Product Hunt Scraper — Launches, Makers & Startups

Every company that launches on Product Hunt is telling you something: they have a product, a team, a website, and this week they have budget and attention. Founders answer their DMs on launch week. Competitors show their hand in a tagline. The ones that climb the leaderboard are the ones raising next.

This Actor turns that daily stream into clean data: which products launched, who built them, where to find them, and how the market reacted — by day, week or month, by topic, by search term, or for the exact products you paste in.

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Who it is for

• Outbound and SDR teams — the freshest company list on the internet, with the maker's name, headline and profile on every row. A launch is the warmest first line there is.
• AI / GTM agents — one call, a flat dataset, no login and no key. product, website, domain, makers, votes, launchDate, topics are all on the row; run it on a schedule for a feed.
• Product and competitive teams — track every launch in your category, see who is gaining votes, and read the tagline your competitor chose.
• Investors and analysts — new companies by topic with traction signals (votes, comments, rank, followers, reviews) and company facts where the maker filled them in (team size, funding, YC).
• Makers and marketers — study what wins on a given day, who hunts what, and which topics are crowded.

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What you get per launch

{
  "product": "Weave Router 2.0",
  "tagline": "Subscription aware coding agent router",
  "description": "…",
  "website": "https://weaveos.com/",
  "domain": "weaveos.com",
  "topics": ["Open Source", "Developer Tools", "Artificial Intelligence"],
  "votes": 330,
  "votesHidden": false,
  "comments": 46,
  "launchDate": "2026-09-16",
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": 6,
  "monthlyRank": 28,
  "isFeatured": true,
  "launchNumber": 3,
  "pricingType": "free_options",
  "makers": [
    { "name": "Adam Cohen", "username": "adamc", "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@adamc",
      "headline": "CEO at Weave", "twitter": "https://x.com/adamc" }
  ],
  "makerNames": "Adam Cohen, Andrew Churchill, …",
  "makerCount": 5,
  "hunter": { "name": "Ben Lang", "username": "benln", "profileUrl": "…", "headline": "…" },
  "twitter": "https://x.com/weave", "linkedin": null,
  "reviewsRating": 4.5, "reviewsCount": 12, "followersCount": 300,
  "employeeSize": null, "fundingAmount": null, "wasInYCombinator": false,
  "launchUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/weave/launches/weave-router-2-0",
  "productUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/weave",
  "productId": "598173", "launchId": "1247729",
  "sources": ["day:2026-09-16"]
}

Two dataset views are built in: Launches (the leaderboard table) and Makers & company (the lead view).

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How to use it

You want	Set
This week's launches, most upvoted first	nothing — that is the default
Today's or yesterday's launches	period: today / yesterday
A specific stretch of days	period: custom, dateFrom, dateTo
Everything launched in a topic	topics: Developer Tools, Fintech, SaaS…
Products matching a term	searchTerms: CRM, AI agent for sales…
Exact products or launches	productUrls: the Product Hunt page URLs
Every launch, not only the featured ones	includeUnfeatured: true
Newest first instead of most upvoted	sort: newest
Only launches with traction	minVotes: 50

The selectors combine. The same product coming from two selectors, or launching twice in the window, is one row (the newest launch), with every selector it came from listed under sources.

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Accuracy, on purpose

• Every field is read from the launch itself. Nothing is estimated: a fact the maker did not fill in is null.
• Product Hunt hides vote counts during a launch's first hours. Those rows carry votes: null and votesHidden: true — never a zero.
• Days follow Product Hunt's own calendar (US Pacific), so "yesterday" is the same day the leaderboard shows.
• Tracking parameters are stripped from websites; domain is the site's real host.
• No login, no API key, no browser. Residential proxy by default; a few kilobytes per launch.

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Cost

Pay per launch delivered, plus the platform's start fee. A week of featured launches is typically 100–200 rows. Duplicates, rows removed by your filters and empty runs are never charged; maxLaunches caps both rows and spend.

Pairs well with

• Company Enrichment — turn domain into firmographics and a tech stack.
• Decision-Maker Finder and Email Finder & Verifier — from the maker's name and domain to a verified inbox.
• Recently Funded Companies — the launch today, the round tomorrow.