Get a maker or hunter profile
Read a Product Hunt member's public profile: name, headline, about text, links, join date, follower and following counts, upvotes given, launches submitted, collections and badges — plus the first page of products they created and every product they are credited on. The way to go from a launch's maker list to who these people are.
/user-profile People https://api.fetchlayer.dev/producthunt/user-profile Headers
Authorization string required Bearer token — your FetchLayer API key.
Parameters
user string required Username, "@username", or a Product Hunt profile URL.
format string optional json or markdown. (default: json)
timeoutMs number optional Per-request time limit in milliseconds (max 600000).
Response Fields
user-profile
Get a maker or hunter profile
profile object The public profile record.
profile.username string Product Hunt username.
profile.headline string | null The one-line bio, with about carrying the longer text.
profile.links object[] External links listed on the profile.
profile.joinedAt string | null When the account was created.
profile.followersCount number | null Followers, with followingCount alongside it.
profile.upvotesGiven number | null Upvotes this person has given.
profile.launchesSubmittedCount number | null How many launches they have submitted — the hunter signal.
profile.isMaker boolean Whether Product Hunt marks them as a maker, with isVerified alongside it.
profile.products object[] The first page of products this person created, newest first.
profile.creditedProducts object[] Every product this person is credited on. Names and logos only.
requestedUrl string The Product Hunt page this result corresponds to.
scrapedAt string ISO timestamp the result was collected at.
notes string[] Read this. Caveats about this specific result — a walk that stopped early, an upstream ceiling, or promoted entries that were dropped. An empty array means nothing was held back.
blocked boolean Always false on a successful response.
Request
curl -X POST "https://api.fetchlayer.dev/producthunt/user-profile" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"user":"rrhoover"}'Response
{
"profile": {
"username": "rrhoover",
"name": "Ryan Hoover",
"headline": "Founder",
"followersCount": 128400,
"launchesSubmittedCount": 1204,
"isMaker": true
},
"notes": []
}