Product Hunt Daily Launches Scraper

Extract product launches from Product Hunt -- the featured daily posts, newest launches, and trending products. Get product names and direct links to their Product Hunt pages.

Summary

Product Hunt is the go-to platform for discovering new tech products, with thousands of products launched every month and millions of monthly visitors including investors, founders, and early adopters. This actor extracts product launch data from Product Hunt's main feed, daily leaderboard, and weekly rankings, returning product names and direct URLs.

Built with PlaywrightCrawler, the actor handles Product Hunt's modern single-page application architecture, waiting for all dynamic content to render before extracting data. It uses multiple selector strategies to find product listings and returns clean structured data.

Ideal for startup researchers, investors, tech journalists, and anyone tracking innovation and new product trends in technology.

How It Works

1. Choose a section -- featured (home page), newest (daily leaderboard), or trending (weekly).
2. Set how many products you want (up to 100).
3. The actor opens the Product Hunt page in a Playwright browser with residential proxy support.
4. It waits for the page's JavaScript to fully render and the product cards to appear.
5. For each product found, it captures the product name and direct Product Hunt URL.
6. Each product is pushed to the dataset as a structured JSON record.
7. Results are returned with product names and links ready for further exploration.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	No	20	Maximum number of products to return (1-100)
section	select	No	featured	PH section: featured (home), newest (daily), or trending (weekly)

Output Example

[
  {
    "title": "Example Product",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/example-product",
    "source": "posts-link",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-07T04:30:00.000Z"
  }
]

Pricing

This actor uses a pay-per-result model. You are charged only for the dataset items returned. Residential proxies are used to ensure reliable access to Product Hunt. A typical run of 20 products costs under $0.01 in total platform usage.

Use Cases

• Startup Research: Track which products launch each day and identify trending categories and innovation patterns.
• Competitive Monitoring: Watch for new competitors launching in your industry vertical.
• Investment Screening: Monitor Product Hunt for early-stage startups that may be worth investigating further.
• Content Curation: Build a daily digest of the most interesting new products for your audience or newsletter.
• Market Trend Analysis: Analyze categories and types of products getting attention over time.

FAQ

Do I need a Product Hunt account or API key? No. The actor scrapes the public website directly.

How many products does Product Hunt feature daily? The home page typically features 10-20 products per day. The daily leaderboard expands to dozens more.

Can I scrape individual product details? This actor collects the product name and URL from the feed. For detailed info, use the returned URLs in a follow-up scraper.

Does the daily leaderboard update in real time? Product Hunt's daily leaderboard updates throughout the day based on upvotes. The weekly leaderboard aggregates the week's top products.

What if the page doesn't load any products? Product Hunt is a JavaScript-heavy SPA. If the actor returns empty results, the page may have loaded differently. Retrying usually resolves this.

Can I scrape past days or categories? The actor supports current featured, daily, and weekly pages. For historical data, consider the Product Hunt API or scheduled recurring runs.

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Actor ID: producthunt-scraper - Runtime: Node.js 20 - Type: PlaywrightCrawler