Product Hunt Scraper & Daily Launch Leads (Makers & Startups)

Ultra-fast, browserless scraper and real-time data API for Product Hunt (producthunt.com). Extract new daily product launches, trending AI tools, developer software, official product websites, descriptions, and upvote metrics without browser overhead or proxy bandwidth fees.

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Who Buys and Uses This Actor?

• B2B Outbound SDRs & Agency Owners: Pitch design, development, marketing, or SEO services to newly launched startups immediately after they launch on Product Hunt.
• Venture Capital & Angel Investors: Track emerging software and breakout AI tools on day one. Filter by category (AI, Developer Tools, Productivity) to feed dealflow pipelines.
• Product Managers & Founders: Monitor competitors, analyze launch taglines, and benchmark upvote traction across your niche.
• Lead Generation & Dealflow Aggregators: Automatically enrich CRM databases with clean company domain names and product summaries.

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Key Features

• Direct Official Websites: Automatically extracts clean, direct external product URLs (https://lovable.dev, https://n8n.io) for instant B2B outreach.
• Category Filtering: Extract from high-demand categories: AI, Developer Tools, Productivity, Marketing, Design Tools, Finance, or All (Homepage).
• Sub-Second Speed: Built with asynchronous HTTP/2 requests. Runs in seconds on low memory (128 MB to 256 MB RAM).
• Pay-Per-Event Value: Priced at a flat $0.003 per extracted product ($3.00 per 1,000 leads). No expensive monthly subscription required.
• Zero Proxy Costs: Direct endpoints without aggressive anti-bot captchas or browser emulation costs.

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Input Example

{
  "category": "ai",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "enrichDetails": true
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
category	String	"ai"	Category: "all", "ai", "developer-tools", "productivity", "marketing", "design-tools", "finance".
maxItems	Integer	30	Maximum number of products to extract (1 to 500).
enrichDetails	Boolean	true	When true, fetches official external website URL and extended overview.

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Output Example

{
  "id": "566141",
  "name": "Lovable",
  "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
  "slug": "lovable",
  "category": "ai",
  "productHuntUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/lovable",
  "websiteUrl": "https://lovable.dev/?via=product-hunt",
  "cleanWebsite": "https://lovable.dev",
  "description": "The AI Fullstack Engineer that works. Ship lovable full-stack applications 20x faster than by writing code.",
  "votesCount": 39,
  "extractedAt": "2026-10-07T08:02:47.292829+00:00"
}

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Integrations & No-Code Automation

Connect your live Product Hunt stream directly into your existing business workflows:

1. Google Sheets (Live Sync)

Pull extracted products and websites directly into your spreadsheet:

• Formula: In cell A1, paste =IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{DATASET_ID}/items?format=csv&clean=1")
• Apify Integration: Under the Integrations tab, enable Google Sheets to automatically append newly launched products after each run.

2. Make.com (Integromat)

• Add the Apify: Run Actor module to your scenario.
• Route newly discovered websites directly to Airtable, Notion, Slack alerts, or your CRM.

3. n8n Automation

• Use the native Apify Node to trigger scraping runs and send fresh product leads directly to your Postgres database or AI enrichment agent.

4. Clay & Dealflow Feeds

• Import the Apify dataset directly into Clay via Webhook to enrich founder contacts, LinkedIn URLs, and company funding.

5. Automated Weekly Schedule (Recurring Retention Recipe)

Never run scrapers manually. Keep your dealflow and lead pipeline updated automatically:

• Trigger: Every Monday at 08:00 UTC (cron: 0 8 * * 1)
• Apify Schedule: Go to Schedules tab -> Create new schedule -> Select product-hunt-launches-makers-scraper
• Destination: Auto-append new rows to Google Sheets or send a Slack alert with the top 10 upvoted products of the week.

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Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model:

• Rate: $0.003 per extracted product.
• 1,000 Products: $3.00.
• Platform Usage: Free platform compute units are included. You only pay for verified, extracted data items.

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Support and feedback

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