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Stack Overflow Search Scraper

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Specify a 馃攳search expression for retrieving Stack Overflow search results.

馃攳 What is Stack Overflow Search Scraper?

A scraper where you can get Stack Overflow search results for your search expression.

What search results data can I extract?

Question titleQuestion URL
Question IDDescription
Created timeViews count
Answers countViews count

How do I use Stack Overflow Search Scraper?

Stack Overflow Search Scraper was designed to be easy to start with even if you've never extracted data from Stack Overflow before. Here's how you can scrape Stack Overflow data with this tool:

  1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
  2. Open Stack Overflow Search Scraper.
  3. Add your search expression (required) and optionally a max results number.
  4. Click "Start" and wait for the search data to be extracted.
  5. Download your data in the preferred format.

Input data

You can fill the following input parameters before you start the Actor:

  • Search expression
  • Max. results number (optional)

Or if you want to use it with json, it looks like the following:

1**json format**
2
3```
4{
5"max_results": 15,
6"search": "python substring"
7}
8```

Output samples

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can find in the Storage tab.

#Question IDTitleURLCreatedViewsDescriptionAnswersVotes
1663171How do I get a substring of a string in Python?https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6631712009-03-19T17:29:413,781,623This question already has answers here: How slicing in Python works (38 answers) Closed 12 months ago. I want to get a new string from the third character to the end of the string, e.g. myString[2:end]. If omitting the second part means 'to the end', and if you omit the first part, does it start from the start?162656

Integrations and Stack Overflow Search Scraper

Stack Overflow Search Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate it with Google Sheets, Google Drive, Zapier, Asana, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, and more.

Using Stack Overflow Search Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to all your extracted data. With the REST API you can manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

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  • 5 monthly users
  • 1 star
  • 100.0% runs succeeded
  • Created in Jan 2024
  • Modified 4 months ago