Quora Scraper - Questions, Answers & Profiles by Keyword

What is Quora Scraper?

Quora Scraper is a tool that lets you scrape questions, answers and public profiles from Quora by keyword or link: the full text of every answer with upvotes, views, shares, comments, dates and the author's name and credential; question details with answer count, followers and topics; and profiles with followers, answer counts and content views. Add a keyword or Quora links, click Start, and download the data as Excel, CSV or JSON.

• ⚡ Fast: over 2,000 answers a minute, a 500-answer question read in full in about 10 seconds (our tests)
• 🔎 Keyword search: type a topic and get the Quora questions about it, with all their answers
• 📚 Every answer on the page: not just the first few a visitor sees, read to the end of the list
• 👤 Author details on every answer: name, credential, photo, profile link and verified badge
• 🔓 No login: no Quora account needed
• 💸 Free to try: the $5 of free usage every Apify account gets each month covers about 6,200 answers

What can Quora Scraper do?

• Search Quora questions by keyword and get the questions about it, often 100 to 200 per keyword, with their answers or details
• Scrape all answers to a Quora question, with full text, upvotes, views, shares, comments and dates
• See who wrote each answer: the author's name, credential ("MA Physics, University of Oxford"), photo and profile link
• Tell answers apart: each answer says whether it was written for this question, for a duplicate question Quora merged into it, or for a related question (keep only the first two with one switch), and whether Quora's AI assistant wrote it
• Scrape Quora question details: title, number of answers, followers, comments and topics
• Scrape Quora profiles: followers, following, number of answers, questions and posts, all-time and last-month content views, work, education, location, Top Writer years and the topics a person knows about
• Scrape a Quora user's latest answers and questions from their profile link
• Paste any Quora link: a question, an answer (its question is read) or a profile, and old links of merged questions lead to the live question
• Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML, or send the data to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier and more

What data can you extract from Quora?

📝 Full answer text	👍 Upvotes	👁️ Views
🔁 Shares	💬 Comments	📅 Date written and edited
✍️ Author name and photo	🎓 Author credential	🔗 Author profile link
❓ Question title and link	🔢 Answer count	👥 Question followers
🏷️ Question topics	🧑 Profile followers and following	📊 Profile content views
💼 Work, education, location	🏆 Top Writer years	🧠 Topics a person knows about

How to scrape Quora

1. Create a free Apify account (no credit card needed).
2. Open Quora Scraper.
3. Pick what to scrape: Answers, Questions or Profiles.
4. Type search keywords, or paste Quora question or profile links, one per line.
5. Click Start, then download the data as Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML or XML.

How much does it cost to scrape Quora answers and questions?

You pay only for the rows you get, with one price per kind of row:

Apify plan	Answers per 1,000	Profiles per 1,000	Questions per 1,000
Free	$0.80	$2.00	$1.50
Starter (Bronze)	$0.72	$1.80	$1.35
Scale (Silver)	$0.64	$1.60	$1.20
Business (Gold) and higher	$0.55	$1.40	$1.05

Platform usage is included in these prices, so you pay nothing else. For example, 1,000 answers cost $0.80 on the Free plan and $0.55 on Business, and 100 profiles cost $0.20 on the Free plan. Max results per question or profile keeps the cost of a run under control, and you can also set a maximum cost per run.

Every Apify account gets $5 of free usage each month. See the Pricing tab for details.

⬇️ Input

Setting	What it does
What to scrape	Answers, Questions or Profiles (one per run)
Search keywords	Topics or phrases, one per line (learn python); each finds Quora questions about it (Answers and Questions only)
Max questions per keyword	How many questions to find for each keyword (default 20). Set 0 for as many as the search finds
Quora links	Question links (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life), answer links or profile links (https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo), one per line
Max results per question or profile	How many answers (or a profile's questions) to save for each question or profile (default 100). Set 0 for all of them
Include answers to related questions	On by default. Turn off to keep only answers to the question itself and to duplicates merged into it

Input	Answers	Questions	Profiles
Keyword	Every answer on each question found	Each question found	-
Question or answer	Every answer on the question page	The question's details	-
Profile	The person's latest answers	The questions the person asked	The profile

The 50 top answers of 30 questions about a topic:

{
  "dataType": "answers",
  "searchQueries": ["intermittent fasting"],
  "maxQuestionsPerSearch": 30,
  "maxItems": 50
}

All answers to two questions:

{
  "dataType": "answers",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life",
    "https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-a-latte-and-a-cappuccino"
  ],
  "maxItems": 0
}

Profiles of several people:

{
  "dataType": "profiles",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo",
    "https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-Frost-1"
  ]
}

⬆️ Output

Every answer, question or profile is one row, and the type field says which. The Overview tab shows the main columns for any kind, the detail tabs add more, and every field is in the downloads. An answer:

{
  "type": "answer",
  "answerId": 8470800,
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life/answer/Robert-Frost-1",
  "text": "We don't know.  We can't know.  But...\nEvery religion and every philosophy builds itself around attempting to answer this question...",
  "upvotes": 1604,
  "views": 136126,
  "shares": 1,
  "comments": 82,
  "createdAt": "2014-12-06T20:19:30Z",
  "updatedAt": "2015-04-15T22:28:14Z",
  "authorName": "Robert Frost",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-Frost-1",
  "authorCredential": "Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA",
  "authorImageUrl": "https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-2610890-200-wlzkqvuggmdsnvktkegihyfjgcyarrnp.jpeg",
  "authorIsVerified": false,
  "questionTitle": "What is the meaning of life?",
  "questionUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life",
  "answerTo": "this question",
  "isAiAnswer": false,
  "spaceName": null,
  "source": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T19:28:03Z"
}

A question:

{
  "type": "question",
  "questionId": 2861,
  "title": "What is the meaning of life?",
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-life",
  "answerCount": 424,
  "followerCount": 542,
  "commentCount": 30,
  "topics": ["Philosophy", "The Big Unanswered Questions", "Human Species", "Existential Nihilism"]
}

A profile:

{
  "type": "profile",
  "profileId": 335,
  "name": "Adam D'Angelo",
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo",
  "credential": "Quora CEO",
  "followerCount": 545934,
  "followingCount": 699,
  "answerCount": 998,
  "questionCount": 1053,
  "postCount": 212,
  "totalViews": 42634165,
  "lastMonthViews": 41509,
  "work": "Facebook (company)",
  "education": "California Institute of Technology (Caltech)",
  "location": "Lives in Mountain View, CA",
  "knowsAbout": ["Computer Science", "Facebook (company)", "Palo Alto, CA", "Startups"],
  "topWriterYears": [2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018],
  "isVerified": true,
  "joinedAt": "2009-10-05T23:20:05Z"
}

source is the keyword or link the row came from. answerTo says how an answer stands to the question it was listed under: this question, same question (written for a duplicate that Quora merged into it) or related question (Quora lists answers to similar questions on the same page). Question rows read from a profile have no topics.

How can I use Quora data?

• Market and audience research: what people ask and say about a product, a brand or a problem, in their own words
• Content ideas and SEO: the questions people ask in your niche and the answers that get the most views and upvotes
• Find experts and influencers: the people who write the most-viewed answers on a topic, with their credentials and followers
• Training and analysis data: long-form, human-written answers with engagement numbers, for sentiment, topic or quality analysis
• Brand monitoring: track the answers on questions about your company or competitors over time
• Lead generation: profiles of active writers in your field, with work, education and location

How many results can I get?

• Questions per keyword: often 100 to 200 for a popular topic, a handful for a very narrow one. Use several related keywords to find more.
• Answers on a question: every answer the question page lists, to the end of the list (hundreds on popular questions).
• A person's answers or questions: Quora shows visitors about the 40 latest answers and 40 latest questions of each profile.
• Profiles and question details: one row per link.
• Each answer is saved once per link.

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❓FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape Quora?

Answers cost $0.80, questions $1.50 and profiles $2.00 per 1,000 on the Free plan, with lower prices on paid plans. See How much does it cost to scrape Quora answers and questions? above.

How many answers can I scrape from Quora?

Every answer a question page lists, to the end of the list (hundreds on popular questions). A keyword often finds 100 to 200 questions for a popular topic. For a profile, Quora shows visitors about the 40 latest answers and 40 latest questions.

Do I need a Quora account?

No. You get the same public answers, questions and profiles without signing in.

Can I search Quora by keyword?

Yes. Add keywords under Search keywords: each one finds the Quora questions about it, and you get their answers (Answers) or the questions themselves (Questions). Every row's source is the keyword it came from. Results can differ a little from Quora's own search.

Why are there more answers than the question's answer count?

A Quora question page also lists answers written for duplicate and related questions. Each row says which with answerTo. Turn off Include answers to related questions to drop the related ones.

Does it work with Quora in other languages or Spaces?

It reads English Quora (www.quora.com). Answers posted in Spaces are included when they appear on a question or profile, with the Space name.

Can I call it as an API?

Yes. Run it through the Apify API from any language, or use its real-time API, /answers?url=<question link> or /answers?query=<keyword>, /questions?url=<question or profile link> or /questions?query=<keyword> and /profiles?url=<profile link>, which answers with the rows directly.

Can I connect Quora Scraper to other tools or AI agents?

Yes. Start runs and download results with the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients, send results to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets or Slack with Apify integrations and webhooks, or let AI assistants and agents run it through the Apify MCP server at mcp.apify.com.

Is it legal to scrape Quora?

This scraper only collects answers, questions and profiles that people chose to make public. It does not collect private data such as email addresses or private messages. Names, credentials and profile details are personal data, which may be protected by laws such as GDPR, so only scrape it for a legitimate reason and ask a lawyer if you are unsure. You can read more in Is web scraping legal?

Quora Scraper is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Quora.

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