/producthunt/products/alternatives

POST /api/producthunt/products/alternatives

Price: 5 credits

Get Product Hunt (producthunt.com) competitor product list (alternatives) by slug or product URL

How to use it

Get the list of Product Hunt (producthunt.com) alternative products (competitors) for a product, by slug or product URL. Returns each alternative's id, name, alias, tagline, description, url, image, rating, review_count, follower_count, category, categories, tags, is_top_product, is_offline, and similarity scoring (combined_score, embedding_score, category_score, rating_score).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• product string required — Product Hunt product slug ('notion') or full product URL ('https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion'). (examples: "notion", "https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion"; minLength: 1; pattern: ^(?:https?://[^\s]+|//[^\s]+|(?:www\.)?producthunt\.com[^\s]*|[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*)$)
• count integer required — Max number of alternative products to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "ProductHuntAlternative")
• id string required
• alias string required
• name string required
• tagline string nullable
• description string nullable
• url string required
• image string nullable
• rating number nullable
• review_count integer nullable
• follower_count integer nullable
• category string nullable
• categories array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "ProductHuntAlternativeCategory")
  • id string nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
• is_top_product boolean nullable
• is_offline boolean nullable
• embedding_summary string nullable
• combined_score number nullable
• embedding_score number nullable
• category_score number nullable
• rating_score number nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Product not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.