Product Hunt API V2 Node.js Library

The Product Hunt Node.js library provides convenient access to the Product Hunt Graphql V2 API from Node.js applications.

⚠️ Important note: this library is meant for server-side usage only, as using it in client-side browser code will expose your secret API key. See here for more details.

Installation

npm install node-producthunt-api

Usage

The library needs to be configured with your account's secret key, which is available in your Product Hunt account page. We recommend setting it as an environment variable. Here's an example of initializing the library with the API key loaded from an environment variable and creating a completion:

Init client

You can use your app dev token directly:

const { Configuration, ProductHuntAPI } = require("node-producthunt-api");

const configuration = new Configuration({
        apiKey: process.env.PRODUCT_HUNT_DEV_TOKEN,
})

or use your Oauth credentials If you have no token created:

const { Configuration, ProductHuntAPI } = require("node-producthunt-api");

const configuration = new Configuration({
        clientId: process.env.PRODUCT_HUNT_CLIENT_ID,
        clientSecret: process.env.PRODUCT_HUNT_CLIENT_SECRET,
        grantType: "client_credentials",
})

const { ProductHuntAPI } = require("node-producthunt-api");

const productHuntAPI = new ProductHuntAPI(configuration)

const { data } = await productHuntAPI
  .GetPosts({
    variables: {
      first: 20,
      order: "VOTES",
      postedAfter: new Date("2022/12/01"),
      after: "NjA",
      topic: "web3"
    }
  })
console.log(data.data.posts.edges)

Check out the full API documentation for examples of all the available functions.

Request options

All of the available API request functions additionally contain an optional final parameter where you can pass custom axios request options, for example:

const completion = await productHuntAPI
  .GetPosts(
    {
      variables: {
        first: 20,
        order: "VOTES"
      }
    },
    {
      timeout: 1000,
      headers: {
        "Example-Header": "example",
      },
    }
  );

CommonJs and ESModules Support

const { Configuration, ProductHuntAPI } = require("node-producthunt-api");

import { Configuration, ProductHuntAPI } from "node-producthunt-api"

Error handling

API requests can potentially return errors due to invalid inputs or other issues. These errors can be handled with a try...catch statement, and the error details can be found in either error.response or error.message:

try {
  const { data } = await productHuntAPI
  .GetPosts({
      variables: {
        first: 20,
        order: "VOTES"
      }
  });
  console.log(data.data.posts.edges);
} catch (error) {
  if (error.response) {
    console.log(error.response.status);
    console.log(error.response.data);
  } else {
    console.log(error.message);
  }
}

Roadmap

• Support Typescript typing
• Support for Oauth token middleware
• Add GetPosts query
• Add GetTopics query
• Add GetPost query
• Support dev token
• Add GetTopic query
• Add GetCollection/s query
• Add GetViewer/s query
• Add GetUser/s query
• Add GetMakerGroup/s query
• Add GetGoal/s query
• Add GetComment/s query
• Add mutation/s support