Product Hunt Scraper — Launches, Leaderboards & Topics 🚀

🎉 Turn every Product Hunt launch into a clean, structured dataset — leaderboards, topics & full product profiles in seconds

Built for founders, growth marketers, VCs and researchers who track new products at scale

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📋 Overview

Tracking new product launches by hand is slow — the Product Hunt Scraper pulls ranked launches, topic feeds and full product profiles into one clean dataset, ready for JSON, CSV or Excel.

Why thousands of professionals choose us:

• ✅ Two modes, one tool: a fast Overview for ranked feeds, or a full Detail profile per product
• ⚡ Fast & reliable: a daily leaderboard of ~24 launches lands in seconds
• 🎯 35+ clean fields: score, rank, comments, reviews, followers, website, social links, makers, topics, screenshots
• 💰 Pay-per-result: a generous free tier and you only pay for records you actually get
• 💎 Date-walk crawling: pull a whole range of days in one run to build a historical launch dataset
• ✨ No account or API key required — paste a date, topic or product and run

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✨ Features

• 🏆 Leaderboard mode: scrape the daily, weekly or monthly ranked board of top launches
• 📆 Date-walk: crawl N consecutive days back in a single run for a historical view
• 🏷️ Topic mode: pull every featured product in a topic feed (e.g. artificial-intelligence, developer-tools)
• 🔗 URL mode: paste any leaderboard or topic URL and scrape it directly
• 🔍 Detail mode: full product profile — reviews rating & count, followers, website, Twitter/LinkedIn/GitHub, makers, launch number, screenshots
• 📊 Rich ranking data: daily, weekly and monthly rank plus launch-day score and comment counts
• 🌍 Clean exports: JSON, CSV and Excel straight from the Apify dataset
• 🎚️ Tier-aware limits: free runs are capped, paid runs are unlimited

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🎬 Quick Start

Pick a mode, paste a date / topic / product, and run. Results stream into the dataset and you can export them in one click.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~product-hunt-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"scrapeMode": "overview", "searchMode": "byLeaderboard", "window": "daily", "maxResults": 50}'

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🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Choose a mode

Pick Overview for ranked leaderboards / topics, or Detail for full product profiles.

Step 2: Tell it what to fetch

Set a leaderboard window + date, list one or more topics, paste URLs, or list product slugs.

Step 3: Run and export

Start the run and download your results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

That's it! In under a minute, you'll have:

• A ranked list of fresh product launches
• Scores, ranks, comments and topics for each
• Clean, structured data ready for your spreadsheet or pipeline

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📥 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
scrapeMode	string	No	overview (fast & cheap) or detail (full profile)
searchMode	string	No	byLeaderboard, byTopic, byUrl, or byProduct (detail)
window	string	No	daily, weekly or monthly (leaderboard mode)
date	string	No	Anchor date YYYY-M-D for the leaderboard (defaults to today)
days	integer	No	Walk N consecutive days back (daily window)
topics	array	No	Topic slugs, e.g. artificial-intelligence
urls	array	No	Leaderboard / topic URLs to scrape
products	array	No	Product slugs or URLs (detail mode)
maxResults	integer	No	Cap the run size (FREE: 25, PAID: unlimited)

Example — daily leaderboard:

{
  "scrapeMode": "overview",
  "searchMode": "byLeaderboard",
  "window": "daily",
  "date": "2026-6-23",
  "days": 7,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example — full product profiles:

{
  "scrapeMode": "detail",
  "searchMode": "byProduct",
  "products": ["lovable", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/n8n-io"]
}

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📤 Output

Results are saved to the Apify dataset with 35+ fields including:

Field	Type	Description
productName	string	Name of the product / launch
tagline	string	One-line pitch
value / launch_day_score	number	Launch-day score (the public upvote proxy)
daily_rank / weekly_rank / monthly_rank	number	Leaderboard ranks
comments_count	number	Number of comments
reviews_rating	number	Average review rating (0–5)
reviews_count	number	Total reviews
followers_count	number	Product followers
website_url	string	The product's website
twitter_url / linkedin_url / github_url	string	Social and code links
makers	array	Maker handles credited on the launch
topics	array	Topic / category tags
images	array	Logo, thumbnail and screenshot URLs
url	string	Canonical Product Hunt URL

Example:

{
  "productName": "Lovable",
  "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
  "reviews_rating": 4.69,
  "reviews_count": 191,
  "followers_count": 43211,
  "website_url": "https://lovable.dev/",
  "twitter_url": "https://twitter.com/lovable",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovable-dev",
  "launch_number": 10,
  "topics": ["Android", "Design Tools", "Development"],
  "makers": ["antonosika"],
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/lovable"
}

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💼 Use Cases & Examples

1. New-product discovery

Founders and product teams who want to see what launched today.

Input: A daily leaderboard window Output: A ranked list of fresh launches with scores and taglines Use: Spot rising tools and trends before they go mainstream

2. Competitor & launch tracking

Growth marketers monitoring a category.

Input: A topic feed (e.g. developer-tools) Output: Every featured product in that topic Use: Build a watchlist of competitors and adjacent products

3. Lead generation for makers

Agencies prospecting newly launched startups.

Input: Product profiles in detail mode Output: Website, social links and maker handles per product Use: Build a contact list of founders right after launch

4. Market & trend research

Analysts and VCs sizing a space.

Input: A weekly or monthly leaderboard date-walk Output: A historical dataset of top launches over time Use: Quantify launch volume, scores and topic momentum

5. Building a product-launch data feed

Builders powering a newsletter or dashboard.

Input: A scheduled daily leaderboard run Output: A fresh, structured feed of new launches every day Use: Automate a "today on Product Hunt" digest

6. SaaS & startup datasets

Researchers compiling a startup index.

Input: Topic + leaderboard scrapes across many days Output: A deduplicated dataset of products with scores and links Use: Train models or enrich a CRM with launch data

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🔗 Integration Examples

JavaScript/Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('sian.agency/product-hunt-scraper').call({
  scrapeMode: 'overview',
  searchMode: 'byLeaderboard',
  window: 'daily',
  maxResults: 50,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('sian.agency/product-hunt-scraper').call(
    run_input={
        'scrapeMode': 'detail',
        'searchMode': 'byProduct',
        'products': ['lovable', 'n8n-io'],
    }
)

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item)

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~product-hunt-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"scrapeMode": "overview", "searchMode": "byTopic", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"]}'

Automation Workflows (N8N / Zapier / Make)

1. Trigger: Schedule (e.g. daily) or HTTP request
2. HTTP Request: Call the actor API
3. Process: Handle the JSON results
4. Action: Save to a sheet, notify a channel, or enrich a CRM

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📊 Performance & Pricing

FREE Tier (Try It Now)

• 25 records per run — full feature access, same quality
• No credit card required
• Perfect for testing and small projects

PAID Tier (Production Ready)

• Unlimited records per run
• Date-walk a full range of leaderboard days in one go
• Pay-per-result: only charged for records you actually extract

💰 Transparent pay-per-result pricing — a cheap, high-volume overview event and a richer detail event, so you only pay for the depth you need.

🔗 View current pricing

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many records can I extract? A: FREE tier: 25 per run. PAID tier: unlimited.

Q: What's the difference between Overview and Detail? A: Overview returns ranked launches from a leaderboard or topic (score, rank, comments, topics). Detail fetches a full profile per product (reviews, followers, website, social links, makers, screenshots).

Q: Can I scrape a specific day's leaderboard? A: Yes — set a date and window, and optionally walk several days back in one run.

Q: What output formats are available? A: JSON, CSV and Excel — export directly from the Apify dataset.

Q: Do I need an account or API key for the source site? A: No — just run the actor.

Q: Is this legal? A: Yes — it only extracts publicly available data. See the legal section below.

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🐛 Troubleshooting

No records returned

• Check the date is valid and not in the future
• For topic mode, confirm the slug matches the topic URL's last path segment

Detail mode returns fewer rows than products requested

• A product slug may be misspelled or the product may have been removed — check the slug

Want more than 25 records

• Upgrade to the PAID tier for unlimited records per run

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⚖️ Is it legal to scrape data?

Our actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe.

However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

You can also read Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Trademark notice: Product Hunt is a trademark of Product Hunt, Inc. This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Product Hunt, Inc. All product and company names are the property of their respective owners.

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🤝 Support

Join our active support community

• For issues or questions, open an issue in the actor's repository
• Check SIÁN Agency Store for more automation tools
• 📧 apify@sian-agency.online

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