Stack Overflow Question Scraper - Search by Keyword & Tag
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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
| Field | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
searchTerms | a sample list | One or more free-text queries; each is searched separately |
tags | [] | Optional tag filter, e.g. ["python", "django"] |
maxResults | 100 | Maximum questions per search term |
{ "searchTerms": ["invoice software", "booking system"], "maxResults": 50 }
Output
One row per question:
| Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
questionId | integer | 11227809 |
title | string | Why I cannot send email with siwapp invoicing software? |
url | string | link to the question |
text | string | question body as HTML |
author | string | display name of the asker |
tags | array | ["java", "c++", "performance"] |
score | integer | net votes |
viewCount | integer | total views |
answerCount | integer | number of answers |
isAnswered | boolean | whether an answer is accepted |
date | string | ISO 8601, when the question was asked |
searchTerm | string | which of your terms produced this row |
scrapedAt | string | ISO 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
viewCountwithisAnswered: falseis 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
tagswith 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
scoreorviewCountif you want the well-known ones first. textis 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.