💬 Stack Overflow Scraper — Questions, Tags & Votes

Search Stack Overflow — or any Stack Exchange site — by keyword and get clean, structured question data for every result: title, direct link, tags, score, view count, answer count, answered and accepted-answer flags, the asker's name and reputation, and the creation and last-activity dates. Filter to a specific tag and sort by relevance, votes, activity or creation date to surface exactly the questions you need.

The actor is powered by the public Stack Exchange API, so it is fast and reliable with no browser, no login and no API key. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🔎 What is the Stack Overflow Scraper?

Stack Overflow is the world's largest developer Q&A community, and the wider Stack Exchange network covers everything from server administration to data science, math and security. This actor turns a keyword search into a structured dataset: give it terms like asyncio or pandas merge, optionally restrict to a tag such as python, choose a sort order, and it returns the top matching questions as tidy rows.

Because it queries the official Stack Exchange API instead of scraping HTML, results are consistent and well-typed, and every row carries the engagement signals that matter — score, views, answers and whether an accepted answer exists — so you can instantly rank questions by popularity or spot unanswered gaps worth writing about.

What data does it extract?

• Question ID and title
• Link — the direct URL to the question
• Site — the Stack Exchange site the question is from
• Tags — the full list of tags on the question
• Score — net upvotes
• View count — total views
• Answer count — number of answers
• Is answered — whether the question has any answers
• Has accepted answer — whether an answer has been accepted
• Created date and last-activity date
• Asker — the display name of the author
• Asker reputation — the author's Stack Exchange reputation
• Query — the search term that surfaced the row

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	Description
searchTerms	array	Keywords to search, e.g. asyncio, pandas merge. One or many.
site	string	Stack Exchange site to search. Default stackoverflow (e.g. serverfault, superuser, datascience).
tagged	string	Optional: restrict results to a tag, e.g. python.
sort	string	Result ordering: relevance, votes, activity or creation. Default relevance.
maxPerTerm	integer	Max questions to return per search term. Default 20, up to 100.

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["asyncio", "pandas merge"],
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tagged": "python",
  "sort": "votes",
  "maxPerTerm": 50
}

⬆️ Output

Each question is one clean row (view as a table, or export JSON / CSV / Excel):

{
  "question_id": 123456,
  "title": "What is the difference between asyncio and threading?",
  "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123456/what-is-the-difference-between-asyncio-and-threading",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tags": ["python", "asyncio", "multithreading", "concurrency"],
  "score": 412,
  "view_count": 285000,
  "answer_count": 7,
  "is_answered": true,
  "has_accepted_answer": true,
  "created_date": "2016-03-12",
  "last_activity_date": "2025-11-02",
  "asker": "jdoe",
  "asker_reputation": 18452,
  "query": "asyncio"
}

💡 Use cases

• 👩‍💻 Developer & product research — find the most-viewed, highest-voted questions about a library, framework or error to understand what users struggle with.
• 📈 Tag & topic monitoring — track activity around the tags that matter to your project, tool or open-source library over time.
• ✍️ Content & SEO — discover high-traffic, poorly-answered questions to target with blog posts, docs and tutorials.
• 📊 Q&A datasets & NLP — build structured corpora of developer questions for analysis, benchmarking or LLM training.

❓ FAQ

How do I scrape Stack Overflow questions? Enter one or more searchTerms, optionally set tagged and sort, and Run. You get structured rows with title, link, tags, score, views, answers and asker.

Do I need an API key or login? No. It uses the public Stack Exchange API — just provide keywords.

Can I search other Stack Exchange sites? Yes — set site to any site slug, e.g. serverfault, superuser, datascience, askubuntu or math.

Can I filter by tag? Yes — set tagged (e.g. python) to restrict results to questions carrying that tag.

How can I sort the results? By relevance, votes, activity or creation date, so you can rank by popularity or find the newest questions.

Does it return answer bodies? No — it returns question metadata and engagement signals. Full answer text can bloat results, so it is omitted by design; the link takes you to the full thread.

How many questions can it return? Up to your maxPerTerm cap (max 100) for each search term.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes — schedule recurring runs on Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n.

How does pricing work? Pay per question returned — no subscription, no fixed monthly fee.

Is it legal? It uses the public Stack Exchange API. User-contributed content on the network is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-SA) — attribute it accordingly and follow Stack Exchange's terms.

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