📊 StackOverflow Scraper | $2.8/1K | Emails & Skills (No Key)

⚡ Use this Actor in n8n — no code

Building no-code workflows in n8n? Install our official community node and drop this Actor straight onto your canvas:

📦 n8n-nodes-apivault-stackoverflow

Setup (30 seconds): in n8n go to Settings → Community Nodes → Install, paste n8n-nodes-apivault-stackoverflow and confirm → add the new node to your workflow → paste your Apify API token → fill in the input and run.

Real-time Stack Overflow profile scraper with email and website extraction. Live data — not a stale database. No API key, no browser.

Why This Actor?

	This Actor	SO API	Database Scrapers
Data freshness	Real-time	Real-time	Cached, old
Auth required	No	Yes (API key)	No
Rate limit	High	300 req/day (free)	N/A
Email extraction	Yes (public)	No	Rarely
Website / Blog	Yes	Yes	Sometimes
Badges & Reach	Yes	Yes	No
Social links	Yes (from bio)	No	No
Field selection	You choose	Fixed	Fixed
Price per 1K	$2.8	Free (limited)	$5-20

Key Feature: Developer Emails & Websites

Stack Overflow developers often display their email and personal website publicly. This Actor extracts both — perfect for tech recruiting and developer outreach. The official SO API does NOT expose emails.

Configurable Fields

Field	Default	Description
Username	✅	SO display name
Full Name	✅	Full name
Bio / About	✅	Bio with social links (Mastodon, Twitter, etc.)
Location	✅	City, country
Reputation / Reach	✅	Reputation score or people reached
Answers / Questions	✅	Number of answers or questions
Profile URL	✅	Stack Overflow URL
Email	✅	Public email (key feature)
Website / Blog	✅	Personal website or blog
Specialization	✅	Category / tech stack
Other Metadata	✅	Badges, member since, top tags, collectives

Input

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
    "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff"
  ],
  "extractEmail": true,
  "extractWebsite": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "inputUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
  "username": "Jon Skeet",
  "fullName": "Jon Skeet",
  "bio": "Author of C# in Depth. Software engineer at Google...",
  "location": "Reading, United Kingdom",
  "reputation": 1524323,
  "answerCount": 35795,
  "profileUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
  "email": "skeet@pobox.com",
  "website": "http://csharpindepth.com",
  "specialization": "Software Engineering",
  "otherMetadata": "Member for 17 years; 895 gold, 9313 silver, 9352 bronze badges; Reached 425.9m"
}

Output contains only the fields you enabled.

Pricing

• $0.0028 per profile ($2.8 per 1,000 profiles)
• Pay only for results — no subscriptions
• Free Apify credits cover ~1,780 profiles/month

Performance

• 30-50 seconds per profile (real-time scraping)
• Up to 20 concurrent requests
• Works on all public Stack Overflow user profiles

Use Cases

• Tech recruiting — find developers with public emails by skill
• Developer outreach — contact open source contributors
• Talent sourcing — identify top answerers in specific technologies
• CRM enrichment — add SO reputation and skills to contacts
• Market research — analyze developer expertise distribution

Notes

• Only public profile data is extracted
• Email is only returned if the developer has set it as public
• Bio often contains social links (Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• "Reputation" maps to SO reputation score or people reached count
• "Other Metadata" includes badges, member since date, top tags, and collectives

Disclaimer

This Actor extracts only publicly available data. Ensure your use complies with applicable laws and Stack Overflow's terms of service.

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⚖️ Legal, Compliance & Acceptable Use

Please read this section carefully. By running this Actor you accept these terms.

Bottom line: this is a neutral, general-purpose software tool. It only retrieves information that is already publicly available. You — the user — decide what to search for and how to use the results, so you alone are responsible and liable for that use. The developer/operator of this Actor merely provides the tool and does not control, endorse, or take responsibility for what you do with it.

1. Public data only. The Actor accesses only publicly available information. It does not log in on your behalf, bypass access controls, or retrieve private, paywalled, or password-protected data.

2. You are the responsible party (data controller). For every run you start, you act as the data controller and are solely responsible for using the output lawfully. This includes having a valid lawful basis (for business/B2B use this is typically legitimate interest), honoring data-subject rights (access, correction, deletion, opt-out), and complying with all applicable laws and regulations — including, where relevant, the GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and similar privacy, marketing, and anti-spam laws (e.g. ePrivacy, CAN-SPAM, CASL, TCPA).

3. Not a Consumer Reporting Agency. This Actor and its operator are not a consumer reporting agency (CRA), and the output is not a "consumer report" under the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or similar laws. You must NOT use it, in whole or in part, to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, housing/tenancy, insurance, or any other FCRA-regulated purpose.

4. Respect third-party terms. You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of any website or platform whose public data you choose to process, and with any applicable intellectual-property rights.

5. No warranty. The Actor is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. Public data may be incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate — verify independently before relying on it. Availability of sources and fields can change at any time.

6. Prohibited use. Do not use this Actor or its output for stalking, harassment, discrimination, fraud, spam, or any unlawful or harmful purpose.

7. Indemnification. You assume all risk and liability arising from your use of this Actor, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold the operator harmless from any and all claims, losses, fines, or liabilities — including reasonable legal fees — resulting from your use or misuse of the Actor or its output, or from your breach of these terms or of any law.

This section is general information, not legal advice. If you are unsure whether your intended use is permitted, consult your own legal counsel before running this Actor.