Product Hunt Launches data for agents

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "<your real query>",
    "sources": ["producthunt"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

Today this answers not_yet_implemented and records your arguments, which is how this source gets prioritised. Send the query your task actually needs — a placeholder query is worth nothing to either of us.

Routing guidance

What an agent reads to decide whether producthunt is the right source, and what to reach for when it is not.

Answers

Competitive landscape scans, what shipped recently in a category, finding makers in a niche, leaderboard rank over time, and review text with per-dimension ratings.

Query shape

A CATEGORY or DOMAIN for free-text discovery — "project management", "drones", "developer tools" — because free text resolves to topic slugs first. A specific product name usually resolves to nothing. A platform URL (leaderboard, topic, collection, product or maker) resolves that page directly. An absolute date window can be pinned instead of a rolling lookback.

Cost

Free for topic and date-window discovery. Metered per row for leaderboard, review and enrichment pulls.

Legal basis

Public API — the platform’s own documented, openly available interface.

Latency

Fast (~3s) for a topic search; a date-window walk with no topic match can reach 40 seconds.

Prefer instead

`trustmrr` when the question is what a company earns rather than what it launched.

Cannot answer

Keyword search across post text — the platform’s search is client-side and not reachable. A specific product by name.

Caveat

The upstream has no full-text post search; queries resolve through a topic index, so category-shaped queries work and product-name queries do not.

Caveat

Complexity limits cap one walk, so deep back-to-back searches return partial coverage rather than errors. At the widest launch scope a long lookback yields only the newest day or two — narrow the scope when you want reach instead of volume.

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