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.

Is this a Stack Overflow API alternative?

Yes. If you want to scrape Stack Overflow without an API key, this actor is a practical Stack Overflow API alternative — it queries the public Stack Exchange API anonymously and returns flat rows ready for analysis, no registration required.

How do I export Stack Exchange data to CSV or JSON?

Run the actor for your chosen site and tag, then download the resulting dataset. Stack Exchange data export to CSV, JSON, Excel or XML is one click in the Apify Console, or pull a Stack Overflow questions dataset in JSON straight from the Apify API.

Can I export Stack Overflow questions by tag?

Yes. Set the Tag field (e.g. python) and the actor returns every matching question with title, score, views, answers, author and dates — ideal for building a tagged Stack Overflow questions dataset.

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Changelog

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for Stack Overflow API alternative, exporting Stack Exchange data to CSV/JSON, and pulling a Stack Overflow questions dataset by tag.