# Product Hunt Launch Tracker (`second_coming/product-hunt-tracker`) Actor

Track Product Hunt launches: daily top products with taglines, descriptions, votes, comments, maker info, category filtering, funding detection, and trend scoring. Scrapes the public website — no API token required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/second\_coming/product-hunt-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Richard P](https://apify.com/second_coming) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### Product Hunt Launch Tracker

Track Product Hunt launches: daily top products with taglines, descriptions, votes, comments, maker info, category filtering, funding detection, and trend scoring. Scrapes the public website — no API token required.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
| ----- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| categories | array |  | Only include products tagged with at least one of these Product Hunt topics (slu |
| maxResults | integer | 20 | Maximum number of products to return after filtering |
| minVotes | integer | 0 | Only include products with at least this many votes (0 = no filter). Note: on la |
| includeComments | boolean | True | Include comment counts and (when available) featured comment text for each produ |
| detectFunding | boolean | True | Scan product name, tagline, description and maker headlines for funding keywords |
| launchDate | string |  | Which day's launches to fetch, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today (Prod |
| fetchProductDetails | boolean | True | Visit each product page to enrich results with full description and maker info.  |
| webhookUrl | string |  | Optional URL to POST the final filtered results to as JSON. Useful for Slack/Tea |

### Output

Each run produces structured dataset records with timestamps and per-query results. See the dataset schema for exact fields.

### Pricing

This Actor is charged per event: $0.02 per run.

# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Only include products tagged with at least one of these Product Hunt topics (slug or name, case-insensitive, e.g. 'artificial-intelligence', 'developer-tools', 'saas'). Leave empty to include all products.

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

Maximum number of products to return after filtering

## `minVotes` (type: `integer`):

Only include products with at least this many votes (0 = no filter). Note: on launch day, vote counts are hidden by Product Hunt until the day ends — historical days always have votes.

## `includeComments` (type: `boolean`):

Include comment counts and (when available) featured comment text for each product

## `detectFunding` (type: `boolean`):

Scan product name, tagline, description and maker headlines for funding keywords (seed, pre-seed, Series A/B/C, raised, funding, backed by, YC, etc.) and flag matching products

## `launchDate` (type: `string`):

Which day's launches to fetch, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today (Product Hunt timezone, America/Los\_Angeles). Use a past date for finalized vote counts and daily ranks.

## `fetchProductDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Visit each product page to enrich results with full description and maker info. Slower but more complete. If disabled, description/makers will be empty.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional URL to POST the final filtered results to as JSON. Useful for Slack/Teams/Zapier integrations.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "artificial-intelligence",
    "developer-tools"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "minVotes": 0,
  "includeComments": true,
  "detectFunding": true,
  "fetchProductDetails": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "categories": [],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "minVotes": 0,
    "includeComments": true,
    "detectFunding": true,
    "launchDate": "",
    "fetchProductDetails": true,
    "webhookUrl": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("second_coming/product-hunt-tracker").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 = {
    "categories": [],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "minVotes": 0,
    "includeComments": True,
    "detectFunding": True,
    "launchDate": "",
    "fetchProductDetails": True,
    "webhookUrl": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("second_coming/product-hunt-tracker").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 '{
  "categories": [],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "minVotes": 0,
  "includeComments": true,
  "detectFunding": true,
  "launchDate": "",
  "fetchProductDetails": true,
  "webhookUrl": ""
}' |
apify call second_coming/product-hunt-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/MGhSbLsgcwkookQh3/builds/LYmvPC9BMXScW58ad/openapi.json