product hunt, from the command line
A command line for Product Hunt. One pure-Go binary, two planes that share one post id, output that pipes into the rest of your tools, and a resource-URI driver other programs can address.
ph reads public Product Hunt data over plain HTTPS, shapes it into clean records, and gets out of your way.
ph feed # the keyless Atom feed of recent posts
ph post brainflow-2 # one post as a record
ph comments 1173164 # a post's comment thread (API plane)
ph serve --addr :7777 # the same operations over HTTP
It reads two planes that share one numeric post id and one record shape: the web plane on www.producthunt.com (the default, the keyless Atom feed at /feed) and the GraphQL API on api.producthunt.com (reliable, on when PRODUCTHUNT_TOKEN, or PRODUCTHUNT_CLIENT_ID and PRODUCTHUNT_CLIENT_SECRET, are set).
A feed read and an API read address the same record.
Output adapts to where it goes: an aligned table on your terminal, JSONL the moment you pipe it somewhere.
Two ways to use it
- As a command for reading Product Hunt by hand or in a script. Start with the quick start.
- As a resource-URI driver so a host like ant can address Product Hunt as
producthunt://URIs and follow links across sites. See resource URIs.
Both are the same code: one operation, declared once, is a CLI command, an HTTP route, an MCP tool, and a URI dereference.
Where to go next
- New here? Read the introduction, then the quick start.
- Installing? See installation.
- Doing a specific job? The guides are task-first.
- Need every flag? The CLI reference is the full surface.