Product Hunt Scraper: Daily Launches and Upvotes

Hosted product hunt scraper that pulls the daily, weekly, or monthly Product Hunt leaderboard as structured JSON, votes, comments, topics, slugs, all clean. Run it from the Apify Store with one click, or call it from your own service via the Apify API. Pay per launch row, not per month.

If you've been searching for an apify product hunt scraper that's actually maintained (most existing ones break when Product Hunt ships a React update), or for a product hunt scraper github repo that doesn't rot the moment the site ships a UI change, this Actor is the hosted alternative.

What you get

• Full leaderboard data, rank, product name, URL, slug, tagline, topic chips, vote count, comment count.
• Three time windows, daily, weekly, or monthly leaderboard from any historical date.
• Up to 100 launches per run, covers the full daily leaderboard plus the long tail.
• Structured JSON output, clean records ready for analytics, alerts, or pipelines.
• Pay only for what you scrape, pricing scales per launch returned. No subscription.

Why scrape product hunt top products

Product Hunt is the single best signal for what new SaaS, dev tools, AI products, and consumer apps are gaining traction this week. VCs, market researchers, growth teams, and competitive intelligence analysts watch the leaderboard daily for one reason: it's a leading indicator of where attention and capital are about to flow.

But Product Hunt's React-based UI doesn't expose a public API for the leaderboard rankings, and existing product hunt scraper open-source repos rot fast, Product Hunt ships UI updates frequently and the maintainers of one-off GitHub scrapers usually move on. This hosted Actor solves both problems: maintained infrastructure, structured output, and nothing for you to operate.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
period	string	daily	Leaderboard period, one of daily, weekly, monthly.
date	string	yesterday	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) or yesterday/today. For weekly/monthly the date selects the period containing it.
limit	integer	30	Max launches to return (1–100).

Output

Every run pushes results to the Apify dataset as JSON records, one per launch:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "Scholé",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/schole-2",
  "slug": "schole-2",
  "tagline": "Turn everyday work into personalized AI learning",
  "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Online Learning"],
  "comments": 34,
  "votes": 273,
  "period": "daily",
  "date": "2026-05-02",
  "leaderboard_url": "https://www.producthunt.com/leaderboard/daily/2026/5/2",
  "fetched_in_seconds": 1.4
}

You can:

• Download the dataset as JSON, JSONL, CSV, or Excel from the Apify console
• Stream results via the Apify API into your CRM, Slack, or analytics warehouse
• Pipe to webhooks, S3, BigQuery, or any of Apify's 30+ integrations
• Diff today's run against yesterday's to detect new entries and ranking shifts

Use cases for the product hunt scraper

VC deal-flow monitoring

Run the Actor daily and pipe the top 10 launches into a Slack channel. Topic-filter for the categories you invest in (Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Productivity). You'll see new traction signals 24–48 hours before they hit the curated newsletters.

Competitive intelligence

If your category is on Product Hunt, schedule a weekly run filtered to your top topics. New entrants ranking above 20 votes are worth a 15-minute teardown, the tagline and topic chips give you their positioning vocabulary cheaply.

Content marketing input

Scraping the daily leaderboard for a specific topic (e.g. Artificial Intelligence) gives you a constantly-refreshing list of products to write about, comparison guides for, or include in roundups. The taglines surface the exact value props the founders chose to lead with.

Trend detection across time

Pull the monthly leaderboard for the past 12 months. The shift in topic-chip distribution (e.g. AI rising, Crypto falling) is one of the cleanest, most current signals for B2B SaaS thematic trends.

How it compares

Alternatives are either no-code monitors that need an account and credits, or GitHub scrapers you run and patch yourself as Product Hunt ships UI updates. This Actor is hosted and returns leaderboard rows as JSON per run.

	No account or key	Hosted for you	JSON output	Usage-based, no monthly plan
This Actor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Browse.ai Product Hunt	No, account	Yes	Yes	Credit plans
ProductHunt-scraper (GitHub, fernandod1)	Yes	No, you self-host	Yes	Free, but you maintain it

FAQ

Is this product hunt scraper free?

The Actor itself is hosted on Apify with pay-per-launch pricing, you only pay for the launches you actually receive. There's no monthly subscription. A typical daily-leaderboard run (~25 launches) costs a fraction of a dollar.

How does this compare to an open-source product hunt scraper github repo?

Most open-source PH scrapers haven't been updated in 12+ months and break when Product Hunt ships a React UI update. This Actor is hosted, monitored, and patched as PH evolves, you don't run anything yourself.

Can I scrape product hunt top products from a specific date?

Yes, pass any ISO date in the date field. Daily leaderboards are available going back to PH's launch in 2013. Weekly and monthly use the period containing the date you provide.

How fast is it, and will Product Hunt rate-limit me?

A daily leaderboard is a single request and completes in under two seconds. Nothing for you to configure, and at one request per run there is no rate limit to work around.

How many launches does one run return?

The leading stretch of the board: 16 to 17 launches on a typical weekday, in rank order from number one. A quiet day returns fewer because fewer launched, not because anything was missed. Saturday 6 September 2026 had seven, and seven is what comes back.

On Apify's free plan a run is capped at the top 10. That is the plan's limit rather than the Actor's, and you are billed for what is delivered, not what was read. On any paid plan the full board comes back.

When a board runs longer than one page carries, every row is flagged with more_beyond_this_page: true, so a partial list never has to be mistaken for a complete one.

Can I get launch detail beyond what's on the leaderboard?

The Actor returns leaderboard data only. If you need per-product detail (full description, maker info, comments, related links), pair it with a follow-up scrape on each launch's url.

Can I run this on a schedule?

Yes, Apify has built-in scheduling. Most teams schedule a daily run at 00:30 UTC (just after the daily leaderboard locks at midnight UTC) and pipe the result into Slack, Notion, or their CRM.

Pricing

This product hunt scraper uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing, every successful launch row costs a small fixed amount, so your bill scales linearly with usage. There's no monthly subscription and no minimum spend. See the Apify Store page for the current per-launch price.