Stack Exchange Intel: Dev Leads, Tags & Question Monitor

Turn Stack Overflow and the wider Stack Exchange network into structured, B2B-ready data. Monitor questions by tag or keyword, build developer lead lists from a technology's proven top answerers, or size technology adoption by tag count. Built on the official public Stack Exchange API: no proxy, no authentication, no login.

Who uses this

• Developer-relations and recruiting teams sourcing proven experts in a specific technology (top answerers of a tag = high-intent technical leads, with public location and website).
• Support and community teams watching their product's tag for new questions (an early signal of friction, bugs, and documentation gaps).
• Developer-tool and SaaS teams doing competitive intel: who asks about a rival's stack, how active a technology's community is.
• Market researchers and investors sizing technology adoption by question volume and growth.

Modes

1. Monitor questions (tag / keyword)

Search a site for questions matching a tag set (python;fastapi), a free-text keyword (stripe webhook), or both. Each result carries the title, tags, score, answer count, view count, answered state, creation date, link, and the asker as a compact lead pointer (name, id, reputation, profile). Sort by creation for monitoring, activity, or votes. In delta mode only questions new since the previous run are emitted, so a schedule turns this into a new-question alert feed.

2. Developer leads (experts / top users)

Set a tag to list that technology's top answerers: proven experts ranked by answer score, then enriched to full profiles with location, website, reputation, and badge counts. These are the highest-intent technical leads, targeted by stack. Leave the tag blank to rank a site's users by reputation or account age instead.

3. Tags (technology market sizing)

Rank a site's tags by popularity (question count, a direct proxy for adoption), recent activity, or name. Optionally filter by a name substring. Use it to size a technology, spot rising ecosystems, or build a tag universe for the other modes.

Delta / monitor mode

Every mode supports deltaMode. State is kept per account between runs and emits only what is new:

• Questions: only question ids not seen before.
• Users: only user ids not seen before.
• Tags: only tag names not seen before.

This makes the actor a recurring monitor rather than a one-shot scrape, the recurring-usage pattern you want behind a schedule and a webhook.

Example input

{
  "mode": "questions",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tagged": "stripe",
  "questionsSort": "creation",
  "deltaMode": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

{
  "mode": "users",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tag": "swift",
  "period": "all_time",
  "maxItems": 50
}

{
  "mode": "tags",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tagsSort": "popular",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output fields

• Questions: questionId, title, tags, score, answerCount, viewCount, isAnswered, creationDate, lastActivityDate, link, ownerName, ownerId, ownerReputation, ownerLink, site.
• Users: userId, accountId, displayName, location, websiteUrl, reputation, goldBadges / silverBadges / bronzeBadges, createdAt, lastAccessAt, profileUrl, site, plus answerScore / answerPostCount when sourced from a tag's top answerers.
• Tags: name, count, hasSynonyms, isModeratorOnly, isRequired, site, tagUrl.

Part of the B2B data suite

Combine with our other no-proxy intel actors for a full founder / VC / sales / dev dataset:

• GitHub Intel: repositories, developer leads, stargazers / contributors.
• npm Registry Intel: packages, releases, maintainer leads.
• PyPI Intel: Python packages, dependencies, maintainer leads.
• Hacker News Intel: Who is Hiring jobs, Show HN launches, keyword monitor.
• Y Combinator Companies Scraper: startups by batch and industry.
• IndieHackers Product Scraper: products, revenue, founders.
• SEC EDGAR Intel: filings, XBRL financials, full-text search.

Notes

• Data comes from the official public Stack Exchange API (api.stackexchange.com). No login is required. An optional free app key (from stackapps.com) lifts the daily request quota from 300 to 10000; it is not authentication and all data stays public.
• Stack Exchange content is licensed CC BY-SA; each row carries the canonical link / profileUrl for attribution. Use contact and profile data in line with applicable anti-spam and data-protection rules.