This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Quora Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; small internal maintenance is intentionally omitted.
Reliability
- Credential-free questions blocked on the first metadata attempt now retry with live browser rendering. Missing questions and exhausted failures remain honest errors; available mixed-batch output is preserved.
Integrations
- Added private, sanitized failure diagnostics to help investigate unavailable metadata and exhausted requests. Secret fields and URL queries are removed; extraction and charging behavior are unchanged.
Fixes
- Credential-free extraction no longer returns or charges for missing questions or upstream error pages. Mixed batches still keep available question results; batches with no available question report a metadata-unavailable error.
Reliability
- Credential-free batches now keep valid direct question results when another URL is unsupported; skipped URLs are reported in the run log. Search and answers still require cookies.
Reliability
- Direct question URL requests without cookies now return question metadata when API callers omit the answer option. Explicit answer requests still require cookies.
Reliability
- Direct question URLs now have a credential-free metadata path that returns live titles, descriptions, and answer counts, giving the prefilled workflow useful output without storing session credentials.
- Search, answer, topic, space, and profile workflows still require valid session cookies; malformed and placeholder cookies continue to fail before browser or proxy startup.
Reliability
- Missing, malformed, empty, and placeholder session cookies now fail fast with actionable diagnostics before proxy/browser startup and before the run-start charge.
- Input guidance and examples now consistently explain the required authenticated workflow.
- Dataset schemas now describe every output field and include a dedicated diagnostics view.
Pricing
- Added tiered pay-per-result pricing for questions and answers, including higher-volume discounts.
Reliability
- Runs that find no matching items now finish gracefully instead of reporting a misleading failure.
Reliability
- Added cookie-string support and restored 1024 MB memory for more reliable scraping.
Reliability
- Improved handling of PerimeterX anti-bot challenges to make public Quora extraction more resilient.
Features
- Initial public release for extracting Quora questions and answers.
