Product Hunt Scraper API — Launch Intelligence & Monitor

Why use this Actor?

Product Hunt scraper and launch monitor for startup research. Collect launches, ranks, upvotes, comments, makers, topics, media and links; optionally enrich public product pages with social, follower, review, funding, team and YC signals when exposed.

Features

• Maximum launches — Maximum launches. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Include keywords — Keep launches whose title/content/external links contain at least one keyword.
• Exclude keywords — Exclude keywords. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Only launches from last N hours (0 = off) — Only launches from last N hours (0 = off). Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Persistent monitor key — Reuse on schedules to mark previously seen launches.
• Emit only unseen launches — Emit only unseen launches. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Include raw feed HTML — Include raw feed HTML. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Request timeout — Request timeout. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Retries — Retries. Configure this value to control the Actor run; bounded defaults are chosen for reliable production use.
• Enrich public product pages — Fetch a bounded set of public Product Hunt product pages and extract metadata such as tagline, image and public vote/comment counts when exposed.
• Maximum enriched launches — Cap public product-page enrichment requests.
• Enrichment concurrency — Parallel Product Hunt product-page enrichment requests.

Use cases

• Startup discovery.
• Competitor launch tracking.
• Vc and market research.
• Daily product monitoring.

Example input

{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "sinceHours": 0,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "includeContentHtml": false,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 25,
  "retries": 2
}

Pricing & cost control

Use the bounded input limits and filters to keep runs predictable. Pay-per-result Actors only charge primary result rows; summary, status and monitoring metadata are designed to add context without inflating result volume.

FAQ

What is this Actor for?
It is designed for startup discovery, competitor launch tracking, VC and market research.

Can I run it on a schedule?
Yes. You can schedule Actor runs on Apify and send the resulting dataset into automations, webhooks, storage, or downstream APIs.

How do I control cost and run size?
Use the input limits and filters shown in the Actor input form. The Actor applies bounded defaults and hard caps so large jobs remain predictable.

Search keywords

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Turn Product Hunt's public Atom launch feed into a clean, low-cost monitoring dataset for startup discovery, VC deal flow, competitor tracking, newsletters and market research.

Unlike leaderboard scrapers that require brittle page parsing, this Actor uses the public Product Hunt feed directly. It does not require a Product Hunt login, browser, cookie or developer token. That makes it especially suitable for frequent scheduled runs.

Features

• Public Product Hunt Atom feed.
• Product title, Product Hunt URL, publication/update timestamps and author.
• Cleaned content text plus external links and images extracted from the feed entry.
• Include and exclude keyword filters applied before result charging.
• Optional last-N-hours filter.
• Persistent monitorKey that marks previously seen launch IDs.
• onlyNew mode for alerts, Slack/Zapier workflows and daily digests.
• Deterministic deduplication, retries, timeouts and a free summary row.
• Optional raw content HTML for advanced pipelines.

Example

{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeKeywords": ["AI", "developer"],
  "monitorKey": "daily-ai-products",
  "onlyNew": true
}

A launch row is ready for JSON, CSV, spreadsheets, a CRM or an LLM pipeline. External links discovered inside the public feed entry are preserved separately so downstream systems do not need to parse HTML again.

Monitoring strategy

Schedule the Actor every hour or every day with the same monitorKey. The Actor keeps a bounded persistent set of launch IDs and can return only entries it has not seen before. This avoids repeatedly billing and processing the same launch in downstream workflows.

Scope

This product intentionally focuses on the reliable public launch feed rather than claiming historical leaderboard coverage that depends on Product Hunt's changing web application. Use a leaderboard-specific Actor when historical ranking is the requirement; use this Actor when fresh launches, monitoring reliability and low execution cost matter most.

Use public Product Hunt data responsibly and comply with applicable Product Hunt terms and privacy requirements.

Extended capabilities

• Combine the live Product Hunt feed with optional product, topic, category, or leaderboard source pages.
• Extract makers, topics, media URLs, engagement counts, rank when exposed, website metadata, and launch details.
• Monitor new launches with persistent state and source-page diagnostics.