Stack Exchange — Questions Search (Stack Overflow & more)

Search questions across Stack Overflow and any Stack Exchange site — as clean JSON. Pass keywords and/or tags and get back a tidy row per question: title, score, views, answers, tags, owner, dates and link. Powered by the official Stack Exchange API — no API key, no anti-bot.

The easy way to mine developer Q&A for research, monitoring and AI datasets.

Who uses this

• 🧑‍💻 Developers & DevRel — track questions about your library, framework or product.
• 🤖 AI / LLM & RAG pipelines — build Q&A datasets for training and retrieval.
• 📊 Researchers & analysts — study tech trends, tags and community activity.
• 🛠️ Support & docs teams — surface common problems users hit.
• 📈 Product teams — monitor pain points and feature requests in the wild.

What you get — one clean row per question

Field	Description
title	Question title
score	Net votes
viewCount	Views
answerCount	Number of answers
isAnswered + hasAcceptedAnswer	Answer status
tags	Question tags
owner + ownerReputation	Asker
createdAt + lastActivityAt	Dates
link	Link to the question
site, query, scrapedAt	Provenance

Example

Input

{ "queries": ["pandas dataframe merge"], "tags": ["python", "pandas"], "site": "stackoverflow", "sort": "votes", "maxResultsPerQuery": 50 }

Output (one item)

{
  "questionId": 53645882,
  "title": "How to merge two pandas DataFrames on multiple columns",
  "score": 214, "viewCount": 480000,
  "answerCount": 6, "hasAcceptedAnswer": true,
  "tags": ["python", "pandas", "dataframe", "merge"],
  "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53645882"
}

Why this actor

• ✅ Official source — the Stack Exchange API, always current.
• 🌐 Any Stack Exchange site — Stack Overflow, Super User, Ask Ubuntu and more.
• 🏷️ Search by keyword and tag — combine both for precision.
• 🔽 Sort options — by votes, activity, creation or relevance.
• ⚡ Fast & affordable — pay only per question returned. No key, no anti-bot.

Input options

• queries — keyword searches.
• tags — filter by tags.
• site — Stack Exchange site (default stackoverflow).
• sort — votes, activity, creation or relevance.
• maxResultsPerQuery — cap questions per query.

FAQ

Only Stack Overflow? No — set site to any Stack Exchange site (e.g. superuser, askubuntu, serverfault).

Can I filter by tag? Yes — pass tags to narrow results.

Do I get answers too? You get answer counts and status; this actor focuses on questions.

How fresh is the data? Live from the Stack Exchange API on every run.

Can I export to CSV/Excel/Google Sheets? Yes — the dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel and HTML, or pull it via the API.

What does it cost? Pay-per-question — you're only charged for questions actually returned.

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Tip: monitor your product's tag weekly and diff new questionIds to catch fresh user problems.