Product Hunt Daily Launches Scraper

Track every product launch on Product Hunt — the world's largest community for discovering new tech products. Get daily launch data including votes, rankings, topics, thumbnails and launch dates.

✅ No API key required. This actor scrapes Product Hunt's public leaderboard and topic pages out of the box — no developer token, no login, no setup. (You can optionally plug in a free Product Hunt API key for extra fields like makers and full descriptions — see below.)

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🚀 What Is Product Hunt?

Product Hunt is where thousands of makers launch their products every day. Each day's top-voted products get featured on the leaderboard, making it one of the best signals for discovering emerging tools, SaaS products, AI apps, and developer utilities. Over 4,000 products are launched each month.

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📦 What Data Do You Get?

Every product launch record includes (no key needed):

Field	Description
name	Product name
tagline	One-line pitch
url	Product Hunt product URL
votesCount	Total upvotes (live score)
launchDayVotes	Votes earned on launch day
commentsCount	Number of comments
dailyRank	Ranking on launch day (#1 = Product of the Day)
weeklyRank / monthlyRank	Weekly / monthly ranking
launchDate	Date featured on Product Hunt
featuredAt / createdAt	ISO timestamps
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail image URL
topicNames / topics	Category tags (e.g. AI, Developer Tools, Productivity)

With enrichDetails enabled (no key, one extra request per post) you also get:

Field	Description
description	Full product description
makers / makerNames / makerUsernames	Maker profiles (name, username, headline, avatar)

With optional API credentials the official GraphQL API is used instead, adding website, media, reviewsCount, reviewsRating and full comments.

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Minimal — just run it for today's launches:

{ "mode": "daily" }

A specific day:

{ "mode": "daily", "date": "2026-06-03" }

A date window:

{ "mode": "dateRange", "dateFrom": "2026-06-01", "dateTo": "2026-06-03" }

A topic/category:

{ "mode": "topic", "topic": "artificial-intelligence" }

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	daily	daily / dateRange / topic
date	string	today	Target date for daily mode: YYYY-MM-DD
dateFrom	string	—	Start date for dateRange mode
dateTo	string	—	End date for dateRange mode
topic	string	—	Topic slug for topic mode (see below)
sortBy	string	VOTES	VOTES / NEWEST / FEATURED_AT
maxPosts	integer	500	Max posts to return (0 = unlimited)
enrichDetails	boolean	false	No-key mode: add makers + full description (slower)
apiKey / apiSecret	string	—	Optional. Switches to the official API for richer data
accessToken	string	—	Optional. Pre-obtained Bearer token (official API)
scrapeComments	boolean	false	Official-API: include comments. No-key: enables enrichment
maxComments	integer	20	Max comments per post (official API only)
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential US	Proxy for the web scrape

Popular Topic Slugs

Topic	Slug
Artificial Intelligence	artificial-intelligence
Developer Tools	developer-tools
Productivity	productivity
Marketing	marketing
Design Tools	design-tools
SaaS	saas
No-Code	no-code
Open Source	open-source
Fintech	fintech

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🔑 Optional: Using a Free Product Hunt API Key

You do not need this. But if you supply credentials, the actor uses the official GraphQL API v2 for the richest data (makers, descriptions, media, reviews, comments):

1. Go to producthunt.com/v2/oauth/applications
2. Click "Add an Application", enter any name + redirect URI
3. Copy your API Key and API Secret into apiKey / apiSecret

If the API call fails for any reason, the actor automatically falls back to the no-key web scrape.

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📤 Output Example (no key)

{
  "id": "1149728",
  "name": "Elentaria",
  "slug": "elentaria",
  "tagline": "Your GTM: from diagnosis to execution",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/elentaria",
  "votesCount": 576,
  "launchDayVotes": 544,
  "commentsCount": 97,
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": 2,
  "monthlyRank": 2,
  "launchDate": "2026-06-03",
  "featuredAt": "2026-06-03T00:01:00-07:00",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/48d14be3-c76f-470b-a30d-be79b45c0f5f.jpeg",
  "topicNames": ["Sales", "Marketing"],
  "source": "web",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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💡 Use Cases

• Competitor & market intelligence — track what launches in your category every day.
• Trend detection — which topics get the most traction this week/month.
• Newsletter & content curation — power a daily/weekly digest of top launches.
• AI / LLM training data — high-quality product names, taglines and descriptions.
• Lead generation — spot founders who just launched (enable enrichment for makers).
• Academic research — one of the best longitudinal datasets of tech launches.

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📈 Expected Volume

Mode	Expected Records
Daily (typical day)	20–50 products
Date range (1 month)	~600–1,500 products
Topic page	up to ~200 products

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🔧 Technical Notes

• No-key engine: scrapes Product Hunt's public leaderboard / topic pages with got-scraping through Apify Residential (US) proxy, and parses the React Server Component data embedded in the HTML. Cloudflare does not block these requests.
• Optional API engine: official Product Hunt GraphQL API v2 (api.producthunt.com), OAuth client-credentials, cursor pagination — only used when you supply credentials.
• votesCount is the live score shown on Product Hunt; dailyRank reflects the leaderboard order for that day.
• Dates use Product Hunt's PST daily cycle.

❓ FAQ

Is this a Product Hunt API alternative?

Yes. The default engine scrapes Product Hunt's public leaderboard and topic pages with no developer token, so you get launches, votes, ranks and topics as a Product Hunt API alternative without OAuth setup.

Can I scrape Product Hunt without an API key or login?

Yes — no API key, no login, no developer account. It parses the public leaderboard pages out of the box. You can optionally add a free API key only for richer maker/description fields.

How do I export Product Hunt launches to CSV or JSON?

Every run writes results to an Apify dataset, which you can download as CSV, JSON, Excel or XML — making it an easy Product Hunt data export and dataset tool for daily launches.

Can I extract Product Hunt data by topic or date range?

Yes. Use topic mode for category data extraction (AI, Developer Tools, SaaS, etc.) or dateRange mode to pull a historical window of daily launches.

📝 Changelog

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for using this as a Product Hunt API alternative, scraping without an API key/login, and exporting daily launches to CSV/JSON.

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

2026-06-04

• Major: no API key required. Default engine now scrapes Product Hunt's public leaderboard / topic pages (name, tagline, votes, rank, topics, thumbnail, launch date) with zero setup. API key is now fully optional and only adds makers/description/comments. Added enrichDetails for no-key maker + description enrichment.