Stack Overflow Scraper - Questions by Tag

Scrape developer questions from Stack Overflow and any of the 170+ Stack Exchange Q&A sites by tag, site and sort order. This Stack Exchange questions scraper uses the official public API, paginates automatically, and returns flat structured rows — no login, no API key, no proxy.

🟢 No Stack Exchange account. No API key. No proxy. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

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What you get

Every question record includes:

• questionId — Stack Exchange question ID
• title — question headline
• link — direct URL to the question
• tags — list of tags (e.g. python, react, kubernetes)
• author — asker's display name
• authorReputation — asker's reputation score
• score — net upvotes
• viewCount — total views
• answerCount — number of answers
• isAnswered — whether the question has an accepted-or-positive answer
• hasAcceptedAnswer — accepted-answer flag
• createdAt — creation timestamp (ISO)
• lastActivityAt — last-activity timestamp (ISO)
• scrapedAt — when the row was collected

Flat, 14-column schema — drop straight into a spreadsheet, warehouse or LLM pipeline.

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Use cases

• Developer-insight / pain-point research — see what users actually struggle with for a language, framework or product by mining tagged questions.
• Product & competitor monitoring — track questions tagged with your tool or a competitor's on a schedule.
• FAQ & SEO content generation — surface high-view, high-score questions to turn into docs and articles.
• Support intelligence — quantify recurring issues by tag, score and view count.
• LLM training data — assemble large, structured developer Q&A corpora for fine-tuning or RAG.

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How to use

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Set Site — stackoverflow, serverfault, superuser, askubuntu, dba, datascience, or any Stack Exchange site short ID.
3. Set Tag to filter (e.g. python); combine multiple tags with ;, or leave empty for all.
4. Choose Sort — activity, creation, votes or hot.
5. Set Max Questions (0 = paginate until exhausted), run, and export as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML.

Schedule the actor for daily monitoring of a tag or product to keep a fresh Q&A feed.

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FAQ

Do I need a Stack Exchange API key?

No. The actor uses anonymous Stack Exchange API access. No account, key or proxy is required. Anonymous usage is subject to the API's daily quota, which the actor respects with backoff.

Which sites can I scrape?

Any of the 170+ Stack Exchange network sites — Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Ask Ubuntu, DBA, Data Science, Code Review, Cross Validated, Software Engineering, DevOps and more. Just enter the site's short ID.

Can I filter by multiple tags?

Yes. Enter several tags separated by ; in the Tag field to narrow results to questions carrying all of them.

Which export formats are supported?

Each run is stored in an Apify Dataset, downloadable as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or accessible via the Apify API.