Quora Scraper | Answers, Profiles & Keyword Search

🚀 Quora Scraper: Answers, Profiles, Topics and Keyword Search

The Quora Scraper exports Quora answers as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Give it question, profile or topic URLs, or just keywords, and get the full answer text with upvotes, views, shares, dates, author details and optional comments. No Quora account, login or cookies needed. It works as a practical Quora API for market research, audience insight, content analysis and Q&A datasets.

🎯 Use Cases

• Quora answers export: pull every answer on a question thread, including answers merged in from duplicate questions, into a spreadsheet.
• Keyword research on Quora: search a topic such as "best CRM for small business" and collect what real people say about it.
• Market and audience research: read the language customers use, which products they recommend and what they complain about.
• Expert and influencer discovery: export a writer's followers, answer views, Top Writer years and credentials.
• Q&A datasets: build question and answer collections, with an isAiAnswer flag so you can separate Quora's machine answers from human ones.

✨ Features

• Full answer threads: walks a question to its last answer, hundreds per question, not only the first page.
• Keyword search without an account: finds matching question threads for each keyword, then saves their answers.
• Engagement metrics: upvotes, views, shares, comment counts, creation and update dates for every answer.
• Author details: name, profile URL, avatar, credential line, plus verified, anonymous, business and AI-account flags.
• Question topics: the topic tags of the thread you asked for, on each of its answers.
• Profiles: followers, following, answer, question and post counts, all-time and last-month answer views, Top Writer years, expertise topics and credentials, followed by the writer's public answers.
• Topics: the public answer feed of any topic page.
• Comments (optional): comments with their replies under each answer, with authors, dates and upvotes.
• Clean text and links: answer bodies as plain text, with outbound links collected separately.
• No duplicates, fair billing: an answer found through two inputs is saved and billed once, and a run stops at your maximum charge with every saved row paid for.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Enter your input: paste Quora URLs, type keywords, or both.
2. Set the limits: maxItems caps the rows in the run, and maxAnswersPerQuestion keeps one long thread from using them all.
3. Run the scraper: download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Quora URLs (startUrls)	Question, profile or topic URLs, for example https://www.quora.com/What-is-web-scraping, https://www.quora.com/profile/Adam-DAngelo, https://www.quora.com/topic/Web-Scraping.
Search keywords (searchQueries)	Finds question threads by keyword, then saves their answers. Off unless you fill it in.
Max items (maxItems)	Maximum rows (answers and profiles) in the run. Default 50.
Max answers per question (maxAnswersPerQuestion)	Stops each question after this many answers. Empty means every answer.
Include comments (includeComments)	Also fetches comments with replies under each answer. Billed per comment.
Proxy configuration	The default works, leave it as it is.

An empty input runs a small sample on two example questions.

{
    "searchQueries": ["best crm for small business"],
    "startUrls": ["https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-hate-Java"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxAnswersPerQuestion": 10,
    "includeComments": false
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price	What you get
answer	$0.004	One answer row with full text, metrics and author
profile	$0.004	One profile row with stats and credentials
comment	$0.001	One comment with its replies, when includeComments is on
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	One per run per GB of memory

Examples:

• A question with 100 answers costs about $0.40.
• 1,000 answers cost about $4.
• 50 answers with 30 comments cost about $0.23.

📊 Sample Output Data

{
    "type": "answer",
    "answerId": "1477743918141554",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-vegetarian-or-vegan-protein-sources/answer/Menthol-12",
    "question": {
        "questionId": "156195027",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-vegetarian-or-vegan-protein-sources",
        "title": "What are some good vegetarian or vegan protein sources?",
        "answerCount": 1,
        "topics": ["Protein (nutrition)", "Vegetarian Food", "Veganism"]
    },
    "originalQuestion": null,
    "text": "Vegetarians can include some animal-based foods in their diet, such as dairy products, eggs, and honey...",
    "links": [],
    "createdAt": "2026-09-10T12:25:48.015Z",
    "updatedAt": null,
    "upvotes": 1,
    "views": 62,
    "shares": 0,
    "commentCount": 0,
    "isAiAnswer": false,
    "isPaywalled": false,
    "author": {
        "uid": "3209763076",
        "name": "Menthol",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Menthol-12",
        "imageUrl": "https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-3209763076-200-yoabqmkefoovrtmkwficypkfwzpjjojf.jpeg",
        "isVerified": false,
        "isAnonymous": false,
        "isAiAccount": false,
        "isBusiness": false
    },
    "authorCredential": null,
    "language": "en",
    "source": "https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-vegetarian-or-vegan-protein-sources",
    "searchQuery": "vegan protein sources",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-04T17:12:05.756Z"
}

A profile row has type: "profile" with uid, name, credential, bio, followers, following, answers, questions, posts, totalAnswerViews, lastMonthContentViews, topWriterYears, workCredentials, schoolCredentials, locationCredentials and expertiseTopics.

originalQuestion is set when an answer was written on a question that Quora later merged. searchQuery appears only on rows found by keyword, and comments only when comments are on.

🔁 Schedule and Integrate

To follow what people say about a brand or topic, run the same keywords or questions weekly. Use Apify Schedules for that, and send results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook through Apify's integrations.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

The Quora Scraper works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). A minimal input for an agent:

{ "searchQueries": ["best crm for small business"], "maxItems": 20, "maxAnswersPerQuestion": 3 }

❓ FAQ

Does Quora have an official API? Quora has no public API for reading questions and answers. This actor is the practical alternative: no key, no approval and no login, and the output includes views, credentials and the AI-answer flag.

Do I need a Quora account or cookies? No. Everything comes from what Quora shows logged-out visitors.

How does keyword search work on Quora without a login? Quora's own search page needs an account, so the actor finds matching question threads on the open web and then reads their answers. Expect up to about 40 questions per keyword, in web relevance order, not the order Quora's search would show. Time filters and Quora's own search sort are not available.

How many answers can I get? Question threads are returned in full. Public profile lists stop after roughly 40 recent answers and topic feeds after about 30, because that is what Quora shows without an account.

Can it scrape Quora Spaces and posts? Not yet. It returns answers, profiles and comments. Space URLs are skipped with a warning.

Why is a field empty? Most gaps are real: updatedAt is empty when an answer was never edited, links when it has no outbound links, originalQuestion when it was not merged, and authorCredential when the writer set none.

What does isAiAnswer mean? Answers marked true were generated by Quora's assistant, not written by a person.

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