Quora Email Scraper

Quora Email Scraper — Public Writer Emails by Keyword

Quora Email Scraper searches public Quora pages for your keywords and returns every page that shows an email address, with the page title, a short text snippet and the direct link. Each keyword runs as its own search, so a list of niches becomes one combined lead list. Every response is structured JSON, ready for an LLM, a CRM or an outreach pipeline. No Quora account, login or cookies are needed. Start with a couple of keywords, then scale up once you see the leads each one returns.

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What data can I extract with Quora Email Scraper?

Using this Quora Email API, you will be able to extract the following Quora page data:

📧 Email	🔗 Page URL	🏷️ Title	🔎 Keyword
📝 Description (snippet)	🌐 Network (always quora.com)

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How to use Quora Email Scraper

Anyone building a lead list from Quora — growth marketers, recruiters, sales teams — gets a combined list of public pages that mention an email address, from a single run with as many keywords as they need.

Copy to your AI assistant:

Quora Email Scraper is an Apify Actor that returns public Quora pages matching a list of keywords as structured JSON: the keyword that matched, the page title, a text snippet, the page URL and the email address shown on it. Use it whenever someone needs freelancer, writer or expert leads from Quora without a login, a browser, or hand-checking search results - building an outreach list by niche, finding contributors in a city, or monitoring which answers in a space publish contact details. Inputs: keywords (array of strings, required, one search per keyword), location (string, optional city or region filter), emailDomains (array of strings, optional, e.g. "@gmail.com" - keeps only matching domains and sharpens the search), maxEmails (integer 1-100000, default 10, maximum emails to return per keyword), proxyConfiguration (object, default automatic - optional custom proxy settings). Free-plan accounts are limited to 20 emails per keyword per run and 200 per month; paid plans have no limit. Each new email returned is billed as one "row_result" event.

Step by step

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Quora Email Scraper in the Apify Store.
3. Enter one or more keywords (e.g. "resume writer", "fitness coach").
4. Click Start.
5. Download or stream your results in JSON, CSV or Excel.

How to scale Quora Email Scraper to bulk

Collect quora writer contact email leads in bulk by adding as many keywords as you need to the keywords list in a single run — up to three keywords are searched at the same time, and each one keeps its own result limit and de-duplication, so a 50-keyword run returns one combined, duplicate-free list without any extra setup. For recurring lead lists, schedule the same input on a daily or weekly Apify schedule instead of running it by hand.

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✨ Features

Quora Email Scraper fetches clean, structured email leads from public Quora pages ⚡. You can scrape emails from quora answers by keyword, location and domain in a single run. As a quora lead generation tool, it's ideal for outreach list building, freelancer sourcing and market research by niche.

It extracts, per result:

• Email – the public email address found on the page, lower-cased
• URL – direct link to the public Quora page, so you can verify the source
• Title – the page's title (usually the question/answer title or the writer's name)
• Keyword – which of your input keywords found this result
• Description – the public text snippet shown with the result (answer or bio text, up to 500 characters)
• Network – always quora.com for this actor

⚡ No Quora account, login or cookies needed — every row is read from a page anyone can already see.

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Use cases 💡

Use it to find quora user emails for outreach, recruiting or market research.

• Growth marketer — build outreach lists of freelancers and experts by niche keyword and city.
• Recruiter — find writers, consultants and specialists who publish a public contact address.
• Sales rep — spot small-business owners and freelancers active on Quora in a target market.
• Community researcher — see which public answers in a niche share contact details.
• AI agent builder — feed matched emails straight into a lead-enrichment or outreach pipeline.

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Why choose this actor?

As a quora email finder, it keeps going past the first page of results instead of stopping early.

1. Keeps searching after the first page runs dry. Up to 15 search series run per keyword — the direct search plus profile-page, date-restricted, region-restricted and outreach-term variants — continuing until the keyword's limit is reached or there is nothing left to show.
2. Real extraction, not a guess. This quora contact email extractor checks each candidate address against the page's own markup to repair addresses split across inline formatting tags, and rejects it if it matches one of 36 known placeholder patterns ("username@...", "johndoe@...") or trails off after an ellipsis.
3. Built to keep running through blocks. A four-tier proxy fallback (your own proxy URLs → your Apify proxy settings → the default search proxy group → a direct connection) and up to 3 retries per page keep a keyword moving instead of failing on the first blocked page.

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⬇️ Input

Quora Email Scraper accepts a list of keywords; every other field is optional. keywords is the only required field.

Parameter	Required	Type	Description	Example value
keywords	✅ Yes	array	One or more keywords. Each keyword is searched separately; more specific keywords give more targeted leads.	["resume writer", "fitness coach"]
location	No	string	Optional city or region. Only pages that mention this place are kept. Default: empty (worldwide).	"London"
emailDomains	No	array	Keep only emails of these domains (the @ is optional). Default: empty (any domain).	["@gmail.com", "@outlook.com"]
maxEmails	No	integer	Maximum emails to return per keyword, 1-100,000. Default: 10. Free plan: 20/keyword/run, 200/month.	100
engine	No	string	Processing engine; only "legacy" is available. Default: "legacy".	"legacy"
proxyConfiguration	No	object	Connection settings. Default: automatic proxy selection.	{"useApifyProxy": false}

Free plan limits

Users on the Apify free plan can fetch up to 20 items per run (all keywords together) and 200 items per month. When the limit is reached, the run finishes successfully with a status message explaining the limit. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["resume writer", "fitness coach"],
  "location": "London",
  "emailDomains": ["@gmail.com", "@outlook.com"],
  "maxEmails": 100,
  "engine": "legacy",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

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⬆️ Output

Every result is one typed, normalized JSON item with the same six fields on every run, pairing a quora writer contact email with the page that published it. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel directly from the dataset.

Example output

[
  {
    "network": "quora.com",
    "keyword": "writer",
    "title": "Send an email: yomiajao123@gmail.com WhatsApp number",
    "description": "Ajiboye Olalekan. A Professional Resume Writer with 4 years experience · 2y ·. Send an email: yomiajao123@ gmail.com . WhatsApp number: +2348083181662.",
    "url": "https://ajiboyesprofessionalresumewriter.quora.com/Send-an-email-yomiajao123-gmail-com-mailto-yomiajao123-gmail-com-WhatsApp-number-2348083181662",
    "email": "yomiajao123@gmail.com"
  }
]

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How does it work?

Quora Email Scraper searches Google for public Quora pages that match your keywords and pulls the contact details shown in them. Requests go through rotating proxies, and a blocked or failed page is retried automatically with a fresh connection. The actor never logs in to Quora and only reads what any visitor to a public page already sees — no account, cookies or private data are involved. The output schema is fixed (network, keyword, title, description, url, email) and stays the same from run to run, so downstream code never has to adapt when Quora changes its page layout.

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How do you integrate Quora Email Scraper into your stack?

Quora Email Scraper works with what you already use: a REST API from any language, and no-code tools for teams that don't write scrapers by hand.

No-code tools (n8n, Make, LangChain)

In n8n, use the Apify node's "Run an Actor" action, or the HTTP Request node pointed at the Actor's run-sync endpoint with your Apify token. In Make, use the Apify app's "Run an Actor" module followed by "Get Dataset Items" to pull the results into your scenario. In LangChain, install langchain-apify and call ApifyActorsTool() to let an agent run the actor and read its dataset directly.

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Is it legal to scrape Quora data?

Scraping publicly available data is generally permissible, but how you use what you collect is your responsibility. As a quora public profile email scraper, it only returns information shown on public pages — the same text any visitor sees without logging in. Under GDPR and similar laws, scraping public data is generally allowed, but storing and using it must comply with local data-protection law, and sending unsolicited bulk email to addresses collected this way can fall under anti-spam laws like CAN-SPAM. Consult legal counsel if your use case involves bulk storage of personal data.

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Frequently asked questions

What fields does Quora Email Scraper return?

Every result includes the email address, the page title, the page URL, the keyword that matched and a text snippet. Use it to find email address on quora matches together with the page that published them. See the data fields section.

Does Quora Email Scraper require a Quora account or login?

No. Only public page data is extracted. No credentials are needed, and the actor never logs in to Quora.

What happens if no public page shows an email for my keyword?

That keyword simply returns no rows instead of a guess — nothing is invented. Try a broader keyword, remove the location filter or add more email domains to widen the search.

Can I scrape multiple keywords at once?

Yes. Pass a list to keywords; up to three keywords are searched at the same time, and results stay grouped by the keyword that found them.

Does Quora Email Scraper return data in a format LLMs can use directly?

Yes. Every result is typed, normalized JSON with consistent field names — no HTML parsing or selectors. Pass it straight to an LLM, index it into a vector store, or feed it to an agent tool with no transformation step.

Can I use Quora Email Scraper without managing proxies or browser infrastructure?

Yes. Proxy rotation and retrying blocked pages run on the actor's side. You send one request and get structured JSON back — no proxy accounts or headless browser setup to maintain.

Which fields work best for AI training data and RAG indexing?

For RAG: the description and title fields carry the free text worth indexing. As a quora email address finder, its keyword, network and url fields stay stable, typed strings with no normalization needed for filtering.

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