🔎 Product Hunt Scraper

Collect Product Hunt launch data with a practical browser based workflow designed for business use. This actor helps you gather structured post information from search pages, topic pages, today's launches, or direct Product Hunt URLs.

Instead of manually browsing launch pages and copying details one by one, you can run a single job and get a clean dataset with product names, taglines, vote signals, topics, makers, featured status, and source links ready for analysis.

Whether you are tracking trends in your niche, monitoring competitors, building launch watchlists, or feeding internal dashboards, this scraper gives you reliable and export friendly output in minutes.

Target Audience: Product teams, growth teams, founders, investors, and market researchers
Primary Use Cases: Launch monitoring, trend tracking, competitor research, and product discovery

🌟 What This Scraper Does

This tool collects Product Hunt listing data and enriches each result from post pages. Output includes:

• Product image
• Product name
• Tagline
• Description
• Vote count
• Featured flag
• Topics
• Makers
• Post URL
• Website URL
• Source URL
• Scrape timestamp

🎬 Demo

Demo video coming soon.

🧩 Input

Use one input method per run:

• startUrl mode
• filter mode (scrapeMode and related fields)

Do not combine startUrl with filters.

Input fields

• startUrl: Direct Product Hunt URL
• maxItems: Maximum items to collect (Free users: up to 100, Paid users: up to 1,000,000)
• scrapeMode: search, today, or topic
• query: Search term used in search mode
• topic: Topic slug used in topic mode (example: artificial-intelligence)
• order: default or votes
• featuredOnly: Keep only featured items
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (residential proxy is strongly recommended)

Example input with filters

{
  "scrapeMode": "search",
  "query": "productivity",
  "order": "votes",
  "featuredOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 10
}

Example input with start URL

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=analytics",
  "maxItems": 10
}

📊 Output

After the run finishes, data is available in the dataset and can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML.

{
  "imageUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/example.png",
  "name": "Example Product",
  "tagline": "Short product summary",
  "description": "Longer product description from the post page.",
  "votesCount": 125,
  "isFeatured": true,
  "topics": ["AI", "Productivity"],
  "makers": ["Maker One", "Maker Two"],
  "postUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/example-product",
  "websiteUrl": "https://example.com",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=productivity",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-19T20:00:00.000Z"
}

⚡ Why Choose This Scraper

• Supports direct URL mode and filter mode
• Fast extraction with parallel detail enrichment
• Friendly logs and clear validation messages
• Structured output ready for BI and CRM workflows

🛠️ How to Use

1. Sign up: Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the actor in Apify Console.
3. Choose startUrl mode or filter mode.
4. Set maxItems and run.
5. Download results from the Dataset tab.

💼 Business Use Cases

• Track new products in your category
• Monitor competitor launches
• Build weekly launch reports
• Create watchlists for partnership and investment research

❓ FAQ

Q: How does this scraper work?
A: The actor opens Product Hunt in a browser session, collects listing results, and enriches each item with detail page data. You can run it in direct URL mode or filter mode. The workflow is point and click, so no coding is required.

Q: Can I use startUrl and filters in the same run?
A: No. Use one input method per run. If startUrl is provided, filter fields should be left empty.

Q: What filters are supported?
A: Filter mode supports scrapeMode (search, today, topic), query, topic, order, and featuredOnly. These filters are implemented in the actor logic, not only in the input form.

Q: Does this scraper support pagination?
A: Yes. It keeps loading more results until maxItems is reached or Product Hunt has no more visible results for the selected mode.

Q: Is proxy required?
A: Product Hunt can trigger security verification pages. Residential proxy is strongly recommended for stable production runs, especially for larger collections.

Q: Can I schedule recurring runs?
A: Yes. You can use Apify scheduling to run this actor automatically on your preferred cadence.

🔌 Integrations

Connect this actor with:

• Make
• Zapier
• Slack
• Airbyte
• Google Drive

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📞 Contact

Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report a technical issue with this actor: https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA

Need Help? Use Apify support for setup help and troubleshooting.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Product Hunt.