🚀 Product Hunt Scraper

🚀 Export daily Product Hunt launches with votes, comments, and maker info in seconds. No API key, no account, no scraping setup.

The Product Hunt Scraper pulls live daily product launch data directly from Product Hunt's leaderboard pages - the same data powering the site's own rankings. Every run returns fresh results: product names, taglines, descriptions, vote counts, comment counts, topic tags, maker names, and thumbnail images. No Playwright, no browser - pure HTTP with browser-like fingerprinting.

Product Hunt publishes a ranked daily leaderboard of every product submitted that day. This actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute. Monitor the startup ecosystem, track AI tool launches, or build a daily digest - all without writing a single line of code.

Coverage: Up to 20 ranked posts per day, up to 30 days back. Vote counts (votesCount) reflect the score at launch day. All fields are scraped in real-time on every run.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Startup founders, VCs, product managers, tech journalists, marketers, researchers, indie hackers	Daily launch monitoring, competitor tracking, AI tool discovery, trend analysis, content pipelines

📋 What the Product Hunt Scraper does

• Fetches the daily leaderboard page for each requested day (up to 30 days back)
• Extracts all ranked product launches with name, tagline, topics, vote score, and comment count
• Follows each post's detail page to extract the full description and maker name
• Filters out promoted ad slots so only organic launches appear in your dataset
• Caps output at your requested maxItems and free-tier limit
• Pushes structured JSON records to the Apify dataset - ready for CSV, Excel, or API export

💡 Why it matters: Product Hunt is the launchpad for thousands of new tools every year - from AI agents to SaaS to developer tools. Monitoring launches manually is time-consuming. This actor gives you structured data you can query, filter, and pipe into any workflow.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: commentsCount, createdAt, description, featuredAt, imageUrl, maker, name, scrapedAt, tagline, topics, url, votesCount. All 12 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Product Hunt uses Pacific Time (UTC-7) for its daily leaderboards. The actor automatically adjusts dates to match. Each launch requires 2 HTTP requests (leaderboard page + detail page), so large maxItems values take proportionally longer. A run of 20 items typically completes in under 30 seconds.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 credit
2. Open the Product Hunt Scraper actor page on Apify Store
3. Set Days Back (1 for today, 7 for last week, up to 30)
4. Set Max Items (10 for a preview, 20 for a full day, 140+ for a week)
5. Click Start and wait 10-30 seconds
6. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

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This actor scrapes publicly available data from producthunt.com. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Product Hunt or its parent company. Use responsibly and in accordance with Product Hunt's terms of service.

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