Product Hunt Scraper 🐱⬆️

Scrape daily Product Hunt launches — name, tagline, description, votes, topics, maker, and a clean link — with no API key. Fast, cheap, and datacenter-proxy friendly. Perfect for trend-hunting, VC deal sourcing, competitive intel, and maker research.

Track what's launching on Product Hunt today, every day, automatically.

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💡 What it does

This actor pulls recent Product Hunt launches from Product Hunt's public feed and returns clean, structured JSON — one row per product. No login, no developer token, no OAuth dance. Point it at the front page or a specific category and get the day's launches in seconds.

Fields returned per product

Field	Description
id	Product Hunt post ID
name	Product name
tagline	One-line pitch
description	Longer description (capped at 2000 chars)
url	Clean Product Hunt page URL (tracking params stripped)
external_url	Redirect link to the maker's own site
votes	Upvote count (when available)
comments	Comment count (when available)
topics	Topic/category tags (when available)
maker	Submitter / maker name
category	Category slug requested
published	Launch timestamp (ISO-8601 UTC)
thumbnail	Thumbnail image (when available)
scraped_at	When this row was scraped (ISO-8601 UTC)

All fields are nullable, so your downstream code never breaks on a missing value.

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🚀 Use cases

• Startup & trend tracking — spot the tools and products gaining traction today, before they hit the mainstream.
• VC & angel deal sourcing — build a daily pipeline of fresh launches with makers and links, ready for your CRM.
• Maker & founder research — study winning taglines, positioning, and categories to sharpen your own launch.
• Competitive intelligence — monitor your niche for new entrants and copy-cats the moment they appear.
• Newsletter & content curation — auto-populate a "best new products" digest.

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⚙️ Input

{
  "mode": "launches",
  "categories": [""],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Input	Type	Default	Notes
mode	select	launches	Fetch recent launches.
categories	array	[""]	Category/topic slugs (e.g. tech, design, ai). "" = all / front page. One feed per entry.
maxItems	integer	100	Max launches to return across all categories (1–500).

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📤 Output sample

{
  "id": "1199124",
  "name": "OpenSEO",
  "tagline": "The open source Ahrefs alternative",
  "description": "The open source Ahrefs alternative",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/openseo",
  "external_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/r/p/1199124",
  "votes": null,
  "comments": null,
  "topics": null,
  "maker": "fmerian",
  "category": null,
  "published": "2026-07-17T13:34:52+00:00",
  "thumbnail": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T18:40:00+00:00"
}

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💰 Pricing

~$0.50 per 1,000 launches — dramatically cheaper than API-key-gated or browser-heavy alternatives. This actor uses a lightweight HTTP request against a public feed, so it runs on the cheapest 512 MB setting with datacenter proxies (or no proxy at all).

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🆚 Comparison

	This actor	Official PH API	Browser-based scrapers
API key required	❌ No	✅ Yes (OAuth)	❌ No
Rate-limit approval	❌ None	✅ Needed	❌ None
Proxy cost	Datacenter / none	n/a	Residential (expensive)
Speed	⚡ Seconds	Fast	🐢 Slow (renders JS)
Price	💸 ~$0.50/1k	Free but gated	💰💰 High

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🔗 Related actors by this author

• GitHub Trending Scraper — trending repos & developers.
• Hacker News Scraper — front-page stories & comments.
• Dev.to Scraper — developer articles & tags.
• Reddit Scraper — posts & full comment trees.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a Product Hunt account or API token? No. This actor reads a public feed.

Are votes/topics always present? Votes and topics come from Product Hunt's richer HTML surfaces and are not in every feed; when unavailable the fields are null. Name, tagline, maker, link, and published date are always populated.

How fresh is the data? The feed reflects Product Hunt's live launches, typically the most recent ~50 per category.

Keywords: product hunt scraper, product hunt api, daily launches, startup discovery, new products, maker tools, VC deal sourcing, trend tracking, competitive intelligence, tech products, product launches, upvotes.