Quora Answer Scraper

What does it do?

Quora Answer Scraper extracts questions and answers from Quora, the popular Q&A platform. It searches for topics you specify and collects question titles, answer text, author information, upvote counts, and related metadata. The actor uses Puppeteer to render the dynamic JavaScript pages and scrolls through answers to collect comprehensive data.

Why use this actor?

Quora contains millions of expert answers across every topic imaginable. This scraper enables content researchers, marketers, and data analysts to mine Quora for competitive intelligence, content ideas, audience sentiment, and knowledge base building. It automates what would otherwise be hours of manual browsing and copy-pasting.

How to use it

1. Go to the actor's page on the Apify platform.
2. Click Start to open the input configuration.
3. Enter one or more topics or questions to search for.
4. Set the maximum number of answers to collect.
5. Click Start and wait for the results.
6. Download your data in JSON, CSV, or Excel format from the Dataset tab.

You can also call this actor via the Apify API to integrate it into your automated data collection pipelines.

Input configuration

Field	Type	Description	Default
topics	array	Topics or questions to search for	["artificial intelligence", "web development"]
maxAnswers	integer	Maximum number of answers to collect	300
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings	Apify Proxy

Output data

Each item in the dataset contains:

{
    "question": "What is the future of artificial intelligence?",
    "answerText": "AI is rapidly evolving with developments in...",
    "author": "John Smith",
    "upvotes": 1250,
    "topic": "artificial intelligence",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-02-19T14:30:00.000Z"
}

Cost of usage

This actor uses Puppeteer (headful browser) for rendering JavaScript. A typical run scraping 2 topics with up to 300 answers takes about 3-8 minutes and costs approximately $0.05-0.20 in platform credits. The actor is priced at $0.30 per 1,000 results with pay-per-event pricing. Using residential proxies will increase costs.

Tips

• Use specific topics for more targeted and relevant results.
• Quora may require login for some content; this scraper extracts publicly visible data.
• Combine multiple related topics in one run to build a comprehensive knowledge base.
• Schedule periodic runs to track how answers and engagement change over time.
• If scraping is blocked, try enabling residential proxies in the proxy configuration.
• The answer text is truncated to 2,000 characters; most answers fit within this limit.
• Use the upvotes field to filter for the highest-quality, most endorsed answers.

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