Daily Product Hunt Tracker (n8n Workflow) — Setup & Run Guide

Get a daily Telegram message with the top 5 trending products on Product Hunt, automatically scraped and formatted by AI.

No APIs to parse, no brittle selectors — just tell TinyFish what you want in plain English, and an LLM formats it into a clean report.

What you get

Every day at 6 PM, a message like this lands in your Telegram:

🏆 Daily Product Hunt Trending Report
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🥇 CoolApp  (842 upvotes)
AI-powered workflow builder for teams
🏷 Productivity, AI, No-Code
🔗 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/coolapp

🥈 FastDB  (631 upvotes)
The database that scales itself
🏷 Developer Tools, Database, Infrastructure
🔗 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fastdb

...

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📅 2026-03-11

How it works

Schedule Trigger (daily at 6 PM)
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TinyFish Extract (scrapes Product Hunt homepage, stealth + SSE)
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IF Node (checks if data was returned)
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Format Report (OpenRouter LLM formats raw data into Telegram message)
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Telegram (sends the formatted report to your chat)

1. Schedule Trigger fires daily at 6 PM (configurable)
2. TinyFish visits producthunt.com in stealth mode and extracts the top 5 products — name, tagline, upvotes, tags, and URL
3. IF node checks the scrape returned data (skips if empty)
4. OpenRouter LLM takes the raw JSON and formats it into a clean, emoji-rich Telegram message
5. Telegram node sends the message to your chat or group

Prerequisites

API keys you need

Software

• n8n (Desktop, Docker, or Cloud)
• n8n-nodes-tinyfish community node

1) Install & open n8n

Option A — n8n Desktop

1. Download and install n8n Desktop
2. Open it — runs at http://localhost:5678

Option B — Docker

docker run -it --rm \
  -p 5678:5678 \
  -v ~/.n8n:/home/node/.n8n \
  n8nio/n8n

2) Install the TinyFish community node

1. In n8n, go to Settings > Community Nodes
2. Click Install
3. Enter: n8n-nodes-tinyfish
4. Install and restart n8n if prompted

3) Import the workflow

1. In n8n, click Workflows > Import from file
2. Select Daily Product Hunt Tracker via Tinyfish.json
3. Click Save

You should see these nodes on the canvas:

• Schedule Trigger
• TinyFish Extract
• If (data check)
• Format Report (LLM chain) + OpenRouter Chat Model
• Telegram

4) Set up credentials

4.1 TinyFish

1. Credentials > New > TinyFish Web Agent
2. Paste your TinyFish API key
3. Save and assign to the TinyFish Extract node

4.2 OpenRouter

1. Credentials > New > OpenRouter
2. Paste your OpenRouter API key
3. Save and assign to the OpenRouter Chat Model node

4.3 Telegram Bot

Create a bot

1. Open Telegram and search for @BotFather
2. Send /newbot and follow the prompts
3. Copy the bot token BotFather gives you

Get your Chat ID

1. Start a chat with your new bot (send it any message)
2. Visit https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>/getUpdates in your browser
3. Find "chat":{"id":123456789} — that number is your Chat ID

For group chats: add the bot to the group, send a message, then check getUpdates. Group chat IDs are negative numbers.

Configure in n8n

1. Credentials > New > Telegram API
2. Paste your bot token
3. Save and assign to the Telegram node
4. Open the Telegram node and replace YOUR_CHAT_ID with your actual Chat ID

5) Running the workflow

Test run (immediate)

1. Open the workflow
2. Click Execute workflow
3. Watch TinyFish scrape Product Hunt, the LLM format the data, and Telegram send the message
4. Check your Telegram — you should have a report

Activate for daily runs

1. Toggle the Active switch in the top right
2. The workflow will now run automatically every day at 6 PM

To change the time: open the Schedule Trigger node and adjust triggerAtHour.

Customization ideas

• Change the schedule: Run every 12 hours, every Monday, or on a cron expression
• Scrape a different site: Change the URL and goal in TinyFish — works with any website
• Swap the output: Replace Telegram with Discord (webhook), Slack, email, Notion, or Google Sheets
• Track more products: Change the goal to "top 10" instead of "top 5"
• Add filtering: Add a Code node after TinyFish to filter by category, minimum upvotes, etc.
• Change the LLM: Swap the OpenRouter model — any model works for formatting

Troubleshooting

No Telegram message received

• Make sure you started a conversation with the bot first (send it any message)
• Verify the Chat ID is correct — revisit the getUpdates URL
• For group chats, make sure the bot has permission to send messages

TinyFish returns empty data

• Product Hunt may have changed their layout — try adjusting the goal text
• Check your TinyFish API key and remaining credits
• Try running manually to see the raw output

LLM formatting looks wrong

• The AI system prompt defines the exact format — edit it in the OpenRouter Chat Model node
• If products are out of order, add "ranked by upvotes, highest first" to the prompt

Schedule not firing

• Make sure the workflow is toggled Active
• Check that your n8n instance is running at the scheduled time (Docker containers that stop won't trigger)

Quick checklist before first run

• Workflow imported
• TinyFish credential added and assigned
• OpenRouter credential added and assigned
• Telegram bot created via @BotFather
• Chat ID obtained and set in the Telegram node
• Test execution succeeds
• Workflow toggled Active for daily runs