💡 Product Hunt Launches Scraper — Indie Product Launch Stream

Stream Product Hunt launches from Product Hunt's public Atom feed — one clean JSON row per launch. Built for indie-founder benchmarking, BD and sales prospecting, journalism, VC sourcing and peer launch monitoring.

📊 What you get

One record per launch, 13 fields:

Field	Description
post_id	Product Hunt post id (integer, stable primary key)
title	Product name
slug	URL slug
tagline	One-line product tagline
url	Product Hunt page URL
redirect_url	Product Hunt's outbound redirect to the maker's site
author	Maker / submitter name as published in the feed
published_at	Launch published timestamp (ISO 8601, PH's offset)
updated_at	Last-updated timestamp (ISO 8601)
content_text	Feed description, tags stripped
content_html	Feed description, original HTML
category	The category term you asked for, when the launch matched it (otherwise null)
source	Always producthunt.com

🔎 Scope and limits — read this first

• The public Atom feed exposes the ~50 most recent launches per pull. There is no historical archive and no vote, comment, topic-tag, gallery or follower data in this feed — those fields are not produced by this actor.
• Product Hunt's feed ignores a server-side category parameter (verified 2026-09-05). Any categories you supply are therefore matched locally against each launch's title, tagline and description, and category is set only on rows that actually matched.
• dateFrom / dateTo filter within that recent window; they cannot reach older launches.

▶️ Example input

{
  "keyword": "ai",
  "maxLaunches": 25
}

{
  "categories": ["developer-tools"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "maxLaunches": 50
}

Run it from the Apify Console, the API, the CLI (apify call nexgendata/product-hunt-launches-scraper), or any MCP-aware agent client. Results export as JSON / JSONL / CSV / Excel / HTML.

⏰ Schedule it

A daily or hourly Apify schedule (e.g. 0 * * * *) turns this into an always-on launch watch; dedupe downstream on post_id.

💵 Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• $0.05 per launch delivered to the dataset (primary event) — about 20 launches per $1.
• $0.00005 per actor-start GB-event — one-time per run.

You pay for delivered rows only. A run that is blocked or returns no matching launches delivers no rows and charges no result events.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Sample agent prompt:

Pull today's Product Hunt launches and summarise the AI ones.

Agentic payments (x402): supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related NexGenData actors

PR Newswire · Business Wire · GlobeNewswire · Brand Mention Monitor · News MCP

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Data from Product Hunt's public Atom feed.