Quora Scraper — Questions, Answers & Profiles

Extract structured data from Quora without logging in. Paste a question, profile, space, or topic URL and get back clean, flat records: answer text, author, credentials, upvotes, views, dates, plus question and profile metadata. The target type is auto-detected from each URL, so one Actor covers your whole Quora workflow.

Cookieless. No session tokens. MCP-ready for AI agents.

What you can scrape

Target	Paste this	You get
Question	https://www.quora.com/<question-slug>	Question title, topics, answer & follower counts, and every answer (author, text, upvotes, views, dates)
Profile	https://www.quora.com/profile/<name>	Name, verification, profile image, plus the person's recent answers (with credentials)
Space	https://www.quora.com/q/<space>	Questions and answers in the space
Topic	https://www.quora.com/topic/<topic>	Questions and answers under the topic

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Quora record scraped	$0.003 per record

A 50-record question scrape costs about $0.155. You only pay for records actually returned; anything skipped by your per-target limit is never charged.

Quick start

1. Paste one or more Quora URLs into Quora URLs (startUrls) — question, profile, space, or topic.
2. Set Max records per target (maxItemsPerTarget) — this is also your cost ceiling.
3. (Recommended) Choose residential proxies under Proxy configuration. Quora is behind Cloudflare; residential IPs clear it most reliably.
4. Run. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-programming",
    "https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerTarget": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Example output (one answer record)

{
  "type": "answer",
  "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-programming/answer/Jane-Doe",
  "questionTitle": "What is the best way to learn programming?",
  "questionUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-programming",
  "answerText": "Start by building small projects you actually care about...",
  "upvotes": 1243,
  "views": 58210,
  "createdAt": "2019-04-12T09:32:14.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2021-02-03T18:10:55.000Z",
  "authorName": "Jane Doe",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Jane-Doe",
  "authorCredential": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "authorIsVerified": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T22:41:00.000Z"
}

Profile records carry name, isVerified, profileImageUrl, and the person's recent answers (with authorCredential); bio and follower counts are included when Quora exposes them on the page. Question records carry questionTitle, answerCount, followerCount, askedAt, and topics[].

Why this Actor

• Cookieless — no Quora login, no session cookies to paste or rotate. Just URLs or keywords.
• Auto-detect — one input for questions, profiles, spaces, and topics. No mode flag to get wrong.
• Flat, agent-ready output — stable, semantic keys; rich text flattened to plain text; nulls omitted. Built for LLMs and spreadsheets alike.
• Honest billing — you see the cost ceiling before the run starts, pay only for real records, and blocked runs fail clearly instead of silently charging for nothing.
• MCP-ready — call it from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client as apify--quora-scraper.

Use cases

• Market & audience research — mine what real people ask and answer about your category, product, or competitor.
• Content & SEO — surface high-engagement questions (by views/upvotes) to inform articles and FAQs.
• Lead and expert sourcing — collect author names, credentials, and profile links of people answering in your niche.
• Training & analysis datasets — build Q&A corpora with author and engagement metadata.

How it works

The Actor opens each target in a headless Chromium browser (which clears Quora's Cloudflare protection), then passively captures Quora's own GraphQL responses and embedded page cache as the page loads and scrolls. It flattens Quora's serialized rich text into plain text and emits one flat record per answer, question, or profile. It scrolls to paginate up to your maxItemsPerTarget limit.

Tips for reliability

• Use residential proxies. Quora is protected by Cloudflare. Datacenter IPs are frequently challenged; residential IPs clear reliably. Select them under Proxy configuration.
• Set a country if you need geo-specific results.
• Keep concurrency moderate. The default of 5 balances speed and block-avoidance. Lower it if you see blocking.

Input reference

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Quora URLs (question / profile / space / topic). Type auto-detected. At least one required.
maxItemsPerTarget	integer	Max records per URL (also the cost ceiling). Default 50.
maxConcurrency	integer	Parallel browsers (1–10). Default 5.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. Residential recommended.

FAQ

Do I need Quora login cookies? No. This Actor is cookieless.

Why are some runs empty or blocked? Quora uses Cloudflare. On datacenter IPs you may be challenged. Switch to residential proxies for reliable access. Blocked runs end with a clear status message and do not charge for missing data.

Does it get private or login-gated content? No. It only collects publicly visible Quora content.

How much does a run cost? $0.005 to start plus $0.003 per record returned. A 50-record scrape ≈ $0.155.

Legal

Use this Actor only for publicly available data and in compliance with Quora's Terms of Service and applicable laws (including data-protection regulations). You are responsible for how you use the scraped data. This Actor does not access private, login-gated, or personal data beyond what Quora displays publicly.