds.
• 💰 Cost-Effective: Runs flawlessly on just 512MB memory, dropping your Apify costs to the absolute minimum.
• 🛡️ Anti-Block Tech: Automatically bypasses 403 Forbidden errors with realistic browser fingerprinting.

🎯 Who is this for?

• Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors: Catch trending startups the moment they launch.
• Marketers & Copywriters: Analyze viral product names, taglines, and successful categories.
• Makers & Indie Hackers: Monitor competitor launches and engagement metrics (Upvotes & Comments).
• No-Code Automation Builders: Seamlessly pipe this JSON data into Zapier, Make, Notion, or Slack.

⚙️ Input Parameters

It’s incredibly simple to use. Just set your limits and go.

• maxItems (integer): The maximum number of products to scrape from today's list (Default: 30 - perfectly covers a full day's launches).
• proxyConfiguration (object): Residential proxies are recommended for the highest stability, though Apify's auto proxy works great.

📊 High-Quality Output Data

The output is carefully structured in clean, developer-friendly JSON. Here is a sample of what you get:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "productName": "Superset",
  "productUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/superset-5",
  "tagline": "Run an army of Claude Code, Codex, etc. on your machine",
  "upvotes": 465,
  "commentsCount": 64,
  "categories": [
    "Productivity",
    "Developer Tools",
    "Artificial Intelligence"
  ],
  "makers": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-28T07:07:06.000Z"
}

🚀 Performance & Cost

Because this actor is engineered for maximum efficiency:

• Average Run Time: ~1.5 seconds.
• Memory Usage: 512 MB.
• Cost per 1,000 runs: Practically negligible on Apify's Free Tier.

Crafted with precision by [hachi-dev]