Using Product Hunt API with JavaScript

If you’re looking to access Product Hunt’s data programmatically, you’ve come to the right place. Product Hunt’s API uses RESTful endpoints and returns JSON responses. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to use the Product Hunt API with JavaScript.

Authentication

Before you can start making requests to the Product Hunt API, you need to authenticate yourself by obtaining an access token. You can read the documentation on how to obtain an access token here.

Getting Started

The Product Hunt API has several endpoints. You can read the full documentation on the available endpoints here.

To get started, let’s make a request to the /v1/posts endpoint, which returns the current day’s top posts. We’ll use the fetch function to make the request:

fetch('https://api.producthunt.com/v1/posts', {
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}',
  }
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Replace {ACCESS_TOKEN} with your own access token. This code will log the JSON response from the API to the console.

Example: Search for Products

Let’s say we want to search for products related to “design”. We can use the /v1/api/search endpoint to make the request:

fetch('https://api.producthunt.com/v1/api/search?query=design&type=product', {
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}',
  }
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

This will log an array of products related to “design” to the console.

Example: Get Product Details

Let’s say we want to get details about a specific product. We can use the /v1/products/:id endpoint to make the request:

fetch('https://api.producthunt.com/v1/products/123', {
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}',
  }
})
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Replace 123 with the ID of the product you want to get details for. This will log the details of the specified product to the console.

Conclusion

In this blog post, we explored how to use the Product Hunt API with JavaScript. We covered authentication, making requests to the API, and provided some examples. Now that you’re familiar with the basics, you can start building your own applications that use Product Hunt’s data.