Product Hunt Scraper — Launches, Upvotes & Comments

Product Hunt Scraper

Get product launches, upvotes, user comments, and engagement data from any Product Hunt leaderboard. Track what's trending today, this week, this month — or go back to any date since 2013.

Unlike other Product Hunt scrapers, this one extracts full user comments with timestamps and upvote counts — perfect for sentiment analysis, community feedback research, and understanding what users really think about a product.

What data do you get?

Field	Always	Description
name	Yes	Product name
tagline	Yes	One-line product description
description	Yes	Full product description
url	Yes	Product Hunt page link
websiteUrl	Yes	Product website link
thumbnailUrl	Yes	Product thumbnail image
upvotes	Yes	Number of upvotes
commentsCount	Yes	Number of comments
reviewsRating	Yes	Average review rating (1-5)
topics	Yes	Product categories (e.g. "AI", "Developer Tools")
rank	Yes	Position on the leaderboard
period	Yes	Which leaderboard (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
launchDate	Yes	When the product launched
comments[].body	Optional	Full comment text
comments[].createdAt	Optional	Comment date and time
comments[].upvotes	Optional	Comment upvote count

How to use it

1. Pick a Leaderboard Period — daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
2. Optionally set a specific Date, Week, Month, or Year for historical data.
3. Set Maximum Products (default: 50).
4. Turn on Scrape Comments if you want user comments for each product.
5. Add your API Token for the fastest results (see below).
6. Click Start and download results from the Dataset tab.

Getting your free API token (recommended)

An API token makes runs faster and more reliable. It's free and takes 30 seconds:

1. Go to producthunt.com/v2/oauth/applications
2. Click Add an Application — name it anything, use any redirect URL
3. Click Create Token (Developer Token) — it never expires
4. Paste it into the API Token field

You can also set it once as the PH_API_TOKEN environment variable in Actor Settings, so you don't need to enter it every time.

Pricing

You pay per product scraped:

Per product	Per 1,000 products
$0.0035	$3.50

Typical costs:

What you're getting	Products	Est. Cost
Today's top 5	5	~$0.02
Today's top 10 with comments	10	~$0.05
This week's top 20	20	~$0.07
This week's top 20 with comments	20	~$0.10
This month's top 50	50	~$0.18
This month's top 50 with comments	50	~$0.25

Use cases

• Trend tracking — See what's hot on Product Hunt each day or week
• Competitor monitoring — Track launches in your space, compare upvote velocity
• Sentiment analysis — Read user comments to understand community reception
• Market research — Build datasets of launches by category, time period, or engagement
• Content & newsletters — Feed launch data into alerts, dashboards, or weekly digests
• Investment research — Spot high-traction products early, analyze seasonal patterns
• Historical analysis — Compare leaderboards across years to find trends

Input examples

Today's top products:

{
    "period": "daily",
    "maxProducts": 10
}

This week's leaderboard with comments:

{
    "period": "weekly",
    "maxProducts": 20,
    "scrapeComments": true
}

A specific date in the past:

{
    "period": "daily",
    "date": "2025-06-15",
    "maxProducts": 10
}

January 2026 monthly leaderboard:

{
    "period": "monthly",
    "month": 1,
    "year": 2026,
    "maxProducts": 50
}

Output example

{
    "name": "Figr AI",
    "tagline": "Product-aware AI that thinks through UX",
    "description": "Figr is an AI product agent for PMs. Parse your live app via Chrome extension, import from Figma...",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/figr-ai",
    "websiteUrl": "https://figr.design",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/a925c43e-5b27-4ba9-87f3-9fa5ff345335.png",
    "rank": 1,
    "period": "daily",
    "periodDate": "2026-02-17",
    "upvotes": 486,
    "commentsCount": 86,
    "reviewsRating": 5.0,
    "topics": ["User Experience", "Artificial Intelligence", "UX Design"],
    "launchDate": "2026-02-17T08:01:00Z",
    "comments": [
        {
            "body": "Congrats on the launch! The Chrome extension workflow is really interesting...",
            "createdAt": "2026-02-17T08:04:20Z",
            "upvotes": 12
        },
        {
            "body": "We've been using this for our design team and it's saved us hours...",
            "createdAt": "2026-02-17T10:22:15Z",
            "upvotes": 8
        }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-02-18T12:42:30.927Z"
}

FAQ

How many products can I get? Set maxProducts to 0 to get everything on a leaderboard. Daily leaderboards typically have 20-30 featured products. Weekly and monthly can have hundreds.

How fast is it? With an API token: 20 products in about 5 seconds. With comments: about 25 seconds for 20 products. Without a token, runs take a few minutes.

Can I go back in time? Yes. Use the date, week, month, or year fields to access any leaderboard since 2013.

Do I need an API token? Strongly recommended. It's free, takes 30 seconds to set up, and makes everything faster and more reliable. Without it, the scraper still works but runs slower.

What about maker/founder names? Product Hunt's API limits access to maker identities for privacy. You'll get usernames but names may be hidden. All product data, comments, and engagement metrics are fully available.