StackOverflow Scraper

Q&A & Dev Trends

Public Stack Overflow Q&A and developer trends.

📊 Sample Output

title	viewCount	tags	authorName	authorProfileUrl	creationDate
What does the "yield" keyword do in Python?	3499695	['python', 'iterator', 'generator', 'yield']	Alex. S.	https://stackoverflow.com/users/18300/alex-s	1224800471
Does Python have a ternary conditional operator?	3142862	['python', 'operators', 'conditional-operator']	Devoted	https://stackoverflow.com/users/51518/devoted	1230366738
What does if name == "main": do?	5042727	['python', 'namespaces', 'program-entry-point', 'python-module', 'idi…	Devoted	https://stackoverflow.com/users/51518/devoted	1231301460
How do I check whether a file exists without exceptions?	6109497	['python', 'file', 'file-exists']	spence91	https://stackoverflow.com/users/15616/spence91	1221656100
How do I merge two dictionaries in a single expression in Python?	3686576	['python', 'dictionary', 'merge']	Carl Meyer	https://stackoverflow.com/users/3207/carl-meyer	1220341470
What are metaclasses in Python?	1266074	['python', 'oop', 'metaclass', 'python-class', 'python-datamodel']	Bite code	https://stackoverflow.com/users/9951/bite-code	1221804646

Real rows from run Ur3rmcoyjEXNhfE4E on build 1.0.28 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

⚙️ Sample inputs

This is the Store example input — the same input Apify's automated check runs — so it is proven to return rows on the current build. Paste it into the input form, or send it through the API, CLI or a schedule:

{
  "query": "python web scraping",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxResults": 50
}

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
query (required)	string	"python web scraping"	Search terms matched in Stack Overflow question titles. Required — with no query the run returns 0 rows and charges nothing.
tag	string	"python"	Filter by tag (e.g., python, javascript)
sort	string (relevance, votes, creation, activity)	"relevance"	Sort by: relevance, votes, creation, activity
maxResults	integer	25	Maximum number of questions to return

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run Ur3rmcoyjEXNhfE4E (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "questionId": 231767,
  "title": "What does the "yield" keyword do in Python?",
  "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/what-does-the-yield-keyword-do-in-python",
  "score": 13135,
  "viewCount": 3499695,
  "answerCount": 51,
  "isAnswered": true,
  "acceptedAnswerId": 231855,
  "tags": [
    "python",
    "iterator",
    "generator",
    "yield"
  ],
  "authorName": "Alex. S.",
  "authorReputation": 148444,
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/18300/alex-s",
  "creationDate": 1224800471,
  "lastActivityDate": 1777574627,
  "bountyAmount": null,
  "body": "<p>What functionality does the <a href=\"https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#yield\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>yield</code></a> keyword in Python provide?</p>\n<p>For example, I'm trying to understand this code<sup><strong>1</strong></sup>:</p>\n<pre><code>def _get_child_candidates(self, distance, min_dist, max_dist):\n    if self._leftchild and distance - max_dist &lt; self._median:\n        yield self._leftchild\n    if self._rightchild and distance + max_dist &gt;= self._median:\n        yield self._rightchild  \n</code></pre>\n<p>And this is the caller:</p>\n<pre><code>result, candidates = [], [self]\nwhile candidates:\n    node = candidates.pop()\n    distance = node._get_dist(obj)\n    if distance &lt;= max_dist and distance &gt;= min_dist:\n        result.extend(node._values)\n    candidates.extend(node._get_child_candidates(distance, min_dist, max_dist))\nreturn result\n</code></pre>\n<p>What happens when the method <code>_get_child_candidates</code> is called?\nIs a list returned? A single element? Is it called again? When will subsequent calls stop?</p>\n\n<hr />\n<sub>\n1. This piece of code was written by Jochen Schulz (jrschulz), who made a great Python library for metric spaces. This is the link to the complete source: <a href=\"https://well-adjusted.de/~jrspieker/mspace/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Module mspace</a>.</sub> \n"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$5e-05	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Question record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.02	Single result in the default dataset.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.02 = $2.00 plus the start fee.

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📊 What you get

Clean JSON output (16 fields):

• questionId — Question Id
• title — Title
• url — Url
• score — Score
• viewCount — View Count
• answerCount — Answer Count
• isAnswered — Is Answered
• acceptedAnswerId — Accepted Answer Id

Pricing: $0.020 per question (Pay-Per-Event) — about 50 questions per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it.

Sample agent prompt:

Run StackOverflow Scraper on my input and return the structured results.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

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