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, makers, topics, pricing and comments via the official Product Hunt GraphQL API v2.

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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 homepage, 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:

Field	Description
name	Product name
tagline	One-line pitch
description	Full product description
url	Product Hunt post URL
website	Product's own website
votesCount	Total upvotes
commentsCount	Number of comments
dailyRank	Ranking on launch day (#1 = Product of the Day)
weeklyRank	Ranking for the week
launchDate	Date featured on Product Hunt
pricingType	free / paid / freemium
reviewsCount	Number of user reviews
reviewsRating	Average review rating
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail image URL
topicNames	Category tags (e.g. AI, Developer Tools, Productivity)
makers	Full maker profiles with Twitter, website, follower count
hunterName	Who submitted the product
media	Screenshots and video URLs
comments	Top comments (optional)

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⚙️ Setup: Getting Your API Key

This actor uses the official Product Hunt API — you need free API credentials.

1. Go to producthunt.com/v2/oauth/applications
2. Click "Add an Application"
3. Fill in any name and redirect URI (e.g. https://localhost)
4. Copy your Client ID and Client Secret
5. Paste them into the actor input as apiKey and apiSecret

⚡ No approval required — credentials are instant for public data access.

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⚙️ Input Configuration

{
  "apiKey": "your_client_id_here",
  "apiSecret": "your_client_secret_here",
  "mode": "daily",
  "date": "2026-03-14",
  "sortBy": "VOTES",
  "maxPosts": 100,
  "scrapeComments": true,
  "maxComments": 20
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
apiKey	string	—	Product Hunt API Client ID (required)
apiSecret	string	—	Product Hunt API Client Secret (required)
accessToken	string	—	Alternative: provide a pre-obtained Bearer token
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)
scrapeComments	boolean	false	Include top comments for each post
maxComments	integer	20	Max comments per post

Scraping Modes

daily — Get all products launched on a specific day (or today if no date given):

{ "mode": "daily", "date": "2026-03-14" }

dateRange — Get all products launched in a date window:

{ "mode": "dateRange", "dateFrom": "2026-03-01", "dateTo": "2026-03-14" }

topic — Get recent products in a specific category:

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

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
Chrome Extensions	chrome-extensions
Open Source	open-source
Fintech	fintech

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📤 Output Example

{
  "id": "568290",
  "name": "Cursor",
  "slug": "cursor-3",
  "tagline": "The AI-first Code Editor",
  "description": "Cursor is a new code editor built for pair-programming with AI...",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cursor-3",
  "website": "https://cursor.sh",
  "votesCount": 4823,
  "commentsCount": 312,
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": 3,
  "launchDate": "2024-03-14",
  "featuredAt": "2024-03-14T07:00:00Z",
  "pricingType": "freemium",
  "reviewsCount": 89,
  "reviewsRating": 4.8,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/...",
  "topicNames": ["Developer Tools", "Artificial Intelligence", "Productivity"],
  "makerNames": ["Aman Sanger", "Sualeh Asif"],
  "makerUsernames": ["amansanger", "sualeh"],
  "hunterName": "Greg Brockman",
  "hunterUsername": "gdb",
  "hunterTwitter": "gdb",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-14T10:00:00.000Z"
}

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💡 Use Cases

📈 Competitor & Market Intelligence

Track what's launching in your category every day. Get alerted when new AI tools, SaaS products, or developer utilities launch — before they hit mainstream press.

🤖 AI & LLM Training Data

Build datasets of product names, taglines, and descriptions for NLP tasks. Product Hunt's taglines are particularly valuable as short, high-quality product descriptions written by founders.

📊 Launch Analytics & Trend Detection

Which topics are getting the most traction this month? How many AI tools launch per day? What pricing model dominates in the productivity space? Answer these questions with fresh data.

🎯 Lead Generation & Outreach

Identify founders who just launched products in your target market. The maker profiles include Twitter handles and website URLs — perfect for warm outreach timing.

📰 Newsletter & Content Curation

Power a daily or weekly digest of top Product Hunt launches. Filter by topic, minimum vote threshold, or pricing type to curate the most relevant products for your audience.

🔬 Academic Research

Study innovation patterns, startup ecosystems, or the spread of new technology categories. Product Hunt is one of the best longitudinal datasets of tech product launches.

📱 Product Discovery Apps

Build apps that surface the best new tools in specific categories — for developers, designers, marketers, or any niche audience.

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📈 Expected Volume

Mode	Expected Records
Daily (typical day)	20–60 products
Date range (1 month)	600–1,800 products
Topic (recent posts)	20–500 products
With comments	Each post + up to N comment records

Product Hunt features approximately 20–60 products per day on the homepage. Many more are submitted but not featured.

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🔧 Technical Notes

• API: Official Product Hunt GraphQL API v2 at https://api.producthunt.com/v2/api/graphql
• Auth: OAuth 2.0 client_credentials flow — token obtained automatically from your API key
• Pagination: Cursor-based, handles any volume of results
• Rate limits: PH API uses complexity-based rate limiting (1000 complexity per query). This actor stays well within limits with 20 posts per page
• No proxy needed for the API — calls go directly to api.producthunt.com
• Dates: Product Hunt uses PST timezone for its daily featured cycle

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⚠️ Important Notes

• Product Hunt's API does not expose maker Twitter handles due to privacy policy changes (as of 2023). The twitterUsername field may be null for maker profiles.
• The dailyRank field reflects the product's ranking at the time of scraping — it may change throughout the day as more votes come in.
• By default, the Product Hunt API is not licensed for commercial use without explicit permission from Product Hunt. Contact hello@producthunt.com for commercial licensing.