Product Hunt Scraper

Extract product launch data, maker profiles, and engagement metrics from Product Hunt via the official GraphQL API. Filter by topic, date range, or browse all-time launches sorted by votes or recency.

What you get

Each record contains:

Field	Description
product_id	Product Hunt internal product ID
product_name	Name of the product
tagline	Short one-liner
description	Full product description
website_url	Product's external website
product_url	Product Hunt listing URL
thumbnail_url	Product thumbnail image URL
topics	Comma-separated topic names
launch_date	ISO-8601 launch date on Product Hunt
upvote_count	Total upvotes
comment_count	Total comments
review_count	Total reviews
rating	Average rating (0-5)
featured	Whether the product was featured on the homepage
pricing	Pricing model (free, freemium, paid)
maker_names	Comma-separated maker names
maker_usernames	Comma-separated maker Product Hunt usernames
maker_twitter	Comma-separated maker Twitter/X handles
hunter_name	Name of the person who submitted the product
hunter_username	Product Hunt username of the hunter
gallery_images	Space-separated gallery image URLs
scraped_at	ISO-8601 scrape timestamp

Authentication — required

The Product Hunt GraphQL API requires a free developer bearer token. Get one in two steps:

1. Go to producthunt.com/v2/oauth/applications
2. Create an application, then exchange your credentials for a bearer token:

curl -X POST https://api.producthunt.com/v2/oauth/token \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "client_id": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "client_secret": "YOUR_API_SECRET",
    "grant_type": "client_credentials"
  }'

Paste the returned access_token into the API Token input field.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
apiToken	string	—	Required. Product Hunt developer bearer token
filterMode	select	all	all, topic, date_range, or featured
topic	string	—	Topic slug (e.g. artificial-intelligence). Required when filterMode is topic
postedAfter	string	—	ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z). Used with date_range mode
postedBefore	string	—	ISO-8601 date. Used with date_range mode
sortOrder	select	VOTES	VOTES, NEWEST, or FEATURED
maxItems	integer	15	Maximum records to return. Set to 0 for unlimited

Example inputs

All-time top products by votes:

{
  "apiToken": "your_token_here",
  "filterMode": "all",
  "sortOrder": "VOTES",
  "maxItems": 100
}

AI products launched in 2024:

{
  "apiToken": "your_token_here",
  "filterMode": "topic",
  "topic": "artificial-intelligence",
  "sortOrder": "VOTES",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Products launched in a specific month:

{
  "apiToken": "your_token_here",
  "filterMode": "date_range",
  "postedAfter": "2024-03-01T00:00:00Z",
  "postedBefore": "2024-03-31T23:59:59Z",
  "sortOrder": "NEWEST",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Recently featured products:

{
  "apiToken": "your_token_here",
  "filterMode": "featured",
  "sortOrder": "NEWEST",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Rate limits

The scraper uses a conservative 0.5-second delay between requests and fetches 20 products per page.

Dataset views

Three pre-built views are available on the output dataset:

• Product Overview — name, tagline, upvotes, launch date, featured status, and URL
• Full Product Record — all 23 fields
• Maker Contact Data — product name, URL, maker names, usernames, Twitter handles, and hunter info

Notes

• No proxy required. The Product Hunt API does not enforce geo or IP restrictions for authenticated requests.
• daily_rank is always null. This field is only available on the HTML leaderboard pages, which are protected by Cloudflare managed challenge. The GraphQL API does not expose it.
• Maker emails and LinkedIn are not exposed in the public API.
• Pricing: $0.10 per run + $0.001 per record.