# Product Hunt Scraper: Leaderboards, Launches & Products (`ksvan/producthunt-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Product Hunt daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards (rank, score, comments, topics) for any date range, and product pages: website, socials, rating, reviews, followers, categories, launches and awards. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ksvan/producthunt-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [K.S. Van](https://apify.com/ksvan) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Product Hunt Scraper: Leaderboards, Launches & Products

Scrape **Product Hunt leaderboards and product pages**. Pick daily, weekly, monthly or yearly leaderboards for **any date range** and get every top launch with **rank, score, comments, topics, tagline and launch date**. Add product details, or paste product URLs, to get the **website, social links, rating and rating breakdown, reviews count, AI review summary, pros and cons, followers, categories, launches and awards**.

No login, no browser. Pay only per record delivered.

### What you can scrape

- **Daily leaderboards**: the top launches of each day, e.g. the last 7 days or a whole month, day by day.
- **Weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboards**.
- **Products**: `https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion` or just `notion`.

### What you get

#### Launches

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `leaderboard`, `period`, `position` | daily, 2026-10-20, 1 |
| `postId`, `name`, `tagline`, `url` | 1285391, /dev/null, a social network for devs |
| `dailyRank`, `weeklyRank`, `monthlyRank` | 1, 1, 4 |
| `score`, `launchDayScore`, `commentsCount` | 468, 452, 61 |
| `topics`, `launchedAt`, `thumbnail` | Open Source, Social Network |
| `productSlug`, `productUrl` | dev-null |

With **Product details for launches**, each launch also gets all product fields below.

#### Products

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `name`, `tagline`, `description`, `url` | ChatGPT by OpenAI |
| `website`, `websiteDomain`, `iosUrl`, `androidUrl`, `socials` | https://openai.com/chatgpt, {"twitter": ...} |
| `rating`, `reviewsCount`, `ratingBreakdown` | 4.86, 755, {"5": 667, "4": 77, ...} |
| `reviewSummary`, `pros`, `cons` | AI summary of reviews, tags |
| `followersCount`, `launchesCount`, `firstLaunchAt`, `latestLaunch`, `launches` | 12521, 29 |
| `categories`, `awards`, `alternatives` | LLMs, AI Chatbots; Golden Kitty 2023 |
| `isClaimed`, `wasInYCombinator`, `logo` | |

### Use cases

- **Startup and VC scouting**: every top launch of the month with websites and socials.
- **Lead generation**: founders and tools launching in your niche, day by day.
- **Market research**: which topics and categories win, and what reviewers praise or complain about.
- **Launch planning**: scores and comments needed to reach the top 5 on a given day.

### How to use

1. Pick a **Leaderboard** and a date range (`7 days`, or `2026-10-01` to `2026-10-31`).
2. Optional: turn on **Product details for launches**, or paste product URLs.
3. Run, then open the **Launches** or **Products** view.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "leaderboard": "daily",
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-20",
  "maxLaunchesPerPeriod": 10,
  "scrapeProductDetails": true,
  "products": ["notion", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/chatgpt"]
}
```

### Pricing

- **Launch**: charged per leaderboard launch.
- **Product**: charged per product with full details (a launch with details counts as one product record).

No start fee. Pages that fail are reported as `error` records and are **not charged**.

### Tips and limits

- Without login, Product Hunt shows the top 15–20 launches of each period; that is what the actor returns.
- Product Hunt blocks datacenter IPs, so the actor uses residential proxy and retries each failed page on a new IP.
- Vote counts are hidden by Product Hunt on many launches; `score` is the ranking score shown on the leaderboard.

### FAQ

**Do I need a Product Hunt account or API token?** No.

**Is it legal?** The actor reads public pages that Product Hunt shows to every visitor. Use the data in line with Product Hunt terms and data protection rules.

**Something missing?** Open an issue on the Issues tab and I will look at it.

# Actor input Schema

## `leaderboard` (type: `string`):

Top launches for each day, week, month or year in the date range.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

A date (2026-10-01) or relative: '7 days', '4 weeks', '3 months'. Default: yesterday.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

A date (2026-10-20). Default: today.

## `maxLaunchesPerPeriod` (type: `integer`):

Product Hunt shows the top 15–20 launches of each period without login.

## `scrapeProductDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each launched product for website, socials, rating, reviews, followers, categories and awards. Charged as a product record instead of a launch.

## `products` (type: `array`):

Product pages (https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion) or slugs (notion).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

0 = no limit.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many product pages are opened at the same time.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Each retry uses a new proxy IP.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Leave the default: residential proxy (Product Hunt blocks datacenter IPs). Pick a group only to force it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "leaderboard": "daily",
  "dateFrom": "7 days",
  "maxLaunchesPerPeriod": 20,
  "scrapeProductDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 6,
  "maxRetries": 6,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One record per launch or product; failed pages appear as error records and are not charged.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "dateFrom": "7 days",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ksvan/producthunt-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "dateFrom": "7 days",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ksvan/producthunt-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "dateFrom": "7 days",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call ksvan/producthunt-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ksvan/producthunt-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FBhHf3GgLG3hVE7cn/builds/drOoTaSdx63kgi4PT/openapi.json