# Product Hunt Scraper: Launches, Votes, Makers & Websites (`zaiq/product-hunt-scraper`) Actor

Product Hunt daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards with every launch's votes, comments, rank, topics and tagline; plus product pages with website, description, makers, hunter, followers, rating, reviews, socials, pricing, promo code, team size and funding.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zaiq/product-hunt-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Zaiq](https://apify.com/zaiq) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.40 / 1,000 launches

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Product Hunt Scraper: daily, weekly and monthly launches with votes, makers and websites

Get **Product Hunt leaderboards** for any **day, week or month**: every launch's **name, tagline, votes, comments, daily, weekly and monthly rank, topics and launch time**, featured launches only or **every launch**. Turn on **Open each product** for the **website, description, makers (with their headlines), hunter, followers, rating, reviews, social profiles, categories, pricing, launch promo code, team size and funding**.

Built for **startup lead lists**, **VC and market research**, **competitor and launch tracking**, **newsletters** and **growth teams** who want each day's launches in a sheet or CRM. Signed out, no Product Hunt account or API token.

### What you get

| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Launch rows | `position`, `name`, `tagline`, `votes`, `launchDayVotes`, `comments`, `dailyRank`, `weeklyRank`, `monthlyRank`, `topics`, `launchedAt`, `featured`, `thumbnail`, `postSlug`, `productSlug`, `url`, `leaderboard`, `period` |
| Product rows | `name`, `tagline`, `description`, `website`, `domain`, `followers`, `reviewsRating`, `reviews`, `categories`, `topics`, `socials` (X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub...), `iosApp`, `androidApp`, `teamSize`, `funding`, `yCombinator`, `launches`, `alternatives` |
| People and offer | `makers` (name, username, headline, profile), `hunter`, `pricing` (free, free options, paid), `promo` (text and code), `launch` (votes, comments, rank, date) |

### What people use it for

- **Startup lead lists:** every new product with its website, makers and social profiles, every day
- **Launch tracking:** votes, comments and ranks for any day, week or month, to benchmark your own launch
- **Market research:** which topics and categories launch and win, month by month
- **VC sourcing:** new products with followers, reviews, team size, funding and Y Combinator flag
- **Newsletters and digests:** the top launches of the day with taglines, links and thumbnails
- **Deal hunting:** launch promo codes and pricing for new tools

### How to use it

1. Pick a **leaderboard** (daily, weekly or monthly) and one or more **dates**.
2. Keep **Featured launches only** on for the leaderboard, or turn it off for every launch.
3. Turn on **Open each product** for websites and makers, then click **Start**. Schedule it daily for a launch feed.

### Input

| Field | Example | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Leaderboard | Daily | Daily, weekly, monthly, or none (product links only) |
| Dates | `2026-10-11` | The day, or the week or month that contains it; empty = yesterday |
| Featured launches only | on | Off = every launch, not only featured |
| Launches per leaderboard | `50` | Up to 2,000 |
| Open each product | off | Website, makers, socials, followers, reviews, promo; charged per product |
| Product links | `https://www.producthunt.com/products/<slug>` | Links or slugs, read in full |

### Output

Each result is one row in the run's dataset (download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the API). An example row (values shortened):

```json
{
  "kind": "launch",
  "position": 1,
  "name": "Sample App",
  "tagline": "An AI copilot for your weekly planning",
  "votes": 271,
  "launchDayVotes": 275,
  "votesHidden": false,
  "comments": 38,
  "dailyRank": 1,
  "weeklyRank": 21,
  "monthlyRank": 29,
  "topics": [
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Productivity"
  ],
  "launchedAt": "2026-10-11T00:01:00-07:00",
  "featured": true,
  "productSlug": "sample-app",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/sample-app?launch=sample-app",
  "leaderboard": "daily",
  "period": "2026-10-11"
}
```

A record named `SUMMARY` in the run's key-value store says what each input returned, with any notes (for example an account that does not exist), what was charged and how much traffic the run used.

### Pricing

- **$0.003 per launch** from a leaderboard
- **$0.006 per product page**, read in full (website, makers, socials, followers, reviews, promo)
- Products that don't exist are free

What typical jobs cost at the list price:

| Job | Cost |
|---|---|
| Yesterday's featured leaderboard (about 30 launches) | $0.09 |
| The same, with every product opened | $0.27 |
| Every launch of a month, about 2,000 | $6 |
| A daily launch feed with products, for a month | about $8 |

On Apify's Scale and Business plans the per-event prices are lower (Store discounts). Set **Maximum cost per run** and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached: you never pay more than that.

### Tips

- For a daily lead feed, schedule a run each morning with the daily leaderboard, an empty date (yesterday) and **Open each product** on.
- Launch-day votes are hidden by Product Hunt for the first hours; run for yesterday for final numbers.
- Weekly and monthly leaderboards rank the best launches of the period; turn off **Featured launches only** for all of them.

### Use it through the API

**Python**

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("zaiq/product-hunt-scraper").call(run_input={"leaderboard": "daily", "dates": ["2026-10-11"], "maxLaunches": 30, "includeDetails": true})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)
```

**JavaScript**

```js
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('zaiq/product-hunt-scraper').call({"leaderboard": "daily", "dates": ["2026-10-11"], "maxLaunches": 30, "includeDetails": true});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

**HTTP (one call, results back)**

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zaiq~product-hunt-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"leaderboard": "daily", "dates": ["2026-10-11"], "maxLaunches": 30, "includeDetails": true}'
```

### Integrations and schedules

- **Schedules:** run it every hour, day or week from the Apify Console (Schedules) and keep a history of results.
- **Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable:** connect it through Apify's integrations, or send each finished run to a **webhook**.
- **Datasets:** results stay in the run's dataset; export them or read them by API whenever you need them.

### Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Add Apify's MCP server (`https://mcp.apify.com`) to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. The agent can find this Actor and run it for you: ask it for "yesterday's top 20 Product Hunt launches with their websites and makers". AI agents can also pay for runs directly through Apify's agentic payments.

### Limits

- Only what Product Hunt shows signed-out visitors; maker emails are not on Product Hunt and are not given.
- Vote counts are hidden by Product Hunt during the first hours of a launch day; those rows say `votesHidden`.
- Weeks follow the ISO calendar (Monday to Sunday).

### FAQ

**Do I need a Product Hunt account or API token?**

No. Everything comes from Product Hunt's public pages.

**Can I get every launch of a day, not only the featured ones?**

Yes: turn off **Featured launches only**.

**Does it give the makers?**

Yes, with **Open each product**: each maker's name, username, headline and profile link, plus the hunter.

**Does it give the website?**

Yes, with **Open each product**: the product's website and domain, its social profiles and app store links.

**How far back can I go?**

Any date Product Hunt has a leaderboard for.

### Related Actors from Zaiq

- [contact-details-extractor](https://apify.com/zaiq/contact-details-extractor): emails and phones from the launches' websites
- [tiktok-ads-library-scraper](https://apify.com/zaiq/tiktok-ads-library-scraper): what new products advertise on TikTok
- [google-trends-scraper](https://apify.com/zaiq/google-trends-scraper): search interest in a product or category

### Support

Questions, a site that changed, or a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor's **Issues** tab: we answer there, usually within a day.

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# Actor input Schema

## `leaderboard` (type: `string`):

Which Product Hunt leaderboard to read.

## `dates` (type: `array`):

One date per leaderboard, YYYY-MM-DD (the day, or the week or month that contains it). Empty = yesterday.

## `featuredOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Product Hunt's featured leaderboard. Turn off for every launch of the day, week or month.

## `maxLaunches` (type: `integer`):

The most launches to read from each leaderboard.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also read each launch's product page: website, makers, followers, reviews, socials, pricing, promo code. Charged per product.

## `products` (type: `array`):

Product Hunt product links or slugs (producthunt.com/products/<slug>) to read in full.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "leaderboard": "daily",
  "featuredOnly": true,
  "maxLaunches": 50,
  "includeDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Dataset: the results.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

What each input returned, and notes.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zaiq/product-hunt-scraper").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zaiq/product-hunt-scraper").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 '{}' |
apify call zaiq/product-hunt-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/TLD2SW0SUcoNCeJe3/builds/x8Beo5VV87DMzA8Zr/openapi.json