Product Hunt Scraper

Scrape Product Hunt launches, votes, and product data — track daily leaderboards, discover trending products by category, and monitor the startup ecosystem. Perfect for market research and competitive analysis.

Features

• Daily leaderboard scraping — extract top products from any date's leaderboard
• Category browsing — scrape products by topic (AI, SaaS, Developer Tools, Marketing, etc.)
• Search functionality — find products by keyword across all of Product Hunt
• Historical data — scrape past launches up to 7+ days back
• Rich product data — name, tagline, votes, comments, website URL, topics, makers, and thumbnails
• Next.js data extraction — parses embedded JSON data for maximum field coverage
• Auto-pagination — collects up to 200+ products per run

Output Example

{
  "name": "AI Code Reviewer",
  "tagline": "Automated code reviews powered by GPT-5",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-code-reviewer",
  "votes": 847,
  "comments": 123,
  "website": "https://aicodereview.com",
  "thumbnail": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/...",
  "topics": ["Developer Tools", "Artificial Intelligence", "Productivity"],
  "makers": ["Sarah Chen", "Mike Johnson"],
  "createdAt": "2026-03-17T08:00:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-18T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

• Market research — discover new products and startups launching in your industry every day
• Competitive monitoring — track competitor launches, vote counts, and community reception
• Trend analysis — identify trending product categories and emerging technology patterns
• Investor research — screen early-stage startups by traction (votes, comments) and category
• Inspiration database — build a dataset of product ideas, taglines, and positioning strategies

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
scrapeDaily	Boolean	true	Whether to scrape daily leaderboards
daysToScrape	Number	7	Number of days back to scrape (1-30)
categories	Array	[]	Product Hunt topics to scrape (e.g., ["artificial-intelligence", "saas"])
searchQueries	Array	[]	Keywords to search for products
maxProducts	Number	200	Maximum total products to extract

Cost Estimation

• ~$0.50 per 200 products extracted
• A full week of daily leaderboards takes under 5 minutes
• Free tier: up to 50 products with Apify free plan

FAQ

Q: Can I get all products from a specific launch date? A: Yes. Set scrapeDaily: true and daysToScrape: 1 to get today's launches, or increase the number to scrape multiple days of leaderboards.

Q: Does it extract the actual product website URL? A: Yes. When available, the scraper extracts the external website URL (not just the Product Hunt page), so you can visit the actual product.

Q: How often is Product Hunt data updated? A: Product Hunt posts new products daily starting at 12:01 AM PST. Vote and comment counts are live at the time of scraping.