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Product Hunt Scraper

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Product Hunt Scraper

Product Hunt Scraper

Scrape Product Hunt for trending products. Get votes, comments, makers, and trend scores.

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Pay per usage

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Takuma

Takuma

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Collects trending products from Product Hunt and enriches each result with a composite trend score — useful for market research, trend analysis, and B2B lead generation.

Features

  • Scrapes today's, weekly, or monthly leaderboards
  • Optional topic filter (e.g. developer-tools, artificial-intelligence, productivity)
  • Computes a trend score (0–100) that blends votes, comment engagement, and recency
  • Proxy support via Apify Proxy

Input

FieldTypeDefaultDescription
modeenumtodaytoday / weekly / monthly
topicstringOptional topic slug to filter products
maxResultsinteger30Max products returned (1–200)
proxyConfigurationobjectApify Proxy settings

Output Schema

Each item in the dataset has the following fields:

FieldTypeDescription
namestringProduct name
taglinestringOne-line description
descriptionstringLonger description
urlstringProduct Hunt listing URL
websiteUrlstringMaker's website
thumbnailstringThumbnail image URL
votesCountintegerUpvotes received
commentsCountintegerNumber of comments
makerobject{ name, username, headline }
topicsstring[]Associated topic slugs
launchDatestringISO-8601 launch date
trendScorefloatComposite score 0–100
engagementRatiofloatcommentsCount / votesCount
scrapedModestringMode used for this run
scrapedTopicstringTopic filter applied (or empty)
rankintegerRank in results (1 = highest trend score)

Trend Score Formula

trendScore = 100 × (
0.60 × log_votes_score # primary demand signal
+ 0.25 × engagement_ratio # community discussion
+ 0.15 × recency_bonus # freshness (today=1.0, ≤7d=0.5, ≤30d=0.25)
)

Use Cases

  • Market research: identify emerging tools and products in a specific niche
  • Lead generation: find startups with high traction for outreach
  • Trend monitoring: track what's popular on Product Hunt week-over-week
  • Competitive analysis: discover competitors in your product category

Example Input

{
"mode": "weekly",
"topic": "developer-tools",
"maxResults": 50
}

Notes

  • Product Hunt renders pages server-side (SSR). The scraper extracts the embedded __NEXT_DATA__ JSON for reliable parsing, with an HTML fallback.
  • Rate limiting: add Apify Proxy (proxyConfiguration) to avoid IP blocks on high-volume runs.
  • Topic slugs can be found in Product Hunt URLs: https://www.producthunt.com/topics/<slug>