Quora Question Scraper

Fetches one or more Quora question pages and returns the question title, the top answer snippet exposed in the page metadata, and the answer and follower counts when they are visible in the HTML. Useful for content research, question mining and tracking engagement on specific Quora threads.

Features

• Accepts a single questionUrl or a questionUrls list (duplicates removed)
• Question title taken from the page title, with the trailing "- Quora" removed
• Top answer snippet taken from the og:description metadata of the page
• Answer count and follower count parsed from the page text when present
• maxItems caps how many URLs are processed (1 to 100)
• Fetches pages through a residential proxy layer with retries, then falls back to a direct request

Input

Field	Type	Required / default	Description
questionUrl	string	optional	A single Quora question page URL
questionUrls	array of strings	optional	Multiple Quora question page URLs
maxItems	integer	default 10, min 1, max 100	Maximum number of questions to process

At least one of questionUrl or questionUrls must be provided, otherwise the run pushes a warning item and exits.

Example input:

{
  "questionUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-programming",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output

One dataset item per question URL:

• questionUrl - the URL that was requested
• question - question title
• topAnswerSnippet - text of the og:description tag (usually the beginning of the top answer), or null
• answerCount - number of answers, or null when not found in the HTML
• followCount - number of followers, or null when not found in the HTML
• scrapedAt - ISO timestamp of the extraction

Failed URLs produce an item with questionUrl, error (no-content or fetch-failed) and message.

{
  "questionUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-programming",
  "question": "What is the best way to learn programming?",
  "topAnswerSnippet": "Start with a language that has a gentle learning curve...",
  "answerCount": 152,
  "followCount": 2300,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event. The Actor charges the item-scraped event ("Item scraped") at $0.001 per question item successfully returned. Error and warning items are not charged. There is no separate Actor start fee.

Free plan

The Actor checks whether the run belongs to a paying Apify account. On the free plan maxItems is capped at 10 per run, so free users receive up to 10 real items to inspect the output format. Larger runs require a paid Apify plan.

Usage

From the Apify console, paste a question URL into questionUrl (or several into questionUrls) and click Start.

Via API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/gio21~quora-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"questionUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-programming", "maxItems": 10}'

Limitations

• Only question page URLs are supported, there is no keyword search or topic crawling
• Only one answer snippet is returned per question; full answers, author names and votes are not extracted
• answerCount and followCount rely on text patterns in the HTML and may be null
• Quora blocks automated traffic aggressively; blocked pages come back as fetch-failed or no-content items
• URLs are processed one at a time

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Quora or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.