Quora Scraper

❓ Quora Scraper

Turn any keyword or Quora link into clean, structured data: questions with answer, follower and comment counts, full answer text with upvotes and views, plus profiles, topics, Spaces and posts. You don't need a Quora account, cookies or a login, and a typical search returns its first 10 results in a few seconds.

✨ Why use Quora Scraper?

• 🔎 Keyword search: type a phrase and get matching public Quora questions, answers, profiles, topics, Spaces or posts.
• 🔗 Direct links: paste question, answer, profile, topic, Space or post URLs and get one detailed record for each.
• 📊 Rich counts: answers, followers, comments, upvotes, views and shares, plus the date each question or answer was posted.
• 🔓 No login: only public pages are read, so there are no cookies to manage and no account to risk.
• ⚡ Fast and parallel: pages are fetched in parallel over residential proxies.
• 💸 Cheap: a flat price per saved record, and platform usage stays small.

🎯 Use cases

• 📈 Market and product research: see what people ask about your category, brand or competitors.
• ✍️ Content ideas and SEO: find the questions your audience really asks, ranked with their answer and follower counts.
• 🧠 Voice of the customer: collect long-form answers for sentiment and topic analysis.
• 🤖 AI and NLP datasets: build question and answer corpora from public discussions.
• 👥 Community and influencer discovery: find active writers, Spaces and topics in a niche.

🚀 How to use

1. Add one or more search queries (for example web scraping), or paste Quora URLs.
2. Pick the result type (questions, answers, profiles, topics, Spaces, posts or all types) and, optionally, a freshness window.
3. Set Maximum records per search or URL (default 10).
4. Click Start. Then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

📥 Input

{
  "queries": ["web scraping"],
  "startUrls": ["https://www.quora.com/What-is-web-scraping"],
  "searchType": "Question",
  "timeFilter": "All Time",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 10
}

📤 Output

Each record has a record_type and the same top-level shape, so you can mix types in one table.

A question from a keyword search:

{
  "record_type": "question",
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/How-does-web-scraping-work",
  "title": "How does web scraping work?",
  "posted_at": "2015-12-18T05:10:35.607647Z",
  "metrics": { "answers": 11, "followers": 12, "comments": 2 },
  "flags": { "is_locked": false, "is_sensitive": false },
  "question": {
    "id": 6241704,
    "slug": "How-does-web-scraping-work",
    "title": "How does web scraping work?",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/How-does-web-scraping-work",
    "posted_at": "2015-12-18T05:10:35.607647Z",
    "metrics": { "answers": 11, "followers": 12, "comments": 2 }
  },
  "source_context": {
    "seed_type": "keyword",
    "seed_value": "web scraping",
    "source_url": "https://www.quora.com/search?q=web%20scraping&type=question",
    "search_type": "Question",
    "search_time_filter": "All Time",
    "scraped_at": "2026-10-14T18:02:48.302740Z"
  },
  "status": { "has_results": true }
}

An answer (the author is a fictional example):

{
  "record_type": "answer",
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/Is-web-scraping-difficult/answer/Jane-Example",
  "title": "Is web scraping difficult?",
  "text": "It depends on the site. Static pages are easy; pages behind logins or heavy JavaScript take more work...",
  "author": { "name": "Jane Example", "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Jane-Example", "credential": "Data engineer" },
  "metrics": { "comments": 0, "shares": 0, "upvotes": 8, "views": 12459 },
  "posted_at": "2019-09-25T18:47:20.284974Z",
  "question": { "title": "Is web scraping difficult?", "url": "https://www.quora.com/Is-web-scraping-difficult" }
}

💰 Pricing

You pay $0.30 per 1,000 saved records ($0.0003 per record), plus a small amount of platform usage (compute and residential proxy traffic).

Example: a search that saves 1,000 question records costs $0.30 in record fees plus about $0.18 in platform usage, about $0.48 in total, and finishes in about two minutes. Runs that save nothing cost only the few seconds of compute they used.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Quora? The actor reads only public pages that anyone can open without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data. Respect Quora's terms, copyright and privacy laws such as the GDPR, especially for personal data.

Do I need a Quora account, cookies or my own proxy? No. The actor uses the platform's residential proxy by default.

How does keyword search work? Quora's own search is only available to logged-in members, so the actor finds public Quora pages that match your keywords through a web search index restricted to quora.com. It then opens each page on Quora to read the current title, counts, dates and text. Results are relevant to your query, but their order is not the same as Quora's in-app search.

How many results can I get? As many as the web index finds for your query. The index returns about 100 links per phrase, so larger jobs automatically widen your phrase with common question words (what, how, why, best, ...). Very narrow keywords can return fewer.

Why is a field missing in some records? Quora shows some details only on certain pages, and empty values are left out to keep records clean. For example, profiles have no posted_at, and logged-out question pages show only the first few answers.

Can I schedule runs or use the API? Yes. Schedule the actor, call it from the API or connect it to webhooks and integrations like any other actor.

⚠️ Limits

• Keyword search uses a web index, not Quora's in-app search. Pages Quora published in the last hour or day may not be indexed yet, so the Past Hour and Past Day filters can return few results. Results are filtered by their real Quora posting date.
• Answer search returns the answers shown on each matching question page (logged-out pages show the top few answers per question).
• Topic search returns the topic named like your query, plus the topics attached to matching questions.
• Private content, content behind logins and paywalled Spaces are not collected.