Product Hunt API

Social / OAuth Advanced HTTPS

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Metadata Score Metadata estimate · not endpoint-tested

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Overview

Product Hunt API lets you access data about newly launched tech products, including upvotes, comments, and maker information using GraphQL and OAuth. You can query trending products, search by topic, or post new product submissions programmatically. It is great for building dashboards or discovery tools around the tech startup ecosystem.

Beginner Tip

Product Hunt uses GraphQL — you can explore the available queries and fields using their API playground at api.producthunt.com/v2/docs before writing any code.

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

Use case: Integrate the best new products in tech data into web and mobile applications

Product Hunt data via REST API

Example Response

Illustrative shape only — we were not able to call this endpoint (it requires credentials or exposes no public sample URL), so the fields below show the kind of data this API returns rather than a recorded response.

JSON Response · Illustrative

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "result": "Data from Product Hunt",
    "description": "The best new products in tech",
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

Field Reference

data.posts.edges List of post edge objects wrapping the actual post node data

node.id Unique identifier of the product post

node.name Name of the product

node.tagline Short one-line description of what the product does

node.votesCount Total number of upvotes the product has received

node.url URL to the product page on Product Hunt

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

Request

const url = "https://api.producthunt.com/v2/api/graphql";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

What Can You Build?

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.

401 Unauthorized OAuth token is missing or expired

✓ Complete the OAuth 2.0 flow to obtain a user token, or use a developer token from your Product Hunt developer settings for read-only access

GraphQL field error in errors array Requested field name is incorrect or not available in the schema

✓ Use the API docs at api.producthunt.com/v2/docs to check valid field names — GraphQL schemas are strict about spelling

429 Rate Limited Sending too many API requests in a short window

✓ Implement exponential backoff and cache results locally to reduce repeated identical queries

Metadata Score Breakdown

Estimated from metadata — endpoint not independently tested

This score is estimated from observable metadata — HTTPS support, authentication model, declared CORS, and documentation reachability — because the API requires authentication or exposes no publicly testable endpoint. The five-signal breakdown is only shown for live-tested APIs.

Metadata estimate · endpoint not independently tested

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