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 login required for URL scraping. Question pages and Space posts are scraped fully logged-out — paste a URL and go. Cookies are only needed if you want keyword search (Quora hides search results from logged-out visitors).

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"]	✅ Yes	Matching questions across Quora
Search URL — quora.com/search?q=…	✅ Yes	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 — pass plain keywords instead of hand-building search URLs (cookies required).
• 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.
3. Cookies (only for keyword search): if — and only if — you use keyword search, log in to quora.com, export the quora.com cookies with a cookie-editor extension and paste the JSON array into the Cookies field. Extensions that work:
   • Copy Cookies
   • Cookie-Editor
   • EditThisCookie
4. (Optional) configure proxy settings for enhanced reliability.
5. Run the scraper.
6. Collect data in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or any format Apify supports.

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 — cookies required

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,
    "cookies": [{ "name": "m-b", "value": "…", "domain": ".quora.com" }]
}

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? Not for question or Space URLs — those are scraped fully logged-out. Only keyword search needs cookies, because Quora returns no search results to logged-out visitors.

Why did my search run return nothing? Keyword search without cookies comes back empty by design. Add cookies, or scrape question/Space URLs directly instead.

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

My cookies stopped working. Re-export them from a logged-in browser session. Cookies typically stay valid for months.

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

⚠️ 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.