Product Hunt Scraper

Scrape Product Hunt launches in bulk — names, taglines, descriptions, upvotes, comments, review counts & ratings, topics, makers, the hunter, and launch dates — straight from Product Hunt's official public API. Filter by topic and date range, sort by ranking / votes / newest, and export thousands of launches to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Perfect for market research, competitor tracking, lead generation, trend analysis, and building datasets of new products.

What you get (one row per launch)

Field	Description
id	Product Hunt post ID
name	Launch / product name
tagline	One-line pitch shown on the card
description	Longer product description
slug	URL slug
url	The producthunt.com launch page
website	The product's own website (Product Hunt "visit" link)
votesCount	Number of upvotes
commentsCount	Number of comments
reviewsCount	Number of reviews
reviewsRating	Average review rating (0–5)
topics	Topic names the launch is filed under
topicSlugs	Topic slugs (for re-querying)
makers	List of makers {name, username}
makerUsernames	Maker usernames only
hunterName / hunterUsername	Who hunted (posted) the launch
thumbnailUrl	Launch thumbnail image
createdAt	ISO timestamp the launch was posted
featuredAt	ISO timestamp it was featured (if featured)
postedDate	YYYY-MM-DD the launch was posted
query	Which topic / feed produced the row
scrapedAt	When this actor fetched the row

Authentication — free, one-time, ~2 minutes

Product Hunt's data comes from its official API, which needs a free access token (this keeps the actor reliable — the public website itself is behind a bot wall, the API is not). Choose the easiest option:

Option A — Developer Token (easiest):

1. Go to https://www.producthunt.com/v2/oauth/applications
2. Click Add an application — give it any name and any redirect URL (e.g. https://example.com).
3. Open the application and click Create Developer Token.
4. Paste that token into the developerToken field. Done.

Option B — API Client ID + Secret: from the same application page, copy the API Key (Client ID) and API Secret into apiClientId and apiClientSecret. The actor fetches a read-only token for you automatically (OAuth client_credentials — no login).

Input example

{
  "developerToken": "YOUR_PRODUCT_HUNT_DEVELOPER_TOKEN",
  "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools", "productivity"],
  "sortBy": "ranking",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 500,
  "maxResults": 1500
}

Pull every launch in a date window instead:

{
  "developerToken": "YOUR_PRODUCT_HUNT_DEVELOPER_TOKEN",
  "postedAfter": "2024-01-01",
  "postedBefore": "2024-12-31",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5000
}

Leave topics empty to scan the whole global launch feed. Add topic slugs (from a topic's URL, e.g. producthunt.com/topics/developer-tools) to scrape each topic deep and independently — more topics = more launches.

Output sample

{
  "id": "123456",
  "name": "Acme AI Writer",
  "tagline": "Write blog posts 10x faster with AI",
  "description": "Acme AI Writer helps you draft, edit and publish content.",
  "slug": "acme-ai-writer",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acme-ai-writer",
  "website": "https://www.producthunt.com/r/abc123",
  "votesCount": 842,
  "commentsCount": 57,
  "reviewsCount": 12,
  "reviewsRating": 4.6,
  "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Writing"],
  "topicSlugs": ["artificial-intelligence", "writing"],
  "makers": [{ "name": "Jane Maker", "username": "janemaker" }],
  "makerUsernames": ["janemaker"],
  "hunterName": "Hunter Harry",
  "hunterUsername": "harryhunts",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/thumb.png",
  "createdAt": "2024-06-01T07:01:00Z",
  "featuredAt": "2024-06-01T07:01:00Z",
  "postedDate": "2024-06-01",
  "query": "topic:artificial-intelligence",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-19T00:00:00Z"
}

Use cases

• Market & trend research — track which products, topics and categories are getting traction over time.
• Competitor monitoring — watch every new launch in your space (your topics) and how much attention it gets.
• Lead generation — build lists of makers and new products in target topics.
• Content & newsletters — power a "top launches this week/month" digest with structured data.
• Datasets — assemble a historical corpus of launches for analysis or ML.

FAQ

Do I need a paid Product Hunt account? No. A free account and a free developer token are enough.

Why does it use the API instead of scraping the website? The producthunt.com website is protected by a Cloudflare challenge that blocks non-browser scrapers. The official API returns the same launch data as clean, stable JSON — far more reliable and lower-maintenance.

How many launches can I get? Thousands per run. Set maxResultsPerQuery (per topic / feed) and an optional overall maxResults. The actor paginates deep automatically and paces itself against Product Hunt's rate limits.

How is it billed? Pay-per-result — you're charged once per launch returned to your dataset. Failed/auth-error and empty pages are never charged.

Can I get every launch from a specific day/month/year? Yes — set postedAfter and postedBefore (format YYYY-MM-DD) and sort by newest.

What if I hit a rate limit? The actor reads Product Hunt's rate-limit headers and automatically waits for the window to reset, then continues — no errors, it just paces itself.