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Product Hunt Scraper API

Access any Product Hunt page using our Product Hunt Scraper API. Point one API request at a Product Hunt URL and get structured JSON back while we get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection through residential proxies. Get back fields like product name, tagline, upvote count, maker/team as structured JSON.

check_circle 1,000 free requests/month. No credit card. Residential proxies.

Request
curl "https://api.chocodata.com/api/v1/universal/get?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://www.producthunt.com/"
JSON Response
200 OK
{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "content": "parsed Product Hunt page content..."
  // + more fields
}
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Product Hunt is served through the Universal Web Scraper API

You scrape Product Hunt with Chocodata's Universal Web Scraper API: point it at any Product Hunt URL and get the page back as structured JSON. Residential proxies, rotation, and retries are handled for you, with no Product Hunt-specific setup. The same API key and credits work here as on every dedicated endpoint.

About Product Hunt

Product Hunt is a community platform where new tech products, apps, and tools are launched and ranked daily. Public product pages, daily leaderboards, topic pages, and search results expose product names, taglines, upvote counts, maker info, and category tags worth extracting.

Scraping note: The site is a JavaScript app backed by a public GraphQL API, so querying that API or rendering the page is needed to capture upvote and ranking data.

Example Product Hunt page

https://www.producthunt.com/products/example-product

Pass a URL like this as url= to the Universal Web Scraper API and get it back as JSON.

Fields you can extract from Product Hunt

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Common use: A startup-tracking tool scrapes Product Hunt daily rankings to monitor which new products are gaining the most traction.

Everything you need to scrape Product Hunt

Residential proxies keep your own IP out of every request, the JSON comes back clean, and 1,000 free requests a month let you prove product hunt scraper works before you add a card.

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Clean structured JSON

The Product Hunt page comes back as JSON in the parse mode you choose: auto, html, text, or json. No selectors to maintain for product hunt scraper.

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Bypasses CAPTCHAs and anti-bot defenses

We get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection on Product Hunt using rotating, country-matched residential proxies, so requests look like real users and your own IP stays private.

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One API call

Scraping Product Hunt is one simple API call. The same key works across our whole web scraping API: all 235 targets, any language, no SDK required.

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Geo-targeting and JS rendering

Pass a country for proxy geo-targeting and turn on JavaScript rendering when a Product Hunt page needs it. product hunt data api handles dynamic content and region-locked results.

Scrape Product Hunt in one API request

Point the Universal Web Scraper API at any Product Hunt page and get structured JSON back. You supply the URL; Chocodata handles the blocks, rotation, and retries that make scrape product hunt hard to run yourself.

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Request

curl "https://api.chocodata.com/api/v1/universal/get?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://www.producthunt.com/"

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "content": "parsed Product Hunt page content..."
  // + more fields
}

Parameters

Product Hunt routes through the Universal Web Scraper API, so the parameters are the universal ones: the URL to fetch, an optional parse mode, and an optional country for proxy geo-targeting.

Parameter Type Required Example
url string required https://example.com
parse enum optional auto
country string optional us

Enum parameters accept a fixed set of values. For example, parse accepts auto, html, text, json.

What you can build with Product Hunt data

Once the scraping API returns Product Hunt search data as clean JSON, these are the patterns teams reach for most.

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Data Aggregation

Pull Product Hunt search records into your own warehouse and analyze them on your terms.

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Market Intelligence

Track Product Hunt search data over time to spot market shifts before competitors do.

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Competitor Monitoring

Watch rivals on Product Hunt and alert your team when prices, ranks, or listings change.

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Lead Generation

Turn Product Hunt search data into targeted lead lists and feed them into your CRM.

Why developers pick Chocodata for Product Hunt

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Fast at the tail

Median 2.6 s per request with multi-tier retry, so latency stays predictable even when Product Hunt fights back.

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Parity-checked output

The Universal scraper returns the live page faithfully in your chosen parse mode.

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One key, 235 targets

The same scraping API key that scrapes Product Hunt works across every other target, with official Node, Python, and Go SDKs.

Simple pricing that scales with you

Start free with 1,000 requests a month and 5,000 credits, no credit card. Scale on monthly plans from $19, or top up pay-as-you-go at $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests. Only successful 2xx responses are billed, and every plan covers the full scraping API: all 235 targets and every endpoint.

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$19 / month

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$49 / month

$0.60 / 1k effective

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$100-$2k / month

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Pay-as-you-go top-up

$0.90 / 1,000 successful requests

Available on every plan including Free. Top up any time when included credits run out. Only 2xx responses charged. Balance never expires.

Product Hunt Scraper API FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Product Hunt?

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Scraping publicly accessible Product Hunt data is generally legal in the US under the Ninth Circuit's hiQ v. LinkedIn ruling, which held that scraping public web data does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It does not override Product Hunt's own Terms of Service, which are a contract matter, so check those for your use case and comply with data laws such as GDPR. This is general information, not legal advice.

How do I scrape Product Hunt without getting blocked?

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You scrape Product Hunt without getting blocked by sending the URL to the Universal Web Scraper API, which fetches it through rotating residential proxies and retries on soft blocks. Your own IP is never used, so Product Hunt's anti-bot layer sees ordinary residential traffic instead of a server.

What data does the Product Hunt Scraper API return?

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Through the Universal Web Scraper API you get the Product Hunt page back as JSON: rendered HTML, plain text, or auto-parsed content depending on the parse mode you pass. You choose the URL, Chocodata returns the data.

How much does the Product Hunt Scraper API cost?

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The Product Hunt Scraper API costs nothing to start: the Free plan includes 1,000 requests per month (5,000 credits) across all 235 targets. After that, monthly plans begin at $19, or you top up pay-as-you-go at $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests. One request is 5 credits, and non-2xx responses are never charged.

Do I need a Product Hunt account or login?

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No Product Hunt login is needed for public pages. You point the Universal Web Scraper API at a publicly accessible Product Hunt URL with your Chocodata API key; you do not hand over any Product Hunt credentials. Login-gated content is not supported.

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1,000 free scraping API requests on signup across all 235 targets. No credit card required.