ProductHunt API endpoint

Retrieve Product Hunt product alternatives

Returns paginated alternatives, tags, and related discussions for a Product Hunt product.

GETapiKey2 credits/requestproducthunt.alternativesResponseDoc/producthunt/product/{id}/alternatives

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Example	Description
id	path	string	Yes	"clico"	Product Hunt slug
first	query	integer	No		Page size
cursor	query	string	No		Pagination cursor
order	query	string	No		Sort order
tags	query	string	No		Comma-separated tag slugs
x-api-key	header	string	Yes		API key required

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Charged response: Successful 2xx responses

Plan	Price	Included credits	Daily cap	Rate limit	Overage
Free	$0/mo	2,000	500 daily credits	5/min	No overage
Starter	$9/mo	20,000	5,000 daily credits	15/min	$0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled
Growth	$29/mo	100,000	25,000 daily credits	45/min	$0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled
Pro	$79/mo	400,000	No daily cap	120/min	$0.30/1,000 overage credits
Business	$199/mo	1,200,000	No daily cap	300/min	$0.20/1,000 overage credits
Enterprise	$499/mo	5,000,000	No daily cap	1,000/min	$0.12/1,000 overage credits

Response behavior

- Pass the returned `cursor` value from a previous response to continue pagination. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "product_id": "1191613", "slug": "clico", "name": "Clico", "followers_count": 577, "categories": [ "Writing assistants" ], "alternative_tags": [ { "name": "chrome extension", "count": 24 } ] } } ```

Failure responses

Status	Description	Schema
400	Missing or invalid parameters	#/definitions/app.Response
404	Product not found	#/definitions/app.Response
429	Rate limit exceeded	#/definitions/app.Response
500	Internal server error	#/definitions/app.Response

Example response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "product_id": "1191613",
    "slug": "clico",
    "name": "Clico",
    "followers_count": 577,
    "categories": [
      "Writing assistants"
    ],
    "alternative_tags": [
      {
        "name": "chrome extension",
        "count": 24
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request schema

No body schema

Response schema

#/definitions/producthunt.alternativesResponseDoc

Field	Type	Required	Example
code	integer	No	200
data	producthunt.ProductAlternativesPage	No
data.alternative_tags	array	No
data.alternative_tags[].count	integer	No
data.alternative_tags[].name	string	No
data.alternatives_markdown_description	string	No
data.categories	array	No
data.discussions	array	No
data.discussions[].comments_count	integer	No
data.discussions[].created_at	string	No
data.discussions[].description_preview	string	No
data.discussions[].has_voted	boolean	No
data.discussions[].id	string	No
data.discussions[].path	string	No
data.discussions[].pinned	boolean	No
data.discussions[].primary_forum	producthunt.ProductAlternativeDiscussionForum	No
data.discussions[].primary_forum.id	string	No
data.discussions[].primary_forum.slug	string	No
data.discussions[].primary_forum.subject_id	string	No
data.discussions[].primary_forum.subject_name	string	No
data.discussions[].slug	string	No
data.discussions[].title	string	No
data.discussions[].user	producthunt.ProductAlternativeDiscussionUser	No
data.discussions[].user.avatar_url	string	No
data.discussions[].user.id	string	No
data.discussions[].user.name	string	No
data.discussions[].user.username	string	No
data.discussions[].votes_count	integer	No
data.discussions_has_next_page	boolean	No
data.end_cursor	string	No	MTA
data.followers_count	integer	No	577
data.has_next_page	boolean	No	true
data.items	array	No
data.items[].category_score	number	No
data.items[].category_weight	number	No
data.items[].combined_score	number	No
data.items[].embedding_score	number	No
data.items[].embedding_weight	number	No
data.items[].id	string	No
data.items[].product	producthunt.ProductAlternativeProduct	No
data.items[].product.badges	array	No
data.items[].product.badges[].date	string	No
data.items[].product.badges[].id	string	No
data.items[].product.badges[].period	string	No
data.items[].product.badges[].position	integer	No
data.items[].product.badges[].post_name	string	No
data.items[].product.badges[].post_slug	string	No
data.items[].product.categories	array	No
data.items[].product.followers_count	integer	No
data.items[].product.id	string	No
data.items[].product.is_subscribed	boolean	No
data.items[].product.is_top_product	boolean	No
data.items[].product.logo_uuid	string	No
data.items[].product.name	string	No
data.items[].product.reviews_count	integer	No
data.items[].product.reviews_rating	number	No
data.items[].product.slug	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data	producthunt.ProductAlternativeStructuredData	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.application_category	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.context	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.date_modified	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.date_published	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.description	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.id	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.image	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.name	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.operating_system	string	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.screenshot	array	No
data.items[].product.structured_data.url	string	No
data.items[].product.tagline	string	No
data.items[].product.tags	array	No
data.items[].rating_score	number	No
data.items[].rating_weight	number	No
data.name	string	No	Clico
data.product_id	string	No	1191613
data.slug	string	No	clico
data.total_count	integer	No	50
msg	string	No	OK

Example request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/producthunt/product/%22clico%22/alternatives" -H "x-api-key: <api-key>"

TypeScript fetch

const url = new URL("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/producthunt/product/%22clico%22/alternatives");
const headers = new Headers();
headers.set("x-api-key", "<api-key>");
const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: "GET",
  headers,
});
const payload = await response.json();

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