ProductHunt Scraping for Competitive Intelligence

ProductHunt is where new products launch. Tracking launches, upvotes, and maker activity gives you an early signal on market trends, competitor moves, and emerging opportunities. Here's how to build a competitive intelligence pipeline from ProductHunt data. What Intelligence Can You Extract? New product launches in your category Upvote velocity (how fast a product gains traction) Maker activity and serial entrepreneurs Comment sentiment and user feedback Technology trends and emerging categories Scraping ProductHunt Launches import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import json import time from datetime import datetime class ProductHuntScraper : BASE_URL = " https://www.producthunt.com " def __init__ ( self ): self . session = requests . Session () self . session . headers . update ({ ' User-Agent ' : ' Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) ' , ' Accept ' : ' text/html,application/xhtml+xml ' , }) def get_daily_launches ( self , date = None ): """ Get products launched on