producthunt

producthunt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AgentComputerAI/torch. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scraping guide for the Product Hunt homepage, a site that lists and ranks newly launched products. It explains how to read the homepage after opening it in a real Chrome browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect the current homepage leaderboard, including today's and older time-window sections, from the rendered page.
Why use it?
It handles Product Hunt's Cloudflare protection and the fact that homepage posts are embedded in the page rather than exposed through a documented data feed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to collect the current homepage leaderboard, including today's and older time-window sections, from the rendered page.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentcomputerai/torch/producthunt
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AgentComputerAI/torch --skill producthunt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentComputerAI/torch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for producthunt

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for producthunt

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,987 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00111 $0.01987
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.00795
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00199

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 464aa211d5d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

producthunt scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Anti-bot | Cloudflare managed challenge on bare curl → HTTP 403 |
skills/sites/producthunt/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Hunt (producthunt.com)

Cloudflare-gated homepage that renders the full daily/weekly/monthly leaderboard directly into HTML. No JSON blob, no API replay — just cheerio over the DOM after a real-Chrome navigation.

Detection

Signal Value
CDN Cloudflare (cf-ray, cf-mitigated: challenge)
Framework Custom React SSR (no __NEXT_DATA__, no __APOLLO_STATE__)
Anti-bot Cloudflare managed challenge on bare curl → HTTP 403
Auth None required for homepage
robots.txt Allows /

Bare curl https://www.producthunt.com/ → HTTP/2 403 with cf-mitigated: challenge. A puppeteer.connect to the user's real Chrome (127.0.0.1:9222) clears the challenge in <1s with zero intervention — no stealth plugin, no proxy, no captcha solver.

Architecture

Homepage is server-rendered HTML (~2.3 MB). All 92 posts for the current window are in the initial response under four sibling containers:

  • [data-test="homepage-section-today"] — ~74 posts
  • [data-test="homepage-section-yesterday"] — top 6
  • [data-test="homepage-section-last-week"] — top 6
  • [data-test="homepage-section-last-month"] — top 6

Each post is a <section data-test="post-item-<id>"> block.

Strategy used

  • Phase 0 (curl): blocked by Cloudflare (cf-mitigated: challenge, 403).
  • Phase 1 (framework JSON): no __NEXT_DATA__, no window.__APOLLO_STATE__. Skipped.
  • Phase 2 (browser): puppeteer.connect({ browserURL: "http://127.0.0.1:9222" }) → challenge clears instantly, HTML contains everything. Done.

Stealth config that works

None. Just connect to real Chrome:

const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
  browserURL: "http://127.0.0.1:9222",
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://www.producthunt.com/", { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
// Optional: poll title until it's not "Just a moment..."
await page.waitForSelector('section[data-test^="post-item-"]', { timeout: 15000 });

On teardown use browser.disconnect() — never browser.close() (would kill the user's real Chrome).

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 163 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 464aa211d5d3

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producthunt is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentComputerAI/torch (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,987 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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