🏛️ Product Hunt Upcoming & Pre-Launch Pipeline Scraper

Extract unreleased upcoming products from Product Hunt Coming Soon pipeline with subscriber counts, maker profiles, and launch timing.

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🥊 Why This Actor Beats the Competition

Feature	Tillzero Actor	Standard Web Scrapers / Legacy Bots
Speed & Throughput	⚡ Direct API & high-throughput streams (sub-5s runs)	🐢 Heavy browser Puppeteer overhead (45s+ per query)
Pricing Transparency	💰 Pay-Per-Result ($3.00 / 1k items)	💸 Expensive $49–$99/month subscriptions or compute lock-in
Data Quality & Schemas	🛡️ Strictly typed, validated ISO 8601 JSON	❌ Raw messy HTML dumps with missing columns
Bot Protection & Proxies	🌐 Built-in smart rotation and residential resilience	🚫 Frequent Cloudflare/Akamai 403 blocking

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🛠️ Step-by-Step: How to Use

Method 1: Apify Web Console

1. Navigate to the Actor page in the Apify Store.
2. Configure your search parameters in the intuitive Web UI.
3. Click Start to run the scraper and export results to CSV, Excel, or JSON.

Method 2: Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("litezero/producthunt-upcoming-prelaunch-scraper").call(run_input={"category": "all", "maxResults": 5})

dataset_items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(f"Extracted {len(dataset_items)} items!")

Method 3: Node.js SDK

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('litezero/producthunt-upcoming-prelaunch-scraper').call({"category": "all", "maxResults": 5});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Extracted ${items.length} items!`);

Method 4: REST API / cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/litezero~producthunt-upcoming-prelaunch-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"category": "all", "maxResults": 5}'

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
category	String	Filter by category: 'all', 'tech', 'ai', 'productivity', 'marketing'.	all
minSubscribers	Integer	Filter products having at least this number of interested subscribers.	5
maxResults	Integer	Maximum upcoming products to return.	100

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📤 Output Data Dictionary & Sample JSON

{
  "productName": "PromptForge Studio",
  "tagline": "Collaborative prompt regression testing for production AI agents",
  "description": "Automated regression testing and latency benchmarking for LLM prompt engineers.",
  "subscriberCount": 384,
  "anticipatedLaunch": "November 2026",
  "makerName": "Alex Rivera",
  "makerTwitter": "https://x.com/arivera_dev",
  "makerWebsite": "https://promptforge.ai",
  "teaserUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/promptforge-studio",
  "category": "ai"
}

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💡 Top Commercial Use Cases

1. Automated Market Intelligence: Stream fresh data into Slack, Discord, Google Sheets, or Zapier webhooks.
2. Quantitative Research: Feed machine learning models, predictive alphas, and algorithmic trading desks.
3. B2B Growth & Lead Gen: Poach competitors' unhappy users or discover newly funded high-growth targets.