Product Hunt Launches Scraper

An intelligent, Apify-ready Actor that seamlessly extracts daily and weekly product launches directly from Product Hunt. Built with Playwright and advanced anti-bot configuration to bypass Cloudflare protection.

Features

• Scrape Daily or Weekly Launches: Specify the timeframe to scrape ('today', 'yesterday', or 'week').
• Automated Anti-Bot Evasion: Configured out of the box to run in a headed xvfb browser and utilize Apify Residential proxies to bypass strict 403 errors and Cloudflare captchas.
• Auto-Abort Margin Protection: Features a built-in 270s kill switch to ensure your scraper gracefully exits and pushes its dataset before encountering a hard timeout from Apify.

Input Configuration

This actor requires a simple JSON input schema:

{
    "timeframe": "today", // options: "today", "yesterday", "week"
    "maxItems": 50
}

Note: Due to Product Hunt's aggressive anti-scraping measures, it is highly recommended to configure Apify Residential Proxies when running this Actor in production.

Output Structure

The scraper pushes the extracted launches to the Apify default dataset. An example extracted item looks like this:

{
  "title": "Agentic AI Scraper - Automate your web data extraction",
  "productUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/agentic-ai-scraper",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T12:00:00.000Z"
}

How It Works

The Actor utilizes PlaywrightCrawler to emulate real user interaction on Product Hunt. It automatically scrolls to trigger lazy-loaded feeds, waits for React rendering, and extracts product titles and permalinks from the deeply nested DOM structure.