Product Hunt Scraper

Scrape Product Hunt launches, product pages, makers, topics, upvotes, comments, images, and startup metadata with a Playwright-powered Apify Actor.

What can it do?

• Today’s launches — Crawl the Product Hunt daily leaderboard, with timezone fallback for US Pacific publishing.
• Daily leaderboards — Scrape a specific date using YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY-MM-DD.
• Product search — Find products by keyword or category.
• Single product detail — Extract rich metadata from an individual /posts/{slug} page.
• Optional detail enrichment — Start from a listing and then visit each product page for deeper fields.

Why use this scraper?

• 🚀 Launch monitoring — Track new AI, SaaS, developer tools, and startup launches.
• 📊 Engagement signals — Collect upvotes, comments, maker profiles, topics, and thumbnails where available.
• 🔎 Market research — Build competitor lists, content ideas, lead lists, or trend snapshots.
• 🧩 Flexible inputs — Use today, leaderboard, search, or product modes depending on your workflow.
• 🕒 Timezone-aware — Today mode automatically checks multiple recent dates to avoid empty future leaderboards around UTC/Pacific boundaries.

Input examples

Today’s launches

{
  "mode": "today",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Specific daily leaderboard

{
  "mode": "leaderboard",
  "date": "2026/04/24",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeDetails": false
}

Search Product Hunt

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "AI sales assistant",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Single product page

{
  "mode": "product",
  "productSlug": "chatgpt"
}

You can pass either a slug like chatgpt or a Product Hunt URL/path; the actor normalizes it.

Output example

{
  "slug": "chatgpt",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chatgpt",
  "name": "ChatGPT",
  "tagline": "Optimizing language models for dialogue",
  "description": "...",
  "upvotes": 1234,
  "comments_count": 120,
  "makers": [
    {"username": "openai", "name": "OpenAI"}
  ],
  "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Productivity"],
  "thumbnail": "https://...",
  "source": "producthunt.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T04:00:00Z"
}

Actual fields depend on what Product Hunt renders for the page at crawl time.

Common use cases

• Startup and competitor discovery
• AI/tool trend monitoring
• Lead generation for founder outreach
• Newsletter/content research
• Enriching internal product databases
• Tracking launches by date or keyword

Notes and limitations

• Product Hunt is a dynamic site and can change layout or block listing pages. Single product pages are usually more stable than leaderboard listings.
• If a today crawl returns no listing items, the actor tries a homepage fallback and logs a clear warning.
• includeDetails: true is slower but returns richer product-page metadata.
• You only pay for Apify platform usage (compute and storage).