Product Hunt Scraper

Scrape Product Hunt launches, product profiles, and daily leaderboards — name, tagline, votes, comments, topics, featured date, and daily/weekly/monthly rankings.

What you get

Launch and product data from Product Hunt. Three modes: launches (daily featured products from the homepage or any topic page), products (full product profiles with tagline, votes, and topics), and leaderboard (ranked products for a specific day or historical date range). Ideal for tracking new launches, monitoring a topic, or building historical launch datasets.

Output fields

Field	Description
name	Product name
tagline	Product tagline
url	Product Hunt URL
votes_count	Number of upvotes
comments_count	Number of comments
daily_rank	Daily ranking position
weekly_rank	Weekly ranking position
monthly_rank	Monthly ranking position
topics	Topic/category names
featured_at	ISO date the product was featured
created_at	ISO date the product was created
query	The query or topic that produced this result

Example output

{
    "name": "Notion AI",
    "tagline": "Write faster, think bigger, and be more creative",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/notion-ai",
    "votes_count": 3421,
    "comments_count": 287,
    "daily_rank": 1,
    "weekly_rank": 1,
    "monthly_rank": 3,
    "topics": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Productivity", "Writing"],
    "featured_at": "2026-04-15",
    "created_at": "2026-04-15",
    "query": "artificial-intelligence"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
queries	No	Topic slugs for launches (e.g., "artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools"), product slugs for products (e.g., "chatgpt", "notion"). Ignored in leaderboard mode. Leave empty for the homepage.
scrapeType	No	One of launches, products, leaderboard. Default launches.
maxResults	No	Maximum total results across all queries/days (1-100000). Default 15.
startDate	No	Leaderboard mode only. YYYY-MM-DD. If omitted, scrapes today only.
endDate	No	Leaderboard mode only. YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive. Defaults to startDate if only start is given.
maxPerDay	No	Leaderboard mode only. Cap results per daily leaderboard (e.g., 10 for top-10-per-day).
proxyConfiguration	No	Proxy settings. Leave default for best results.

Use cases

• Founders and makers: Monitor launches in your topic to gauge competition and timing.
• Investors: Track daily leaderboards to spot trending products before they hit mainstream press.
• Product marketers: Pull historical top-10s to study positioning patterns that win upvotes.
• Analysts and journalists: Build timelines of AI, developer-tool, or productivity launches by date range.
• Growth teams: Benchmark your own launch against same-day competitors.

Pricing

Pay-per-result pricing. Tiered discounts apply automatically based on usage volume.

Tier	Price per result
FREE	$0.003
BRONZE	$0.0025
SILVER	$0.002
GOLD	$0.0015

Limitations

• Product Hunt shows a homepage cap of ~24 launches per day — for historical depth, use leaderboard mode with a date range.
• Topic pages are paginated; very old launches on niche topics may be out of reach of the default max.
• Vote and comment counts are live values at scrape time — they change as more users engage.
• Leaderboard mode requires a date; startDate/endDate must be YYYY-MM-DD.
• Rankings only exist where Product Hunt itself exposes them (e.g., daily rank only for featured products that day).

Compared to alternatives

• vs. any Apify Store competitor: There is no comparable Product Hunt scraper on Apify. This actor fills that gap with all three modes (launches, products, leaderboard) and historical leaderboard date ranges.
• vs. Product Hunt's public API: The official GraphQL API requires OAuth and enforces strict rate limits — this actor is ready for ad-hoc research and BI pipelines without key management.

Pairs well with G2 Software Reviews Scraper for launch-to-review tracking of SaaS products over time.

FAQ

What's the difference between launches and leaderboard? launches pulls the current homepage or a topic page — great for "what's live now". leaderboard gives you the ranked top products for any specific date, which is the right mode for historical datasets.

Can I get historical launches for a given month? Yes. Use scrapeType: "leaderboard" with startDate and endDate spanning that month, plus maxPerDay to cap daily volume.

Does products mode return votes and comments too? Yes — products returns the same vote and comment counts plus full product profiles for the specific product slugs you pass.

How fresh is the data? Pulled live at run time — as fresh as Product Hunt itself.

Last verified: 2026-04

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