Product Hunt scraper: every launch, with the makers behind it.
QuickExtract is a Product Hunt scraper for Chrome. Pick a date range and it reads each day's Product Hunt leaderboard. You get the product, its makers and hunter, their profiles and links, and the best email on the product's website, all free.
- Makers
- Maya Okafor, Theo Lind
- Hunter
- Sam Reyes
- [email protected] Free
Example launch.
What is a Product Hunt scraper?
Product Hunt lists new launches every day, with the makers who built them. Reading it by hand means a lot of tabs per launch: the launch page, each maker's profile, then the product's website to look for an email. A Product Hunt scraper does those steps for every launch in a date range and puts the results in one table.
Fresh Product Hunt leads
A team that launched this week is still choosing its tools. That makes Product Hunt leads timely for anyone selling to startups.
The people, not just the product
You get every maker and the hunter, with profile links, headlines, LinkedIn and X, so you know who you're writing to.
An email where one exists
Product Hunt doesn't publish makers' private emails. QuickExtract finds the email on the product's website, or one the maker made public.
How to scrape Product Hunt makers in 4 steps.
Pick the days
Open Product Hunt in the dashboard. Choose From and To dates, up to 62 days, or use a preset: Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days or Last 30 days.
Set a daily limit
Choose how many launches to take from each day's leaderboard, from 1 to 200. The default is 40.
Let it run
Press Start Product Hunt run. A pinned tab reads each daily leaderboard and keeps going even if you close the dashboard. You see elapsed time and time left.
Get makers and emails
Maker and hunter profiles are read, and each product's website is crawled for its best email.
Launches with no email found are still kept, with their website, makers and links. For the full walkthrough, read how to find Product Hunt founder emails.
What the Product Hunt scraper collects.
| Field | What it is | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| The product | ||
| Name and tagline | As shown on the launch. | Free |
| Description | The product's description. | Free |
| Topics | Product Hunt topics, such as SaaS or Developer Tools. | Free |
| Upvotes and comments | Counts at the time of the scrape. | Free |
| Pricing | Free, Freemium or Paid, as listed. | Free |
| Launch date | The day it launched. | Free |
| Website and thumbnail | The product's website, domain and image. | Free |
| Product links | The product's X, LinkedIn and GitHub links. | Free |
| The people | ||
| Makers | Every maker's name. The first maker becomes the row's contact. | Free |
| Maker profile | Profile link, headline, LinkedIn, X and any public email. | Free |
| Hunter | Name, profile, LinkedIn and headline. | Free |
| Emails | ||
| Company email | The best email on the product's website. If there isn't one, the maker's public email. | Free |
| Verified person email | A maker's verified work email when it isn't published. | Only when a valid one is found |
Export CSV gives you 37 columns in UTF-8, named like producthunt-<dates>-<n>-launches.csv. You can also export TXT (one email per line) or copy emails. Mapping guides: export Product Hunt to CSV and Product Hunt to Google Sheets.
Makers vs hunters.
Each launch shows two kinds of people, and they matter differently for outreach.
Makers
The people who built the product: founders, co-founders and early team members. A launch can list several. QuickExtract saves every maker's name and uses the first maker as the row's contact, so their first name is ready for your opener.
Hunters
The person who posted the launch. Sometimes that's a maker; often it's someone outside the team who is active in the community. Hunters can be useful if you run a newsletter, community or launch service, but they usually don't speak for the product's company.
How the Product Hunt email finder works.
QuickExtract looks for an email in this order, and the first two steps are always free.
The product website
It checks the homepage and up to 8 likely pages, such as contact, about and team, and picks the best address. At an early-stage startup that's often a founder's own address or a hello@ inbox the founders read.
The maker's public email
If the website has no email, it uses the email the first maker published on their profile, if there is one.
A verified person email
Still nothing useful? Select the launch and use the email finder to look up the maker's work email at the product's domain.
Pay only for valid ones
Person emails cost $29 for 2,000 credits, about 1.45¢ each. One credit per valid email found; no valid email, no charge.
Each person email is found and verified in real time when you ask, then checked three times: format and domain, mailbox, and a dedicated catch-all check. Emails that fail any pass are dropped. Select only the launches you plan to contact before you run it.
Options under Additional settings.
- Date range
- Up to 62 days per run
- Launches per day
- 1 to 200 (default 40)
- Deep scan every launch page
- Off by default
- Read maker and hunter profiles
- On by default
- Show the tab if a day stalls
- On by default
- Crawl each website for emails
- On by default
- Close the dashboard
- The pinned tab keeps running
- Where results go
- An auto-named group by date, or your own
Choosing a date range and daily limit.
A lower daily limit keeps you to the launches that ranked best that day. A higher one reaches further down the leaderboard, where smaller teams may be easier to start a conversation with.
| Goal | Range | Launches per day |
|---|---|---|
| Daily outreach to yesterday's launches | Yesterday | 40 |
| Weekly list of the top launches | Last 7 days | 20 |
| Market map of a whole month | Last 30 days | 200 |
| A full quarter | Two ranges, each up to 62 days | As needed |
If a day comes up short, keep “Show the tab briefly if a day stalls” on and leave the pinned tab open. If results are still thin, turn on “Deep scan every launch page”. It's slower, so use it only when you need it.
Turn Product Hunt leads into replies.
A launch gives you something specific to say. Use the fields you collected instead of a generic pitch.
Write while it's recent
The launch date is in every row. A note in the days after a launch is more relevant than one months later.
Quote their words
The tagline shows how the founders describe their own product. Topics let you group launches and write one version per market.
Read the signals
Pricing (Free, Freemium or Paid) hints at the business model. The maker's headline tells you their role.
A template to start from: Hi {{firstName|there}}, saw {{product}} launch on Product Hunt on {{launchDate}}… Keep it short and mention the launch once. Founders get a lot of messages after a launch, so a specific, useful note stands out. Follow the anti-spam and data protection laws where they live, and make it easy to opt out. This is general information, not legal advice.
Tips for Product Hunt runs.
Scan any Product Hunt page
Right-click on a daily, weekly or monthly leaderboard, a topic page or a single product and choose “Scan this Product Hunt page”.
Make it a morning habit
Run Yesterday each morning into a group per month, and you'll never miss a launch in your space.
Personalize with the launch
Tagline, topics and launch date are in every row. Mention the launch and the maker's first name in your opener.
Read the “View more” panel
The Maker column shows the lead maker, and “View more” lists every maker and the hunter with their links.
Still to process
Tiles show Launches, With website, With email and Still to process, so you know when emails are done.
Slow day? It recovers
If a day stalls, the tab is shown briefly to get it moving again. You can turn that off.
How far back can I go?
Any range of up to 62 days in a single run. Run again for earlier dates.
Is QuickExtract a free Product Hunt scraper?
Yes. Collecting launches, makers, hunters, links, website emails and public maker emails is free, and so is exporting. Only verified person emails for makers are paid.
Is a maker's public email free?
Yes. Any email a maker lists publicly, and any email on the product's website, is free.
Can I get a maker's email if it isn't public?
Yes, with verified person emails at $29 for 2,000. You're charged only when a valid email is found, and only verified emails are delivered.
Which maker becomes the contact on a row?
The first maker listed on the launch. Every maker's name is still saved on the row, along with the profile details that were found.
Is the hunter the founder?
Sometimes, but often not. The hunter is whoever posted the launch. Write to makers about the product.
Can I send Product Hunt leads to Google Sheets?
Yes. Export CSV and import it into Google Sheets, or follow the Product Hunt to Google Sheets guide.
Do I need to keep Product Hunt open?
The run uses its own pinned tab. Leave that tab alone and close the dashboard if you like.
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