# Quora Search Scraper (`scrapio/quora-search-scraper`) Actor

🔎 Quora Search Scraper extracts search results, questions & insights from Quora fast. 🚀 Perfect for market research, SEO/topic tracking, and lead generation—turning Quora data into actionable intelligence. ⚡ Easy, efficient, and workflow-friendly.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapio/quora-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapio](https://apify.com/scrapio) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, SEO tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 🔍 Quora Search Scraper

Search **Quora** by keyword or paste direct links and get clean, structured data —
**questions ❓, answers 💬, profiles 👤, topics 🏷️ and spaces 🪐** — complete with
engagement metrics (upvotes, comments, shares, followers, views). **No Quora login
required.**

Quora sits behind Cloudflare, so this Actor renders pages with a real stealth
browser and reads Quora's own embedded GraphQL data — giving you accurate counts
and full answer text, not truncated previews.

### ⭐ Why Choose Us?

- 🛡️ **Smart proxy ladder** — starts on a direct connection, automatically climbs to a **datacenter** proxy and then sticks on a **residential** proxy only when Quora pushes back. You don't lift a finger.
- 💬 **Full answer bodies** — complete text, author, credentials, age and engagement counts.
- 🗂️ **Per-section output** — every content type gets its own clean table view.
- 💾 **Live results** — rows stream to the dataset as they're collected; a stopped run still keeps everything gathered so far.
- 🔁 **Robust retries** — exponential backoff and proxy escalation on blocks.

### 🚀 Key Features

| Feature | Details |
|--------|---------|
| 🔎 Keyword search | Discovers Quora question URLs via DuckDuckGo (Bing fallback) |
| 🔗 Direct URLs | Questions, profiles, topics, spaces — bulk input supported |
| 💬 Answers | Text, author, credentials, upvotes, comments, shares, age, AI-answer flag |
| ❓ Questions | Title, answer count, follower count, topics |
| 👤 Profiles | Name, bio, credentials, followers, following, answers, views |
| 🏷️ Topics & 🪐 Spaces | Name, description, followers, posts/questions, contributors |

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQueries` | array | Keywords to search on Quora |
| `directUrls` | array | Direct Quora URLs (bulk supported) |
| `maxResults` | integer | **Total** number of result rows to collect across all keywords and URLs (1–50000) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify proxy settings (residential recommended) |

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["what is python used for"],
  "directUrls": [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-Python-primarily-used-for",
    "https://www.quora.com/topic/Python-programming-language-1",
    "https://www.quora.com/profile/Guido-van-Rossum-1"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
````

### 📤 Output

Each row carries a `content_type` field (`question`, `answer`, `profile`, `topic`, `space`).
Switch the **view dropdown** in the Output tab to see each section separately.

```json
{
  "content_type": "answer",
  "title": "What is Python primarily used for?",
  "answer_text": "Python is a programming language…",
  "author_name": "Bill Poucher",
  "author_url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Poucher",
  "author_credentials": "ICPC Exec Director, Baylor CS Prof",
  "upvotes": 15,
  "comments_count": 1,
  "shares_count": 0,
  "answer_timestamp": "9y",
  "is_ai_answer": false,
  "question_url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-Python-primarily-used-for",
  "source_query": "what is python used for",
  "scrape_timestamp": "2026-06-10T07:40:52+00:00"
}
```

### 🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at <https://console.apify.com> → **Actors**.
2. Open **Quora Search Scraper**.
3. Enter `searchQueries` and/or `directUrls`, set `maxResults`, pick a proxy.
4. Click **Start**.
5. Watch the engaging real-time logs.
6. Open the **Output** tab and switch views to browse each section.
7. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

### 🤖 Use via API

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["what is python used for"],"maxResults":10,"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}}'
```

### 🎯 Best Use Cases

- Market & audience research, content ideation, lead and expert discovery, competitive Q\&A monitoring, and training-data collection.

### 💲 Pricing

This Actor uses the **pay-per-event** model — you are billed per row returned
(event `row_result`). You only pay for data you actually receive.

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need a Quora account?** No — everything is public data.

**Why is residential proxy recommended?** Quora's Cloudflare protection is strict; residential IPs clear it most reliably. The Actor will escalate to residential automatically if needed.

**I got 0 results.** Enable the Apify **RESIDENTIAL** proxy in the input and retry — datacenter IPs are sometimes fully blocked.

### ⚖️ Cautions / Legal

Data is collected only from **publicly available** Quora pages. You are responsible
for compliance with Quora's ToS and applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).

### 📨 Support

Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab with your run ID and input.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search on Quora. Each keyword discovers relevant Quora question URLs (via DuckDuckGo) and scrapes them. No Quora login needed. ✨ Example: "what is python used for".

## `directUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste any Quora URLs directly — questions ❓, profiles 👤, topics 🏷️ or spaces 🪐. Supports bulk input (one per line).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Total number of result rows to collect — across all keywords and URLs combined. Want 60, 200 or 500 rows? Set exactly that. ✅

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy configuration used as the mid-tier (datacenter) network. Residential is applied automatically as the final fallback.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "python programming"
  ],
  "directUrls": [],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "python programming"
    ],
    "directUrls": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapio/quora-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["python programming"],
    "directUrls": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapio/quora-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "python programming"
  ],
  "directUrls": [],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call scrapio/quora-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapio/quora-search-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Quora Search Scraper",
        "description": "🔎 Quora Search Scraper extracts search results, questions & insights from Quora fast. 🚀 Perfect for market research, SEO/topic tracking, and lead generation—turning Quora data into actionable intelligence. ⚡ Easy, efficient, and workflow-friendly.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "Td3Edk9Lek2rjxhPW"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/scrapio~quora-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapio-quora-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapio~quora-search-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapio-quora-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapio~quora-search-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-scrapio-quora-search-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "searchQueries": {
                        "title": "🔎 Search Keywords",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Keywords to search on Quora. Each keyword discovers relevant Quora question URLs (via DuckDuckGo) and scrapes them. No Quora login needed. ✨ Example: \"what is python used for\".",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "directUrls": {
                        "title": "🔗 Direct Quora URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Paste any Quora URLs directly — questions ❓, profiles 👤, topics 🏷️ or spaces 🪐. Supports bulk input (one per line).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "🎯 Maximum Results",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Total number of result rows to collect — across all keywords and URLs combined. Want 60, 200 or 500 rows? Set exactly that. ✅",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "🛡️ Proxy",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Optional Apify Proxy configuration used as the mid-tier (datacenter) network. Residential is applied automatically as the final fallback.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```