producthunt-cli

cli-web-producthunt

CLI for Product Hunt. Installed at: cli-web-producthunt.

Quick Start

# Today's top products
cli-web-producthunt posts list --json

# Product detail
cli-web-producthunt posts get <slug> --json

# Leaderboard
cli-web-producthunt posts leaderboard --period daily --json

Always use --json when parsing output programmatically.

Commands

Posts

cli-web-producthunt posts list --json                    # Today's launches
cli-web-producthunt posts get <slug> --json              # Product detail
cli-web-producthunt posts leaderboard --json             # Daily leaderboard
cli-web-producthunt posts leaderboard --period weekly    # Weekly leaderboard
cli-web-producthunt posts leaderboard --period monthly   # Monthly leaderboard
cli-web-producthunt posts leaderboard --date 2026-03-15  # Specific date

Output fields: id, name, tagline, slug, url, description, votes_count, comments_count, topics, thumbnail_url, rank

Users

cli-web-producthunt users get <username> --json

Output fields: id, name, username, headline, profile_image, followers_count

Auth

No authentication required.

Agent Patterns

# Get today's top 3 products
cli-web-producthunt posts list --json | python -c "
import sys,json
for p in json.load(sys.stdin)[:3]:
    print(f'{p[\"rank\"]}. {p[\"name\"]} ({p[\"votes_count\"]} votes) - {p[\"tagline\"]}')"

# Check a specific product
cli-web-producthunt posts get stitch-2-0-by-google-2 --json

Notes

• Auth: Not required — reads Product Hunt's embedded Next.js data via curl_cffi
• No API key, no tokens, no cookies needed
• Posts come from the Next.js RSC flight stream (self.__next_f), not DOM scraping; curl_cffi Chrome impersonation handles transport
• Rate limiting: Be respectful — avoid rapid successive requests
• posts list and posts leaderboard are the most reliable commands — they read the homepage/leaderboard RSC payload, which has clean structured data
• posts get <slug> scrapes the detail page — name may include tagline, votes_count/comments_count may be 0 (detail page HTML structure differs from list). Prefer using data from posts list when possible
• description is null in list view (only available in posts get detail view)
• rank is null in leaderboard view (use array index for ordering)