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Try the Product Hunt Category API

Test Crawlora's Product Hunt Category API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /producthunt/category/{slug}
Platform: ProductHunt
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 2 credits/request
Required params: slug

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Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/producthunt/category/%22vibe-coding%22" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
slug (path)	string	Yes	"vibe-coding"	Product Hunt category slug

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "1585",
    "name": "Vibe Coding Tools",
    "description": "Vibe Coding Tools bundle AI-first editors, app builders, proxies, and Python/web stacks to speed building...",
    "slug": "vibe-coding",
    "path": "/categories/vibe-coding",
    "last_updated_at": "2026-04-27T23:10:55-07:00",
    "reviews_count": 1650,
    "meta_title": "The best vibe coding tools in 2026",
    "hero_products": [
      {
        "id": "597151",
        "name": "Cursor",
        "logo_uuid": "d2edfb12-0064-4ea2-af46-12b43bbb2842.png",
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      }
    ],
    "hero_products_count": 79,
    "parent": {
      "id": "72",
      "name": "Engineering & Development",
      "path": "/categories/engineering-development"
    },
    "recent_summary": {
      "summary": "Recent launches cluster around fast app creation, agent orchestration, and workflow glue...",
      "products": [
        {
          "id": "566141",
          "slug": "lovable",
          "name": "Lovable",
          "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
          "reviews_rating": 4.67,
          "reviews_count": 178
        }
      ]
    },
    "recent_launches_count": 79
  }
}

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Endpoint

GETapiKey2 credits/requestproducthunt.categoryResponseDocProductHunt

GET /producthunt/category/{slug}

Retrieve Product Hunt category details

Returns the category page payload for a Product Hunt category slug.

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Path parameters

slug

requiredstring

Product Hunt category slug

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "1585",
    "name": "Vibe Coding Tools",
    "description": "Vibe Coding Tools bundle AI-first editors, app builders, proxies, and Python/web stacks to speed building...",
    "slug": "vibe-coding",
    "path": "/categories/vibe-coding",
    "last_updated_at": "2026-04-27T23:10:55-07:00",
    "reviews_count": 1650,
    "meta_title": "The best vibe coding tools in 2026",
    "hero_products": [
      {
        "id": "597151",
        "name": "Cursor",
        "logo_uuid": "d2edfb12-0064-4ea2-af46-12b43bbb2842.png",
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      }
    ],
    "hero_products_count": 79,
    "parent": {
      "id": "72",
      "name": "Engineering & Development",
      "path": "/categories/engineering-development"
    },
    "recent_summary": {
      "summary": "Recent launches cluster around fast app creation, agent orchestration, and workflow glue...",
      "products": [
        {
          "id": "566141",
          "slug": "lovable",
          "name": "Lovable",
          "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
          "reviews_rating": 4.67,
          "reviews_count": 178
        }
      ]
    },
    "recent_launches_count": 79
  }
}

Endpoint details

Returns the category page payload for a Product Hunt category slug.

Method: GET
Path: /producthunt/category/{slug}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: ProductHunt
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

slug:pathx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.descriptiondata.discussionsdata.discussions[].comments_countdata.discussions[].created_atdata.discussions[].description_previewdata.discussions[].has_voteddata.discussions[].iddata.discussions[].pathdata.discussions[].pinneddata.discussions[].primary_forum

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "1585",
    "name": "Vibe Coding Tools",
    "description": "Vibe Coding Tools bundle AI-first editors, app builders, proxies, and Python/web stacks to speed building...",
    "slug": "vibe-coding",
    "path": "/categories/vibe-coding",
    "last_updated_at": "2026-04-27T23:10:55-07:00",
    "reviews_count": 1650,
    "meta_title": "The best vibe coding tools in 2026",
    "hero_products": [
      {
        "id": "597151",
        "name": "Cursor",
        "logo_uuid": "d2edfb12-0064-4ea2-af46-12b43bbb2842.png",
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      }
    ],
    "hero_products_count": 79,
    "parent": {
      "id": "72",
      "name": "Engineering & Development",
      "path": "/categories/engineering-development"
    },
    "recent_summary": {
      "summary": "Recent launches cluster around fast app creation, agent orchestration, and workflow glue...",
      "products": [
        {
          "id": "566141",
          "slug": "lovable",
          "name": "Lovable",
          "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
          "reviews_rating": 4.67,
          "reviews_count": 178
        }
      ]
    },
    "recent_launches_count": 79
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/producthunt/category/<slug>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
slug (path)	string	Yes	"vibe-coding"	Product Hunt category slug

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "1585",
    "name": "Vibe Coding Tools",
    "description": "Vibe Coding Tools bundle AI-first editors, app builders, proxies, and Python/web stacks to speed building...",
    "slug": "vibe-coding",
    "path": "/categories/vibe-coding",
    "last_updated_at": "2026-04-27T23:10:55-07:00",
    "reviews_count": 1650,
    "meta_title": "The best vibe coding tools in 2026",
    "hero_products": [
      {
        "id": "597151",
        "name": "Cursor",
        "logo_uuid": "d2edfb12-0064-4ea2-af46-12b43bbb2842.png",
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      }
    ],
    "hero_products_count": 79,
    "parent": {
      "id": "72",
      "name": "Engineering & Development",
      "path": "/categories/engineering-development"
    },
    "recent_summary": {
      "summary": "Recent launches cluster around fast app creation, agent orchestration, and workflow glue...",
      "products": [
        {
          "id": "566141",
          "slug": "lovable",
          "name": "Lovable",
          "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
          "reviews_rating": 4.67,
          "reviews_count": 178
        }
      ]
    },
    "recent_launches_count": 79
  }
}

{ "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": "1585", "name": "Vibe Coding Tools", "description": "Vibe Coding Tools bundle AI-first editors, app builders, proxies, and Python/web stacks to speed building...", "slug": "vibe-coding", "path": "/categories/vibe-coding", "last_updated_at": "2026-04-27T23:10:55-07:00", "reviews_count": 1650, "meta_title": "The best vibe coding tools in 2026", "hero_products": [ { "id": "597151", "name": "Cursor", "logo_uuid": "d2edfb12-0064-4ea2-af46-12b43bbb2842.png", "is_no_longer_online": false } ], "hero_products_count": 79, "parent": { "id": "72", "name": "Engineering & Development", "path": "/categories/engineering-development" }, "recent_summary": { "summary": "Recent launches cluster around fast app creation, agent orchestration, and workflow glue...", "products": [ { "id": "566141", "slug": "lovable", "name": "Lovable", "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer", "reviews_rating": 4.67, "reviews_count": 178 } ] }, "recent_launches_count": 79 } }

Endpoint details

Returns the category page payload for a Product Hunt category slug.

Method: GET
Path: /producthunt/category/{slug}
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 2 credits/request
Platform: ProductHunt
Parameters: 2 documented fields

Request parameters

slug:pathx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "id": "1585",
    "name": "Vibe Coding Tools",
    "description": "Vibe Coding Tools bundle AI-first editors, app builders, proxies, and Python/web stacks to speed building...",
    "slug": "vibe-coding",
    "path": "/categories/vibe-coding",
    "last_updated_at": "2026-04-27T23:10:55-07:00",
    "reviews_count": 1650,
    "meta_title": "The best vibe coding tools in 2026",
    "hero_products": [
      {
        "id": "597151",
        "name": "Cursor",
        "logo_uuid": "d2edfb12-0064-4ea2-af46-12b43bbb2842.png",
        "is_no_longer_online": false
      }
    ],
    "hero_products_count": 79,
    "parent": {
      "id": "72",
      "name": "Engineering & Development",
      "path": "/categories/engineering-development"
    },
    "recent_summary": {
      "summary": "Recent launches cluster around fast app creation, agent orchestration, and workflow glue...",
      "products": [
        {
          "id": "566141",
          "slug": "lovable",
          "name": "Lovable",
          "tagline": "The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer",
          "reviews_rating": 4.67,
          "reviews_count": 178
        }
      ]
    },
    "recent_launches_count": 79
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/producthunt/category/<slug>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"