Track Every Product Hunt Launch Programmatically with This API

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If you've ever wanted to monitor Product Hunt launches without manually scrolling through the site every day, there's now an API for that.

What Is the Product Hunt Launch Tracker?

The Product Hunt Launch Tracker API gives you structured access to daily product launches, including upvote counts, product descriptions, and maker profiles. It's built for developers who want to integrate Product Hunt data into dashboards, market research tools, competitor trackers, or trend analysis pipelines.

Instead of scraping the site yourself and dealing with rate limits, anti-bot measures, and DOM changes, you get a clean REST endpoint that returns JSON.

How It Works

The main endpoint accepts an optional date parameter in YYYY-MM-DD format. If you omit it, you get today's launches.

GET /api/daily/products?date=2026-03-21

That's it. One endpoint, one optional parameter, structured data back.

Code Example

Here's how to fetch today's Product Hunt launches using JavaScript:

const response = await fetch(
  'https://yelp-ph-scraper-production.up.railway.app/api/daily/products',
  {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
  }
);

const launches = await response.json();

launches.forEach(product => {
  console.log(`${product.name} - ${product.upvotes} upvotes`);
  console.log(`  ${product.description}`);
  console.log(`  Maker: ${product.maker}`);
});

You can also query historical data by passing a specific date:

const historicalData = await fetch(
  'https://yelp-ph-scraper-production.up.railway.app/api/daily/products?date=2026-03-15'
);
const pastLaunches = await historicalData.json();
console.log(`${pastLaunches.length} products launched on March 15th`);

Use Cases

Competitor monitoring: Get alerts when products launch in your category
Trend analysis: Track launch volume and upvote patterns over time
Market research: Identify emerging product categories before they go mainstream
Content creation: Build curated roundups of top daily launches for newsletters
Investment signals: Spot products gaining unusual traction early

Try It Out

The API is live on RapidAPI with a free tier so you can test it immediately. Head over to the Product Hunt Launch Tracker listing, subscribe, and start pulling launch data into your projects.

Whether you're building a startup intelligence dashboard or just want a daily digest of what's launching, this API saves you the scraping headache and gives you clean, reliable data.

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