🔮 Metaculus Questions Scraper

🚀 Export Metaculus forecasting questions in seconds, including community predictions, prediction counts, categories, and resolution dates, straight from the public api2 endpoint.

The Metaculus Questions Scraper turns the Metaculus public api2/questions/ endpoint into a clean dataset. It walks the cursor-paginated feed, filters by status and free-text search, and emits one row per question with the community median prediction, category, and timing.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🔮 Forecasters	Calibration & track records
📊 Researchers	Wisdom-of-crowds datasets
🏢 Hedge funds	Tail-risk signal monitoring
🤖 ML researchers	Forecast aggregation training
📰 Journalists	Real-world probability quotes
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror Metaculus locally

📋 What the Metaculus Questions Scraper does

• Calls https://www.metaculus.com/api2/questions/ with status, search, and ordering filters.
• Walks pagination until maxItems is reached.
• Extracts community median prediction, prediction count, categories, close & resolve times.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: Metaculus is the largest serious forecasting community on the internet. Their community predictions are battle-tested calibration sources.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: category, close_time, community_prediction, id, num_predictions, results, scrapedAt, status, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: The Metaculus api2 endpoint is public. No key required.

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a status / search.
3. Click Start.

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