🚀 Advanced Quora Scraper

Extract detailed information from Quora searches, including Questions, Answers, Posts, and user Profiles. Uncover valuable insights, track discussions, and analyze public sentiment with this powerful and flexible scraping tool.

📜 Overview

This actor allows you to automate data collection from Quora.com at scale. Instead of manually searching and copying, you can provide a list of keywords or direct URLs and let the scraper do the work. It navigates Quora like a real user, handling logins and scrolling, to extract structured data from search results pages.

This tool is ideal for market researchers, data analysts, and anyone looking to gather deep insights from one of the world's largest question-and-answer platforms.

✨ Features

• Multi-Content Scraping: Extract data from Questions, Answers, Posts, and user Profiles.
• Flexible Targeting: Use simple keywords, direct Quora URLs, or a custom Query Language (QQL) for advanced scraping.
• Time-Based Filtering: Narrow down search results by Past Day, Week, Month, or Year to track recent trends.
• Customizable Limits: Control the exact number of results to scrape for each of your queries.
• Handles Authentication: Securely uses your login cookie to access Quora as a logged-in user, which is now required for most searches.
• Robust Proxy Support: Integrates seamlessly with Apify's proxy network for enhanced reliability and to prevent blocking.
• Rich Data Extraction: Scrapes key data points, including titles, URLs, answer counts, author details, upvote counts, and posted times.

⚙️ How to Use

1. Log in to your Quora account in a regular browser tab.
2. Get your cookie by following the detailed authentication steps below. This is the most important step.
3. Configure your input fields on this page (add your queries, select a search type, etc.).
4. Run the actor and wait for the process to complete.
5. Download your data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or any other format from the Storage tab of the run.

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⚠️ IMPORTANT: Authentication

Quora requires you to be logged in to see most search results. To allow the scraper to run on your behalf, you must provide it with your m-b session cookie.

How to get your m-b cookie:

1. Log in to www.quora.com in Chrome or Firefox.
2. Open Developer Tools by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I (on Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Option+I (on Mac).
3. Go to the "Application" Tab. You may need to click the >> icon in the toolbar to find it.
4. Find Cookies for Quora. On the left-hand menu, navigate through the list to Storage -> Cookies -> https://www.quora.com.
5. Locate the m-b cookie. A table of cookies will appear. Find the row with the name m-b.
6. Copy the Cookie Value. Click on the m-b row. In the "Cookie Value" field that appears below the table, copy the long string of characters.
7. Paste into the Actor Input. Go back to the Actor input configuration on this page and paste the value into the value field for the loginCookies input.

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📥 Input Configuration

Field	Description
queries	The search terms or URLs to scrape. Accepts keywords (e.g., implant concern), full Quora URLs, and a custom Query Language (see below).
searchType	The type of content to search for. Options: Question, Answer, Post, Profile. Defaults to Question. Note: Quora uses the internal name tribe for Space searches.
timeFilter	Filter results by time period. Options: All Time, Past Day, Past Week, Past Month, Past Year. Defaults to All Time.
maxItemsPerQuery	The maximum number of results to scrape for each query. Set to 0 to get all available results. Defaults to 50.
loginCookies	Required. Your m-b authentication cookie. See the detailed instructions above.
proxyConfiguration	Highly recommended. Use Apify RESIDENTIAL proxies for the best results and to avoid being blocked by Quora.

Quora Query Language (QQL)

For more advanced targeting, the queries field also accepts the following special formats:

Format	Example	Description
@username	@elon-musk	Scrape a user's profile page directly.
question:id	question:1234567	Go directly to a specific question page.
answer:id	answer:9876543	Go directly to a specific answer.

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📤 Output Examples

The scraper will output a list of items based on your search. The structure of each item will vary depending on the searchType.

Question Result

{
  "query": "implant",
  "type": "Question",
  "foundOn": "[https://www.quora.com/search?q=implant&type=question](https://www.quora.com/search?q=implant&type=question)",
  "title": "What are the benefits of dental implants?",
  "url": "[https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-benefits-of-dental-implants](https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-benefits-of-dental-implants)",
  "answerCount": 144,
  "postedTime": "Last followed Feb 1"
}


💬 Support & Disclaimer
For any issues, feature requests, or questions, please use the Issues tab on this actor's page in the Apify Console.

This actor is designed for responsible data collection. Please respect Quora's terms of service. The structure of Quora's website may change over time, which could affect this actor's functionality. The author is not responsible for any use of the scraped data.