Stack Overflow Scraper – Stack Exchange Q&A Data

Scrape Stack Overflow and any Stack Exchange site (Super User, Server Fault, Ask Ubuntu, Math, Unix…) for questions, scores, views, tags, answers and owners — by search, by tag, or by question id. As JSON, CSV or Excel. No key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — ~$0.0005 per item ($0.50 / 1,000 questions). No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits, so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Question title, URL, score, view count, answer count, answered flag
• Tags array + Stack Exchange site
• Owner display name and reputation
• Question body (HTML stripped to clean text, capped at 8,000 chars)
• Creation date as ISO-8601
• Optional answers (score, accepted flag, body, owner) per question

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set the input (see example below) — pick a mode, query/tags, and a site.
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "python async",
  "tags": "python",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "sort": "votes",
  "includeAnswers": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Other modes:

{ "mode": "questions", "tags": "docker, kubernetes", "site": "serverfault", "maxItems": 50 }

{ "mode": "ids", "questionIds": ["11227809", "231767"], "includeAnswers": true }

📦 Output example

{
  "question_id": 36342899,
  "title": "asyncio.gather vs asyncio.wait (vs asyncio.TaskGroup)",
  "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36342899/...",
  "score": 345,
  "view_count": 403844,
  "answer_count": 5,
  "is_answered": true,
  "tags": ["python", "asynchronous", "async-await", "python-asyncio"],
  "owner_name": "Claude",
  "owner_reputation": 10250,
  "created_iso": "2017-02-14T16:21:47+00:00",
  "body_text": "asyncio.gather and asyncio.wait both...",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "answers": [],
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-29T12:00:00+00:00"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Build developer Q&A / knowledge datasets for RAG and LLM fine-tuning
• Monitor trending tags, errors and libraries on Stack Overflow
• Track answered vs unanswered questions for a tag or product
• Research developer pain points, competitor mentions and tooling

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost):

Questions	Approx cost
100	~$0.05
1,000	~$0.50
10,000	~$5

The free Stack Exchange API allows roughly 300 requests/day per IP; the actor handles throttling (HTTP 429 + the API backoff field) gracefully.

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Any Stack Exchange site	✅	SO only
Search, by tag, by id	✅	partial
Answers + owner reputation	✅	rare
No key / no proxy	✅	sometimes
Clean text + ISO dates	✅	raw HTML

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• GitHub Scraper — repos, issues, users
• Hacker News Scraper — HN stories & comments
• Dev.to Scraper — developer articles
• npm Package Scraper — package metadata

❓ FAQ

Do I need an API key? No — the free Stack Exchange API tier needs no key for low volume. Which sites work? stackoverflow, superuser, serverfault, askubuntu, math, unix, and any other Stack Exchange site (set site). Can I get answers too? Yes — set includeAnswers: true (uses extra quota).

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data is retrieved via the public Stack Exchange API v2.3. Content is licensed under CC BY-SA by Stack Exchange; respect their attribution requirements when republishing.

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