You can access the Stack Overflow Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("pear_fight/stackoverflow-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Stack Overflow Scraper - Extract Q&A Data API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Stack Overflow Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Stack Overflow Scraper API in JavaScript

Stack Overflow Scraper API through CLI

Stack Overflow Scraper OpenAPI definition

Stack Overflow Scraper API

Stack Overflow

jupri/stackexchange

cat

Stack Overflow Questions Scraper

nexgendata/stackoverflow-questions

Scrape questions, answers, votes, and tags from Stack Overflow. Monitor developer trends, find solutions, and analyze community knowledge.

Stephan Corbeil

Stack Overflow Scraper

cloud9_ai/stackoverflow-scraper

Scrape Stack Overflow questions, answers, and tags via Stack Exchange API. Search by keyword or tag, get accepted answers, vote counts, and view statistics.

cloud9

Stack Overflow Scraper API - Search Questions, Answers & Trends

fresh_cliff/stackoverflow-api-scraper

Extract Stack Overflow questions, answers, tags, votes, users, and comments via the Stack Exchange API. Fast JSON export, pagination, filters, date ranges, and keyword search. Ideal for analytics, AI training, and monitoring trends in developer Q&A data.

Brennan Crawford

Stack Overflow Scraper - Extract Questions and Answers

intelligent_yaffle/stackoverflow-scraper

Scrape Stack Overflow questions, answers, tags, and user profiles. Extract vote counts, accepted answers, code snippets, and discussion threads. Perfect for developer tools research, programming trend analysis, and technical content aggregation.

Fatih Dağüstü

Stack Overflow Search Scraper

jeremy_frost/stack-overflow-search-scraper

Specify a 🔍search expression for retrieving Stack Overflow search results.

Jeremy Frost

Stackoverflow Email Scraper - Advanced, Fast & Cheapest

contacts-api/stackoverflow-email-scraper-fast-advanced-and-cheapest

💻 Stack Overflow Email Scraper helps you extract developer and company emails from Stack Overflow profiles 🔍 Ideal for tech hiring, outreach, and research 📧

Lead Heaven

Stack Overflow Phone Number Scraper – Cheapest 💻📊📞

contactminerlabs/stack-overflow-phone-number-scraper---cheapest

🔍 Scrape Mass / Bulk StackOverflow Phone Numbers Enter your search parameters to collect phone numbers from Stack Overflow users, questions, answers, and profiles, along with developer name, URL, and more 📞💻 Perfect for lead generation, tech recruitment, B2B outreach and contact enrichment 📊🚀

ContactMinerLabs

5.0

Stack Overflow & StackExchange Search

ryanclinton/stackexchange-search

Search Stack Overflow and 170+ StackExchange sites. Filter by tags, sort by votes, activity, or date. Returns questions with scores, answer counts, view counts, tags, owner info. Free API, 300 requests/day.

ryan clinton

StackOverflow Scraper

muscular_quadruplet/stackoverflow-scraper

Scrape Stack Overflow questions, answers, tags. Extract developer Q&A, code snippets, vote counts. Build knowledge bases, analyze programming trends, find solutions. No login required.