How do I get past 250 products?

Run the request again with a higher start_page. The sample reports the total found, so you can plan the pages.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a request cost?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

Product Hunt Category Products API and MCP — Products, Ratings and Review Counts by Category

Send a category slug such as productivity (or the category page link) and a max_items cap, and get the products in that category back as structured JSON: name, link, tagline, rating, review count, number of launches, image and the categories each product is listed under.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a Product Hunt category slug or category page link, and how many products you want (up to 250)
You get back: products in the category with tagline, rating, review count, number of launches and the categories they are listed under
Coverage: Product Hunt records with a public page.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Product Hunt directly	Open the page on Product Hunt and scroll through the list	Free, and slow	Fine for one record, useless across a list, and the layout differs on every platform
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Product Hunt changes its pages	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns what Product Hunt publishes at request time. Other platforms are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Source type of the response.
`category`	string	The category you sent.
`max_items`	number	The cap on returned records, as run.
`start_page`	number	Page the run started from.
`partial`	boolean	True when the run stopped before reaching max_items.
`human`	string	Readable summary: the query, how many results came back and how many were found.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run.
`machine.total_items`	number	Number of products returned in this response.
`machine.total_found`	number	Total matches reported by the platform, when it reports one.
`machine.first_item.id`	string	Product slug.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	Product name.
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the product page on Product Hunt.
`machine.first_item.alias`	string	Product slug as Product Hunt uses it.
`machine.first_item.product_id`	string	Numeric product id, as a string.
`machine.first_item.tagline`	string	One-line tagline.
`machine.first_item.rating`	number	Average review rating.
`machine.first_item.review_count`	number	Number of reviews.
`machine.first_item.post_count`	number	Number of launches the product has had.
`machine.first_item.image`	string	Product image URL.
`machine.first_item.categories`	array	Categories the product is listed under; each has name, slug and url.
`machine.first_item.is_no_longer_online`	boolean	Whether Product Hunt marks the product as no longer online.
`machine.items[]`	array	Products returned, same shape as first_item.
`machine.page_count`	number	Pages read for the run.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the platform refused the request.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Size of the data transferred for the run, in bytes.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "producthunt_categories",
  "category": "productivity",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Product Hunt — category products\n\n- **Category:** productivity\n- **Results:** 2 of 9653 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 794.9 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "figma",
      "name": "Figma",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/figma",
      "alias": "figma",
      "product_id": "109920",
      "tagline": "The collaborative interface design tool",
      "rating": 4.93,
      "review_count": 1589,
      "post_count": 34,
      "image": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/db00a7a1-6778-4e51-a953-de5a9a339bc9.jpeg?auto=format&fit=crop&w=128&h=128",
      "categories": [
        {
          "name": "Team collaboration software",
          "slug": "team-collaboration",
          "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/team-collaboration"
        },
        {
          "name": "Wireframing",
          "slug": "wireframing",
          "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/wireframing"
        },
        {
          "name": "Interface design tools",
          "slug": "interface-design-tools",
          "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/interface-design-tools"
        }
      ],
      "is_no_longer_online": false
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "figma",
        "name": "Figma",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/figma",
        "alias": "figma",
        "product_id": "109920",
        "tagline": "The collaborative interface design tool",
        "rating": 4.93,
        "review_count": 1589,
        "post_count": 34,
        "image": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/db00a7a1-6778-4e51-a953-de5a9a339bc9.jpeg?auto=format&fit=crop&w=128&h=128",
        "categories": [
          {
            "name": "Team collaboration software",
            "slug": "team-collaboration",
            "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/team-collaboration"
          },
          {
            "name": "Wireframing",
            "slug": "wireframing",
            "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/wireframing"
          },
          {
            "name": "Interface design tools",
            "slug": "interface-design-tools",
            "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/interface-design-tools"
          }
        ],
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      },
      {
        "id": "notion",
        "name": "Notion",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion",
        "alias": "notion",
        "product_id": "106091",
        "tagline": "The all-in-one workspace",
        "rating": 4.83,
        "review_count": 1409,
        "post_count": 25,
        "image": "https://ph-files.imgix.net/ff3e2acf-884a-4f4c-a383-6edfe3de0d88.png?auto=format&fit=crop&w=128&h=128",
        "categories": [
          {
            "name": "Note and writing apps",
            "slug": "notes-documents",
            "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/notes-documents"
          },
          {
            "name": "Project management software",
            "slug": "project-management",
            "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/project-management"
          },
          {
            "name": "No-code Platforms",
            "slug": "no-code-platforms",
            "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/no-code-platforms"
          }
        ],
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 9653,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 813954
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged. max_items caps how many records are returned and billed.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-producthunt-categories \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"category":"productivity","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Competitor lists

Pull the products in a category to see who else is positioned in your market, with ratings and review counts side by side.

Lead lists

Collect product names, links and taglines for a segment to feed outreach or enrichment.

Market sizing inputs

Read the number of products the platform reports for a category and the launch count for each.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Product Hunt records with a public page.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the platform as it stands when you ask.

Handling

This source returns information Product Hunt shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Rating and review counts are those shown on Product Hunt when you ask; there is no history.
—Each response is capped by max_items (up to 250); larger categories need start_page to move through pages.
—Funding, revenue and employee data are not on these pages; pair with a company source for that.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Use the Product Hunt categories source, or copy it from the category page link.

Related sources

Product Hunt categories

The full category tree with parents and descriptions.

Product Hunt topic products

Products listed under one topic.

Product Hunt launch

One launch with votes, ranks and product.

All startup & funding data

Startup directories, funding databases, launch platforms and investor data.

Try product hunt category products on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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