Product Hunt Launches API

Product Hunt Launches API helps teams collect Product Hunt launches, startup products, maker data as clean JSON on Apify. It uses Product Hunt public Atom feed, so the listing matches the real data source used by the Actor. Extract recent Product Hunt launches from the public feed with product names, descriptions, makers, dates, URLs, and topic filters. This Actor scrapes the public Product Hunt daily leaderboard for a date range, with optional topic filter. Returns ranked launches with upvotes, comment counts, topics, and maker Twitter handles.

Why this matters: Product Hunt's data is the best leading indicator of tech trends. Tracking it daily gives you a 2-4 week head-start over tools that rely on Google Trends.

Features

• Date-range queries (e.g. last 7 days, last 30 days)
• Topic filter (e.g. "AI", "productivity", "dev tools")
• Maker profiles with Twitter handles
• Upvote and comment counts
• No API key (uses public leaderboard pages)
• Hard budget cap at $5 per run

Pricing

• actor-start — $0.005 per run
• launch-extracted — $0.02 per launch
• comment-batch — $0.005 per 100 comments (optional)

Examples: 50 launches across 7 days ≈ $1.01. Hard cap $5.00 per run.

Input

{
  "topic": "AI",
  "dateFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-07-05",
  "maxLaunches": 50
}

Output

{
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "Cline v3",
  "tagline": "AI coding agent in your IDE",
  "launchDate": "2026-07-04",
  "upvotes": 1842,
  "commentsCount": 287,
  "topics": ["AI", "Developer Tools"],
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cline-v3",
  "makers": [{ "name": "Cline Team", "twitter": "@cline" }]
}

FAQ

• Is this data legal? Yes — Product Hunt's daily leaderboard is a public page. We use it the same way a user would.
• Why no API key? Product Hunt's API requires OAuth and a developer app. The public leaderboard works without auth and is what users see in the browser.
• A run returned 0 results. The page structure may have changed. Open an issue and we'll update the parser.

Issues? Open a ticket on the Apify Console for this Actor.