Get a Product Hunt forum or discussion

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List the threads in a Product Hunt forum: the community forums such as general, or a product's own forum by its slug, each with title, preview, votes, comments, author and featured or pinned flags, sorted by trending, new, popular or featured and paged with cursor. Pass discussion to retrieve one discussion instead: title, full HTML body, votes, comments, page views, status, flags, author and forum.

GET/v1/producthunt/forumx-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

slugstringrequiredquery

Required forum slug, as in producthunt.com/p/<slug>: a community forum such as general, or a product’s slug for its forum.

Examplegeneral

orderenumquery

Thread list only: trending (default), new, popular or featured.

one of: trending, new, popular, featured

Exampletrending

windowenumquery

Thread list only. Time window for popular ordering: now, week, month, year or all (default).

one of: now, week, month, year, all

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).

discussionstringquery

Optional discussion slug, as in producthunt.com/p/<forum>/<discussion>. Returns that discussion instead of the thread list (order, window, cursor and limit are not accepted).

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.

The forum (thread list), or the discussion’s forum id and slug.

forum.idstring

Forum ID.

forum.slugstring

Forum slug.

forum.pathstring

Relative forum path.

forum.urlstring

Forum page URL.

What the forum belongs to: type DiscussionCategory (community forum) or Product, with id, slug, name and, for categories, description.

forum.subject.typestring

Always included.

forum.subject.idstring

Always included.

forum.subject.slugstring

Always included.

forum.subject.namestring

Always included.

forum.subject.descriptionstringnullableoptional

Optional.

Forum threads.

up to 20 items

threads.idstring

Thread ID.

threads.slugstring

Thread slug; read it with the discussion endpoint.

threads.titlestring

Thread title.

threads.descriptionPreviewstringnullable

Opening post preview (HTML), or null.

threads.createdAtstring

Creation time.

threads.isFeaturedboolean

Whether the thread is featured.

threads.isPinnedboolean

Whether the thread is pinned.

threads.commentsCountinteger

Comment count.

threads.votesCountintegernullable

Upvotes, or null while hidden.

threads.subjectTypestringnullable

DiscussionThread for discussions, Post when the entry is a launch shown in a product forum.

threads.pathstring

Relative thread path.

threads.urlstring

Thread page URL.

Thread author.

threads.user.idstring

Product Hunt user ID (string).

threads.user.namestringnullable

Display name.

threads.user.usernamestring

Username, as in producthunt.com/@username.

threads.user.headlinestringnullable

Profile headline, or null.

threads.user.avatarUrlstringnullable

Avatar image URL, or null.

threads.user.urlstring

Public profile 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/forum?slug=general&order=trending" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/producthunt/forum?slug=general&order=trending",
  {
    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/forum?slug=general&order=trending",
  {
    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/forum",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "slug": "general",
        "order": "trending"
    },
    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/forum?slug=general&order=trending", 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/forum?slug=general&order=trending"))
            .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.

{
  "forum": {
    "id": "7",
    "slug": "general",
    "path": "/p/general",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general",
    "subject": {
      "type": "DiscussionCategory",
      "id": "100",
      "slug": "general",
      "name": "General",
      "description": "x"
    }
  },
  "threads": [
    {
      "id": "81",
      "slug": "synthetic-thread",
      "title": "Synthetic thread",
      "descriptionPreview": "<p>Synthetic</p>",
      "createdAt": "2026-07-22T05:50:38-07:00",
      "isFeatured": false,
      "isPinned": true,
      "commentsCount": 4,
      "path": "/p/general/synthetic-thread",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general/synthetic-thread",
      "user": {
        "id": "101",
        "name": "Example Maker",
        "username": "example_maker",
        "headline": "Builds synthetic tools",
        "avatarUrl": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/101/synthetic.png",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@example_maker"
      },
      "votesCount": 8,
      "subjectType": "DiscussionThread"
    },
    {
      "id": "82",
      "slug": "synthetic-thread",
      "title": "Synthetic thread",
      "descriptionPreview": "<p>Synthetic</p>",
      "createdAt": "2026-07-22T05:50:38-07:00",
      "isFeatured": false,
      "isPinned": true,
      "commentsCount": 4,
      "path": "/p/general/synthetic-thread",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general/synthetic-thread",
      "user": {
        "id": "101",
        "name": "Example Maker",
        "username": "example_maker",
        "headline": "Builds synthetic tools",
        "avatarUrl": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/101/synthetic.png",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@example_maker"
      },
      "votesCount": null,
      "subjectType": "Post"
    }
  ],
  "totalCount": 4053,
  "nextCursor": "MQ",
  "hasMore": true,
  "success": true,
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "votes_hidden"
    ]
  },
  "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"
    ]
  },
  "discussion": {
    "id": "string",
    "slug": "string",
    "title": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "createdAt": "string",
    "isFeatured": true,
    "isPinned": true,
    "commentsCount": 0,
    "votesCount": 0,
    "pageViewsCount": 0,
    "status": "string",
    "aiSummary": "string",
    "forum": {
      "id": "string",
      "slug": "string"
    },
    "path": "string",
    "url": "string",
    "user": {
      "id": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "username": "string",
      "headline": "string",
      "avatarUrl": "string",
      "url": "string"
    }
  }
}