🚀 Product Hunt Scraper — Launches, Trends & Startup Data

Scrape Product Hunt for product launches, upvotes, comments, and maker profiles. Discover trending startups, upcoming products, and daily/weekly/monthly featured launches. Track product performance and community engagement — perfect for market research, competitive analysis, and startup scouting.

This Actor extracts structured data from Product Hunt without requiring any API keys or authentication. Just select your mode and start scraping.

🚀 What does this Actor do?

• Trending mode — Grab today's, this week's, or this month's top-voted products with names, taglines, upvote counts, categories, and maker info
• Search mode — Find products by keyword and get structured results with rankings and metadata
• Product mode — Deep-dive into specific product pages by URL to extract comments, reviews, pricing, and detailed descriptions

Whether you're building a startup database, tracking competitor launches, or doing market research, this scraper delivers clean, structured JSON ready for your pipeline.

💡 Use Cases

• Market intelligence — Monitor daily Product Hunt launches to spot emerging trends and competitors in your niche
• Lead generation — Extract maker profiles and product URLs for outreach campaigns targeting recently launched startups
• Content curation — Build automated newsletters or reports of the top-rated products each week with upvotes and descriptions

📊 Output Example

{
  "name": "AI Writing Assistant Pro",
  "tagline": "Write better, faster with AI-powered suggestions",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-writing-assistant-pro",
  "upvotes": 342,
  "rank": 3,
  "date": "2025-03-15",
  "categories": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Writing"],
  "makers": [
    { "name": "Jane Doe", "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@janedoe" }
  ],
  "description": "A comprehensive AI writing tool...",
  "pricing": "Freemium",
  "commentsCount": 47
}

⚙️ Input Tips

Parameter	Tip
mode	Use trending for a quick overview, search when you need specific topics, product for detailed single-product data
searchQuery	Keep queries short and specific — "AI assistant" works better than long phrases
timeFilter	"daily" for fresh launches, "weekly" for top performers, "monthly" for big-picture trends
maxProducts	Start with 20 to test, then increase up to 200 for full data extraction
productUrls	Provide full Product Hunt URLs (e.g. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/...)

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