Quora Scraper — Questions, Answers, Spaces & Search

Overview

Uncover valuable insights and expert opinions across a wide range of topics. This Quora scraper extracts questions, full answers, Space posts and engagement metrics, giving you a comprehensive view of discussions on the platform.

No cookies needed for anything. Question pages and Space posts are scraped fully logged-out, and keyword search runs on a managed session behind the scenes — so every mode works with zero setup. Just paste URLs or type keywords.

What you can scrape

Input	Cookies needed?	What you get
Question URL — quora.com/How-do-black-holes-form	❌ No	Every answer: full text, view count, upvotes, comments, author, credential, timestamps
Space post URL — humanity.quora.com/…	❌ No	Post body, title, images, views, upvotes, shares, comments, author, owning Space
Keyword search — searchQueries: ["machine learning"]	❌ No	Matching questions across Quora
Search URL — quora.com/search?q=…	❌ No	Same as above

Features

• Cookie-free question scraping — all answers on a question, paginated to the end, with no account and no cookie export.
• Space / subdomain posts — scrape *.quora.com Space posts including the owning Space name and engagement metrics.
• Full answer content — the complete answer text, not a truncated preview.
• Answer metrics — upvotes, view counts and comment counts per answer.
• Author information — non-sensitive author details: display name, profile URL and credential.
• Keyword search, no cookies — pass plain keywords instead of hand-building search URLs; search runs on a managed session, so no account or cookie export is needed.
• Customizable — flexible configuration to suit various scraping needs, with proxy support.

How to use

1. Set up: ensure you have an Apify account.
2. Configure input: paste question / Space URLs into Start URLs, or enter keywords under Search keywords. No cookies or login needed for any of it.
3. (Optional) configure proxy settings for enhanced reliability.
4. Run the scraper.
5. Collect data in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or any format Apify supports.

Advanced: the Cookies field is optional and only exists if you want keyword search to run as your own Quora account. Leave it empty otherwise.

Input examples

Question URL — no cookies

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.quora.com/How-do-black-holes-form" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Space post URL — no cookies

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://humanity.quora.com/She-was-the-quiet-strength-behind-his-genius" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Keyword search — no cookies

Give searchQueries a list of keywords and each one becomes its own quora.com/search?q=… crawl. Keyword results are merged with anything in startUrls and de-duplicated, so you can mix the two freely.

{
    "searchQueries": ["machine learning", "remote work"],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Output structure

Answer (from a question URL)

{
    "aid": 133425545,
    "id": "QW5zd2VyQDA6MTMzNDI1NTQ1",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/How-are-black-holes-formed-1/answer/Rishi-Munipalli",
    "content": "Black holes are formed when super massive stars die. To understand how a black hole is formed we first need to understand how a star takes birth…",
    "creationTime": "2019-04-12T04:57:41.316Z",
    "numUpvotes": 52,
    "numViews": 7256,
    "qid": 5479984,
    "isAuthorAnon": false,
    "uid": 239669543,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Rishi-Munipalli",
    "names": [
        { "givenName": "Rishi", "familyName": "Munipalli" }
    ]
}

Space post (from a *.quora.com URL)

{
    "record_type": "space_post",
    "pid": 253578461,
    "id": "UG9zdEAwOjI1MzU3ODQ2MQ==",
    "url": "https://humanity.quora.com/She-was-the-quiet-strength-behind-his-genius",
    "title": "She was the quiet strength behind his genius…",
    "content": "Gabriel García Márquez proposed to Mercedes Barcha at a local dance in Colombia…",
    "images": ["https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-…"],
    "numViews": 2189,
    "numUpvotes": 50,
    "numComments": 0,
    "numShares": 1,
    "creationTime": "2026-08-07T00:22:17.446Z",
    "space": { "name": "Humanity", "tribeId": 1575194 },
    "isAuthorAnon": false,
    "uid": 1343396776,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Pusp-L",
    "names": [
        { "givenName": "Pusp L.", "familyName": "" }
    ]
}

Question summary (from search results)

{
    "index": 1,
    "qid": 101059049,
    "id": "UXVlc3Rpb25AMDoxMDEwNTkwNDk=",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-Web3-and-why-does-it-matter",
    "title": "What is Web3, and why does it matter?",
    "creationTime": "2021-09-27T06:20:50.336Z",
    "answerCount": 19
}

FAQ

Do I need a Quora account or cookies? No. Question and Space URLs are scraped logged-out, and keyword search runs on a managed session for you — every mode works with zero setup.

How many answers do I get per question? All of them, up to your maxItems limit — the scraper pages through the full answer list.

Can I search as my own account? Yes, optionally — paste your quora.com cookies into the Cookies field and search runs as you. Not required; leave it empty to use the managed session.

Support

• For issues or feature requests, please use the Issues section of this actor.
• If you need customization or have questions, feel free to contact the author:
  • Author's website: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
  • Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

Additional Services

• Request customization or whole dataset: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• If you need anything else scraped, or this actor customized, email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• For API services of this scraper (no Apify fee, just usage fee for the API), contact: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for AI agents calling this actor via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API (actor: memo23/quora-scraper).

Purpose: Scrape Quora question answers, Space posts and keyword-search results fully logged-out — full answer text, engagement metrics and non-sensitive author details.

Minimal input:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.quora.com/How-do-black-holes-form" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 25
}

Output: one row per answer / Space post / question summary — aid, id, url, content, creationTime, numUpvotes, numViews, qid, isAuthorAnon, uid, profileUrl, names [{ givenName, familyName }]; Space posts add record_type, pid, title, images, numComments, numShares, space { name, tribeId }; search summaries add index, title, answerCount.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• Two input modes: startUrls (question pages and *.quora.com Space posts) and searchQueries (plain keywords, each becomes a quora.com/search?q=… crawl). They merge and de-duplicate, so you can mix them.
• No cookies needed for any mode; question/Space URLs run logged-out and keyword search uses a managed session.
• Always set maxItems; each answer (or Space post) is one row and a single question can page to hundreds of answers.
• cookies is optional — supply your own only to run keyword search as your own Quora account.
• Pay-per-event billing — see the Pricing tab on the actor page.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This scraper collects only publicly available data from Quora. It does not bypass any login wall or access private content. Use the data responsibly and in line with Quora's terms of service and applicable data-protection law in your jurisdiction.

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