🚀 Product Hunt Scraper: Daily Launches, Maker Leads & Company Tech

Extract newly launched startups, trending products, daily rankings, direct company websites, pricing tiers, and maker contact info (names, job titles, Product Hunt profile URLs, company socials) directly from Product Hunt with zero browser overhead.

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🌟 Why Scrape Product Hunt?

Every single day, hundreds of innovative software companies, AI startups, and indie hackers launch on Product Hunt. These founders are at the highest point of intent and receptivity:

• 🎯 B2B Lead Generation: Pitch your dev tools, design services, PR packages, payment gateways, or hosting solutions right when founders have launched and have budget.
• 💼 VC & Angel Dealflow: Track breakout products with surging upvotes and viral community engagement before they hit TechCrunch or AngelList.
• 🔍 Competitor & Market Intelligence: Monitor emerging trends in AI, SaaS, Productivity, and No-Code. See who is launching competing features.
• 🤝 Partnership & Co-Marketing: Discover complementary apps for integrations, sponsorships, and cross-promotions.

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⚡ Key Features

• Daily Launches & Historical Leaderboard: Scrape today's front page launches, yesterday's winners, or any historical leaderboard date.
• Direct Maker & Founder Profiles: Extracts makers' full names, official job titles/headlines (e.g. Founder & CEO, CTO & Co-Founder), Product Hunt profiles, and avatars.
• Direct Clean Company Websites: Unpacks official external website URLs (https://monospace.io) without redirect hops or tracking parameters.
• Company Socials: Extracts company Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and GitHub repositories directly from the product metadata.
• Pricing & Tier Detection: Identifies whether the product is Free / Freemium, Paid, or free trial.
• Rich Engagement Metrics: Real-time upvote counts, comments count, daily rank (#1 Product of the Day), and user ratings (reviewsRating, reviewsCount).
• Topics & Categories: Clean tagging (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, SaaS, Productivity).
• Blazing Fast & Ultra-Lightweight: Built on high-performance HTTP SSR parsing without headless browser bloat, delivering up to 100+ products in seconds.

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📥 Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
feedMode	String	"today"	Choose "today", "yesterday", "custom_date", or "direct_urls".
customDate	String	""	Date formatted as YYYY-MM-DD (used if feedMode is "custom_date").
directUrls	Array	[]	List of specific Product Hunt post or product URLs to scrape.
scrapeMakerDetails	Boolean	true	When enabled, enriches products with maker names, job titles, socials, and direct websites.
minVotes	Integer	0	Minimum upvote threshold to filter out low-signal launches.
maxItems	Integer	50	Maximum number of products to extract.
proxyConfiguration	Object	{ "useApifyProxy": true }	Apify proxy configuration to bypass Cloudflare and prevent rate limits.

Example Input:

{
  "feedMode": "today",
  "scrapeMakerDetails": true,
  "minVotes": 10,
  "maxItems": 30
}

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📤 Output Data Format

Each item in your dataset contains clean, structured JSON ready for CRM, Google Sheets, or webhook export:

{
  "id": "1251614",
  "name": "Monospace from Directus",
  "slug": "monospace-from-directus",
  "tagline": "The governed API layer for every app, person, and agent",
  "description": "Monospace sits between enterprise data and everyone who builds on it. Connect any data source, and your developers, business teams, and AI agents get live, read-write access to it.",
  "productHuntUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/monospace-from-directus",
  "website": "https://monospace.io",
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "votesCount": 363,
  "commentsCount": 80,
  "pricingType": "Free / Freemium",
  "reviewsRating": 4.89,
  "reviewsCount": 18,
  "companyTwitter": "https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=directus",
  "companyLinkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/directus-io",
  "companyGithub": "https://github.com/directus/directus",
  "featuredAt": "2026-10-01T00:01:00-07:00",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-01T00:01:00-07:00",
  "topics": [
    "API",
    "Developer Tools",
    "Data"
  ],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/f2d08a6b-b088-4b28-affa-1c10df46549b.png",
  "makers": [
    {
      "name": "Ben Haynes",
      "headline": "Founder & CEO @Directus",
      "username": "benhaynes",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@benhaynes",
      "avatar": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/693704/793c6625-f702-4ee7-a15d-f85842b1f760.png"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rijk van Zanten",
      "headline": "CTO & Co-Founder @Directus",
      "username": "rijkvanzanten",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/@rijkvanzanten",
      "avatar": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/950560/57a15a9b-dcab-4ca6-8de9-7e43e57c82b6.jpeg"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-02T01:31:00.000Z"
}

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💡 Practical Use Cases

1. Cold Email & Outbound Sales: Enrich newly launched startups with maker names and job titles for personalized, high-converting launch congratulations emails.
2. VC Deal Sourcing: Set up a daily scheduled run on Apify to push top-ranked launches directly into Airtable or Notion.
3. Competitive Benchmarking: Track launch playbooks, upvote momentum, and category trends over time.