# Product Hunt Scraper API - Launches & Leaderboard | $1/1K (`moneyreset/product-hunt-scraper`) Actor

Product Hunt scraper API at $1 per 1,000 products. Daily leaderboard and homepage launches: name, tagline, votes, comments, rank, topics, and website URL. Today, yesterday, any date or a date range. For VC scouting, lead gen and launch newsletters. No API token, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moneyreset/product-hunt-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Money Reset](https://apify.com/moneyreset) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools, Automation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 95.8% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## 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 API: Launches & Leaderboard | $1 per 1,000 products

Scrape **Product Hunt's daily leaderboard** and homepage launches for any day: product name, tagline, **votes**, comments, rank, topics, and the Product Hunt and website links. Depending on the day, you also get the description, categories, weekly and monthly rank, and a thumbnail. It needs **no API token** and no login, and costs **$1 per 1,000 products**.

### What it can do

- Today's or yesterday's top launches, any specific date, or the last N days (up to 365)
- Homepage feed mode
- Filter by minimum votes or by topic (e.g. *Artificial Intelligence*, *Developer Tools*)
- Schedule it daily for a launch digest, newsletter or Slack alert

### Use cases

- **Investors and VC scouts:** spot breakout startups on launch day.
- **Sales and lead gen:** build lists of newly launched SaaS tools with their websites.
- **Founders and marketers:** benchmark votes and timing before your own launch, and track competitors.
- **Newsletter writers and AI agents:** feed an automatic "top launches today" digest.
- **Market research:** see what's trending in AI, dev tools or no-code over months.

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$1.00 per 1,000 products** ($0.001 each). There's no monthly rental, and filtered-out launches are free.

| Job | Products | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Today's leaderboard | ~20 | ~$0.02 |
| Last 30 days of launches | ~600 | ~$0.60 |
| A full year of top launches | ~7,000 | ~$7 |

### Input example

```json
{ "mode": "yesterday", "daysBack": 7, "minVotes": 100, "topicFilter": ["Artificial Intelligence"] }
```

Or pick specific days: `{ "dates": ["2026-10-13", "2026-10-12"] }`

### Sample output

```json
{
  "leaderboardDate": "2026-10-13", "rank": 1, "name": "Articos MCP",
  "tagline": "See how simulated buyers react, right in your agent",
  "votes": 328, "comments": 102, "topics": ["Marketing", "Developer Tools", "Artificial Intelligence"],
  "postUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/articos-mcp",
  "productUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/articos",
  "websiteUrl": "https://…", "weeklyRank": 1, "monthlyRank": 18,
  "featuredAt": "2026-10-13T00:01:00-07:00"
}
```

### Integrations: API, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets

- **API:** call `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/moneyreset~product-hunt-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN` with your input as JSON and get results back in one request.
- **No-code:** use the official Apify apps for **Make**, **Zapier** and **n8n** to send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot or email.
- **Schedules:** use Apify Schedules to run it daily or weekly, and add a webhook to get pinged when it finishes.
- **Export:** JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the dataset tab.
- **AI agents:** works through the Apify MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT and other agents can call it as a tool.

### FAQ

**Do I need a Product Hunt API token?** No.
**How many products per day?** It returns the featured launches for each day, usually around 20. Vote counts are live at the time of scraping.
**What time zone are dates in?** Product Hunt days follow US Pacific time.
**Do I need a proxy?** Apify Proxy (datacenter) is on by default, so there's nothing to set up.
**Does it include maker emails or personal profiles?** No. It returns product launch data only.
**Is it legal?** It reads public leaderboard pages with polite delays and no login. Product Hunt's terms restrict scraping and copying significant portions of its content, so check that your use fits the terms and laws that apply to you. This isn't legal advice.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Ignored for leaderboard dates when 'Dates' is set.

## `dates` (type: `array`):

Specific leaderboard days to scrape, e.g. 2026-10-13. Overrides mode.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

With today/yesterday mode, also scrape this many previous days (1 = just that day).

## `maxProductsPerDay` (type: `integer`):

0 = all.

## `minVotes` (type: `integer`):

Drop launches below this vote count.

## `topicFilter` (type: `array`):

Keep only launches tagged with one of these topics, e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools.

## `delayMs` (type: `integer`):

Polite delay between pages.

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

Product Hunt may block some IPs. Apify Proxy is used by default on the platform.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "today",
  "dates": [],
  "daysBack": 1,
  "maxProductsPerDay": 0,
  "minVotes": 0,
  "topicFilter": [],
  "delayMs": 1000,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Products in the default dataset

# 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 = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moneyreset/product-hunt-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 = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moneyreset/product-hunt-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 '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call moneyreset/product-hunt-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moneyreset/product-hunt-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/7os3D2FXUCmU8plqA/builds/FXd414VZCZyQZapNU/openapi.json