ph-ai-tracker 0.1.0

Library to identify trending AI products on Product Hunt (API + scraping fallback).

ph_ai_tracker

A small Python library that finds trending AI products on Product Hunt.

• Primary: Product Hunt GraphQL API v2
• Secondary: Web scraping fallback (BeautifulSoup) for when the API is unavailable / rate-limited

Install (dev)

poetry install

Install (PyPI)

pip install ph-ai-tracker

Quickstart

from ph_ai_tracker import AIProductTracker

tracker = AIProductTracker(
    api_token="YOUR_PRODUCTHUNT_TOKEN",  # optional
    strategy="auto",                    # api | scraper | auto
)

result = tracker.get_products(search_term="AI", limit=20)
print(result.to_pretty_json())

Or from the terminal (prints pretty JSON):

poetry run python -m ph_ai_tracker --strategy scraper --search AI --limit 10

After installing from PyPI, you can also run:

ph-ai-tracker --strategy scraper --search AI --limit 10

Trending behavior

• --strategy api defaults to Product Hunt's RANKING order.
• The API client first attempts the artificial-intelligence topic; if the schema/topic query fails, it falls back to global posts and applies a client-side filter.

Product Hunt API token

Do not hardcode tokens in code or commit them to git.

Set your token as an environment variable:

export PRODUCTHUNT_TOKEN="<your_token>"
poetry run python -m ph_ai_tracker --strategy api --search AI --limit 10

Notes

• This project is intended to run well on PyPy 3.
• All tests are offline and use mocks/fixtures (no real network).