List or get Product Hunt categories

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List Product Hunt's product categories with name, slug, description and page URL. Pass slug to retrieve one category with its parent and sub-categories and list its live products by rating, followers, recency, recent launches, top free or trending. Page with cursor.

GET/v1/producthunt/categoriesx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

slugstringquery

Optional category slug, as in producthunt.com/categories/<slug>. Returns that category and its products instead of the category list.

cursorstringquery

Opaque nextCursor from the previous page. Omit for the first page.

limitstringquery

Records per page, 1–20; defaults to 20 (the source's page ceiling).

orderenumquery

With slug only: highest_rated (default), best_rated, most_followed, most_recent, recent_launches, top_free or trending.

one of: highest_rated, best_rated, most_followed, most_recent, recent_launches, top_free, trending

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation identifier.

HTTP attempts, decoded bytes and duration for the operation, including the single shared retry.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed, or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Public Product Hunt page for the request.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

source is public_api (Product Hunt's public web GraphQL) or public_feed (the Atom launch feed). Complete means this bounded page was returned without known omissions; votes_hidden marks launches whose vote count Product Hunt hides during their first hours (returned as null).

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_api, public_feed

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Categories in source order.

up to 20 items

categories.idstring

Category ID.

categories.slugstring

Category slug, as in producthunt.com/categories/<slug>.

categories.namestring

Category name.

categories.descriptionstringnullable

Category description, or null.

categories.pathstring

Relative category path.

categories.urlstring

Category page URL.

totalCountintegernullable

Total records the source reports for this list, or null when it does not report one.

nextCursorstringnullable

Pass as cursor to read the next page; null on the last page.

hasMoreboolean

Whether another page exists.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with votes_hidden warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, including incomplete or impossible leaderboard dates.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The product, launch, comment, topic, category, forum, discussion or user does not exist.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Source throttling; no automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Source rejected or challenged the unauthenticated request.
502	`unsupported_page`	Malformed, mismatched or non-JSON source data, or a GraphQL error.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Response exceeded byte or parsing limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded source retrieval could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/categories" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/categories",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/categories",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Product Hunt request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/categories",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={},
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/categories", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/categories"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "35",
      "slug": "notes",
      "name": "Notes",
      "description": "Synthetic category",
      "path": "/categories/notes",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories/notes"
    }
  ],
  "totalCount": 266,
  "nextCursor": "MQ",
  "hasMore": true,
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/categories",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 4200,
    "durationMs": 340
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, including incomplete or impossible leaderboard dates.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "category": {
    "id": "string",
    "slug": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "path": "string",
    "url": "string",
    "parent": {
      "id": "string",
      "slug": "string",
      "name": "string"
    },
    "subCategories": [
      {
        "id": "string",
        "slug": "string",
        "name": "string"
      }
    ]
  },
  "products": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "slug": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "tagline": "string",
      "url": "string",
      "websiteUrl": "string",
      "logoUuid": "string",
      "logoUrl": "string",
      "reviewsRating": 0,
      "reviewsCount": 0,
      "followersCount": 0,
      "postsCount": 0,
      "isTopProduct": true,
      "isNoLongerOnline": true
    }
  ],
  "totalCount": 0,
  "nextCursor": "string",
  "hasMore": true
}