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Stack Overflow Question Scraper - Search by Keyword & Tag

Stack Overflow Question Scraper - Search by Keyword & Tag

Search Stack Overflow by keyword and get structured questions back: score, view count, answer count, tags, and whether it is answered. A question with high views and no accepted answer is a problem many people have and nobody has solved.

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Stack Overflow Question Scraper

Search Stack Overflow by keyword and get structured questions back — score, view count, answer count, tags, whether it is answered, and the body.

Useful when you want the questions rather than the answers: what people are struggling with in a topic, how much attention it gets, and whether anybody has solved it yet.

Input

FieldDefaultWhat it does
searchTermsa sample listOne or more free-text queries; each is searched separately
tags[]Optional tag filter, e.g. ["python", "django"]
maxResults100Maximum questions per search term
{ "searchTerms": ["invoice software", "booking system"], "maxResults": 50 }

Output

One row per question:

FieldTypeExample
questionIdinteger11227809
titlestringWhy I cannot send email with siwapp invoicing software?
urlstringlink to the question
textstringquestion body as HTML
authorstringdisplay name of the asker
tagsarray["java", "c++", "performance"]
scoreintegernet votes
viewCountintegertotal views
answerCountintegernumber of answers
isAnsweredbooleanwhether an answer is accepted
datestringISO 8601, when the question was asked
searchTermstringwhich of your terms produced this row
scrapedAtstringISO 8601 timestamp of capture

searchTerm is carried on every row so results from several queries stay attributable after you merge them.

What it is good for

  • Finding unmet need — a high viewCount with isAnswered: false is a question many people have and nobody has resolved.
  • Product and content research — the wording people use for a problem is the wording to use back at them.
  • Tag-scoped monitoring — combine tags with a term to watch one ecosystem rather than the whole site.

Notes and limits

  • Backed by the public Stack Exchange API, which is rate limited. Large runs are paced accordingly, and very large ones may return fewer rows than requested.
  • Search is full-text relevance across the question, not a title-only match, so a term appearing only in the body still matches. Sort by score or viewCount if you want the well-known ones first.
  • text is HTML as Stack Overflow stores it, not plain text; strip the tags if you need prose.
  • Author display names are published on Stack Overflow. No e-mail addresses or private profile data are collected.