Unofficial API for Product Hunt This API is created for educational purposes.I thought to do this project as I am learning python. The official api can be found on the developer website of product hunt.Highly recommend using that.
Important: This project is no longer supported, the html of the website changes very often.. Any ways check out my new api for Hacker News.It is more stable.
- Compatible with Python 2 (2.7+).
- Supports page(num)
- Retrieve comments from posts.
[Product].get_comments() - Pagination support for comments
parent_id and comment_id for 2 level pagination - Get post details for any Product.
[Product].get(12839) - Gets the User info ,Product info , Front page extraction
- gets the User followers and the following ids
- get ids of the upvoted product, followers and following from user
- Ordering Products posts by top [most upvote] ,newest ,page number
- Get the timestamp ,urls,ids ,html_body of the comment portion and much more.
Just clone the repo
python setup.py install
NOTE: The product max_limit have been set to 150. You can vary with any number between that.To change the max_limit refer to ./ProductHunt_API/ph/ph.py .
####Initialize with PH
from ph import PH
ph = PH
for product in ph.get_products(45,"top"):
print (product.title,product.link)
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
limit |
integer | No | Number of stories required from the given page. Max limit has been kept to 150 | 30 |
product_type |
string | No | Returns the products from this page. One of (empty string), newest, top, {num} |
(empty string) (newest) |
Example:
from ph import PH
ph = PH()
ph.get_products(limit=30,page_type="newest")
ph.get_products(limit=30,page_type="top")
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
user_id |
integer | Yes | The user id of the user profile on product hunt | None |
Example
from ph import User
user = User.get(2)
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example |
from ph import User
user = User.get(2)
user.get_following()
user.get_follower()
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
product_id |
integer | Yes | product id of the post on product hunt | None |
Example
from ph import Product
product = Product.get(12838)
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example |
from ph import Product
product = Product.get(12838)
product.get_comments()
###Each Product has the following properties
- upvote - product's upvote
- product_id - the id of the product
- title - the title of the product post
- link - the link for the product in the producthunt query format
- domain - the real url or domain of the product
- submitter - the name of the submitter
- submitter_id - the if of the submitter
- published_time - published time of the product post
- num_comments - the number of comment on the post
###Each Comment has the following properties
- user_id - id of the commenter
- user_name - name of the commenter
- comment_id - the comment's id
- parent_id - the discussion starts with the parent id [person who starts the discussion has the comment_id == parent_id]
- body_html - the html of the comment
- body - comment in text
- upvote - upvotes for the comment
- time - time when the comment was published
###Each User has the following properties
- user_id - the user's id
- user_name - the user name of the profile
- about - about the user's profile
- upvote - number of products upvoted by user
- submitted - number of products submitted by user
- made - number of products made by the user
- followers - number of followers of the user profile
- followings - number of profiles the user is following
- twitter - twitter profile name of the user
- add tests
- add examples
- add coverage