# Product Hunt Launches Scraper (`roei-data/product-hunt-launches`) Actor

Daily, weekly and monthly Product Hunt leaderboards with votes, ranks, comments and topics, plus optional product details (website, description, rating). Pay per launch.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/roei-data/product-hunt-launches.md
- **Developed by:** [Roei Amos](https://apify.com/roei-data) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 88.9% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Product Hunt Launches Scraper

Get every day's top Product Hunt launches as a spreadsheet, JSON or API feed. Each launch comes with its upvotes, rank, comments, topics and, optionally, the product website. Runs take seconds and cost $1.50 per 1,000 launches.

### What you can use it for

- **Lead lists of new SaaS.** Every day's launches with their websites, ready for outreach or CRM import.
- **Competitor and market tracking.** See which launches hit the top in your category (AI, developer tools, marketing) each week.
- **Launch benchmarks.** Find out how many upvotes it took to reach #1, #5 or #10 on any day before you launch.
- **Daily feed for newsletters, Slack or n8n.** Schedule it with no dates and each run adds yesterday's leaderboard.
- **AI agents.** Call it as a tool through Apify MCP to answer questions like "What launched on Product Hunt this week?".

### How it works

Pick a daily, weekly or monthly leaderboard and a date range. Turn on **Include product details** to add the product website, description, review rating, review count and followers.

Each leaderboard page returns the featured launches Product Hunt shows on it, usually the top ~20 per day. It uses plain HTTP with no browser, so runs are fast and cheap.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| `period` | string | Which leaderboard to read. | "daily" |
| `startDate` | string | First day to cover (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to the end date. |  |
| `endDate` | string | Last day to cover (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to yesterday. |  |
| `includeDetails` | boolean | Also open each product page for website, description, rating, reviews and followers (one extra request per launch). | false |
| `maxResults` | integer | Stop after this many launches. 0 means no limit. You are charged per launch. | 100 |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Product Hunt blocks unproxied cloud traffic; the Apify datacenter proxy works. | {"useApifyProxy":true} |

### Output

Each result is one dataset item:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `id` | string | Product Hunt post id |
| `name` | string | Launch name |
| `tagline` | string | One-line tagline |
| `url` | string | Launch (post) page |
| `productUrl` | string, null | Product page |
| `votes` | integer | Current upvotes |
| `launchDayVotes` | integer, null | Upvotes on launch day |
| `comments` | integer, null | Comment count |
| `rank` | integer, null | Rank on the requested leaderboard |
| `dailyRank` | integer, null | Daily rank |
| `weeklyRank` | integer, null | Weekly rank |
| `monthlyRank` | integer, null | Monthly rank |
| `topics` | array | Topic names |
| `featuredAt` | string, null | Featured timestamp |
| `thumbnailUrl` | string, null | Logo/thumbnail |
| `period` | string | daily, weekly or monthly |
| `leaderboard` | string | Leaderboard key, e.g. 2026-10-10 or 2026-40 |
| `website` | string, null | Product website (details only) |
| `description` | string, null | Product description (details only) |
| `rating` | number, null | Review rating (details only) |
| `reviewsCount` | integer, null | Review count (details only) |
| `followers` | integer, null | Followers (details only) |
| `screenshots` | array | Up to 5 screenshot URLs (details only) |

#### Example item

```json
{
  "id": "1257662",
  "name": "Onepin",
  "tagline": "AI voiceover with every name, price and date said right",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/onepin",
  "productUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/onepin",
  "votes": 435,
  "launchDayVotes": 430,
  "comments": 107,
  "rank": 1,
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": 7,
  "monthlyRank": 9,
  "topics": [
    "Developer Tools",
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Audio"
  ],
  "featuredAt": "2026-10-10T00:01:00-07:00",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/25268265-e582-4351-8a6e-1f94e6959d71.png",
  "period": "daily",
  "leaderboard": "2026-10-10"
}
```

#### Example input

```json
{
  "period": "daily",
  "startDate": "2026-10-10",
  "endDate": "2026-10-10",
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$1.50 per 1,000 results**. You are charged once per item in the dataset (event `result`), plus Apify's small per-run start fee. Platform compute is included.
Set **Max results** or a maximum run cost to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when either is reached.

### FAQ

#### How many launches do I get per day?

The launches Product Hunt shows on that leaderboard page, usually the top 17-20 featured launches per page. For a full month of daily launches, set a date range: each day is one page.

#### Do I need a proxy?

Keep the default Apify datacenter proxy on. Product Hunt's Cloudflare blocks unproxied cloud traffic; the Actor retries blocked requests on fresh IPs automatically.

#### Can I run it every day?

Yes. Schedule it with no dates: it defaults to yesterday's leaderboard, so each run adds one day.

#### Is scraping Product Hunt allowed?

The Actor reads only public pages and does not log in or collect personal data beyond what Product Hunt shows publicly. Check that your use complies with Product Hunt's terms and the laws that apply to you.

### Reliability

Runs that return no data, mostly incomplete items, or mostly failed requests are marked **FAILED** with a reason instead of succeeding with an empty dataset. Each run stores a `RUN_SUMMARY` record in its key-value store.

# Actor input Schema

## `period` (type: `string`):

Which leaderboard to read.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

First day to cover (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to the end date.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Last day to cover (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to yesterday.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also open each product page for website, description, rating, reviews and followers (one extra request per launch).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many launches. 0 means no limit. You are charged per launch.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Product Hunt blocks unproxied cloud traffic; the Apify datacenter proxy works.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "period": "daily",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results in the default dataset.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Counts, retries and any problems detected in this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("roei-data/product-hunt-launches").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("roei-data/product-hunt-launches").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call roei-data/product-hunt-launches --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,roei-data/product-hunt-launches"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ZQcmTcff3RF5KkVIA/builds/Seu8GOCgooqiMcTqs/openapi.json