Stack Overflow Questions Tracker

Stack Overflow Questions Tracker searches Stack Overflow questions by tag, keyword, or both — returning score, view count, answer count, accepted answer status, author reputation, and timestamps for up to 500 questions per run. Free Stack Exchange public API (no auth required, or supply a key for 10,000 req/day). $0.001/question.

The Stack Exchange API is reliable and free, but navigating pagination, tag intersection, and date filtering takes hours to implement. This actor handles it in one click.

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Why use Stack Overflow Questions Tracker?

1. Technology adoption research — Track question volume for a specific technology over time (e.g. python;pandas questions per month). Rising question frequency = growing developer adoption, even before Google Trends registers the trend.
2. Developer content intelligence — Find the highest-voted unanswered questions in your domain. These are your content marketing targets — write a blog post or documentation page that answers them.
3. Library comparison — Compare question volumes for competing libraries (react;typescript vs vue;typescript) to gauge relative developer mindshare.
4. Q&A monitoring for your own tech — Schedule daily runs on your library's tag to monitor question quality, response rates, and community health over time.
5. Recruiting signals — High question volume on niche topics (ZK proofs, Rust async, EVM assembly) reveals where engineering talent concentrations are forming before job market data catches up.

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How to use

1. Open the actor on Apify Store and click Try for free.
2. Set tags (semicolon-separated) and/or keyword — at least one is required.
3. Set minScore to filter out low-quality questions; answeredOnly: true to get only answered ones.
4. Set fromDate / toDate for time-range filtering.
5. Click Start. Returns one dataset record per question, sorted by vote count.

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Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
tags	string	—	Semicolon-separated tags, e.g. python;pandas;dataframe
keyword	string	—	Full-text search across titles and bodies
minScore	integer	0	Minimum question score (upvotes minus downvotes)
answeredOnly	boolean	false	Return only questions with at least one answer
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum questions to return (1–500)
fromDate	string	—	Start date in ISO 8601 format: 2024-01-01
toDate	string	—	End date in ISO 8601 format: 2024-12-31
apiKey	string	—	Stack Exchange API key for 10,000 req/day (optional)

At least one of tags or keyword is required.

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Output

{
  "question_id": 11227809,
  "title": "How do I check if a list is empty?",
  "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/...",
  "score": 3721,
  "view_count": 2854312,
  "answer_count": 29,
  "is_answered": true,
  "has_accepted_answer": true,
  "tags": ["python", "list"],
  "author": "Ray",
  "author_reputation": 12345,
  "creation_date": "2012-06-28T02:13:17+00:00",
  "last_activity_date": "2024-03-15T10:22:00+00:00",
  "fetched_at": "2024-09-01T08:00:00+00:00"
}

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Cost estimation

$0.001 per question returned.

Results	Cost
100 questions	$0.10
500 questions	$0.50
Daily 100-question monitor × 30 days	$3.00/month

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FAQ

Can I get questions with a specific accepted answer? Filter by answeredOnly: true and minScore to get high-quality resolved questions. The has_accepted_answer field in output lets you filter further downstream.

What's the difference between tags and keyword? tags filters by Stack Overflow's structured tag taxonomy (very precise — python;pandas finds Python + Pandas questions specifically). keyword does full-text search across title and body. Combining both returns tag results merged with keyword results, deduplicated by question_id.

How many requests can I make without an API key? 300 requests/day per IP. Each page fetches up to 100 questions, so you can retrieve ~30,000 questions/day without a key. For larger volumes, register a free API key at stackapps.com for 10,000 req/day.

Are deleted or closed questions included? No — the Stack Exchange API only returns questions visible to unauthenticated users. Deleted questions and spam-removed content are excluded.

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Related actors

• PyPI Downloads Tracker — Download stats to correlate with Stack Overflow question volume for the same Python libraries
• GitHub Repo Stats Tracker — GitHub stars/forks to complement Stack Overflow mindshare data
• AI Model Tracker — AI library pricing to pair with developer adoption signals from Stack Overflow

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