💬 Stack Overflow Scraper

🚀 Export Stack Overflow questions, scores, tags, and author data in seconds. No login required.

The Stack Overflow Scraper lets you extract questions from Stack Overflow using the official Stack Exchange public API v2.3. Search by keyword, filter by tags, sort by votes or recency, and download structured data instantly - no API key required for standard usage.

Stack Overflow hosts over 58 million questions spanning virtually every programming topic. This scraper gives you programmatic access to that knowledge base: question scores, answer counts, view counts, accepted answers, author reputation, tags, and more - all in clean JSON ready for CSV, Excel, or direct integration.

Coverage: All public Stack Overflow questions accessible via the Stack Exchange API. Covers millions of questions across thousands of tags, from JavaScript and Python to DevOps and machine learning. Every record includes 16 structured fields.

Who uses it	Why
Developers	Track trends in frameworks and languages
Researchers	Study Q&A dynamics, tag co-occurrence, community patterns
Data scientists	Build NLP datasets from real technical questions
Tech recruiters	Identify in-demand skills by tag volume and score
Educators	Find top-voted questions for curriculum building
Product managers	Benchmark competitor pain points and developer friction

📋 What the Stack Overflow Scraper does

• Search questions by keyword (title match) across all of Stack Overflow
• Filter questions by one or more tags (e.g. javascript, python,pandas)
• Browse top-voted, most active, or newest questions without a search query
• Sort results by votes, activity, creation date, or relevance
• Capture full metadata: score, answer count, view count, accepted answer ID, bounty amount
• Extract author details: display name and reputation score
• Paginate automatically to hit your exact maxItems target

💡 Why it matters: Stack Overflow is the world's largest developer Q&A platform. Bulk access to its question data unlocks trend analysis, skill mapping, content research, and NLP dataset construction - none of which are possible through the website UI alone.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: acceptedAnswerId, answerCount, author, authorReputation, bountyAmount, createdAt, isAnswered, lastActivityAt, questionId, results, score, scrapedAt, tags, title, url, viewCount. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify
2. Open the Stack Overflow Scraper actor page
3. Enter a searchQuery (e.g. react hooks) or a tag list (e.g. python,numpy)
4. Set maxItems and optional sortBy
5. Click Run - results appear in the dataset within seconds
6. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

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This actor uses the Stack Exchange public API and complies with its terms of service. Stack Overflow data is provided under CC BY-SA 4.0. ParseForge is not affiliated with Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange.

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