Bing People Also Ask Scraper
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from $1.99 / 1,000 search results
Bing People Also Ask Scraper
Extracts People Also Ask questions, answers, and source information from Bing search results.
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from $1.99 / 1,000 search results
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Extracts question-and-answer entries from Bing's People Also Ask panels. Each emitted record must contain an answer and a publisher source link with a title. Copilot summaries, ordinary search results, and related-search suggestions are not treated as PAA records. If Bing does not render a PAA panel for a query, the Actor completes with an empty dataset.
Input
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
query | Required Bing search query. |
maxItems | Maximum records to emit (1–200). |
expandNested | Expand PAA follow-up questions before extraction. |
market | Bing market code such as en-US. |
headless | Run Chromium without a visible window. |
proxyConfiguration | Optional Apify proxy settings. |
Output
Records include the question and answer, answer HTML, publisher title and URL, source domain, position, expansion depth, related questions, result type, query and URL, market, scrape timestamp, and search metadata. The declared dataset schema describes 17 top-level properties, including the optional parentQuestion, and five nested metadata properties.
The dataset schema is linked from .actor/actor.json, so Apify validates the full record shape when building or running the Actor.
Chrome observation (not Actor output)
On the public Bing search page for what is photosynthesis, Chrome rendered about 120,000 results and a People also ask block with four questions. Expanding How does photosynthesis work? showed its answer in the node whose ID ends in -content, paired with a question button whose ID ends in -trigger (the observed pair was ac99ce5dd8b2e-trigger and ac99ce5dd8b2e-content). The answer included a source link titled Photosynthesis - Wikipedia; its Bing /ck/a tracking URL resolved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis.
The extractor now reads only trigger buttons inside .df_listaa, pairs each with the matching content ID, and emits it only when the paired content has answer text and an external source title and URL. Copilot content, ordinary result cards, and related-search modules are outside that selector. The observed four questions were top-level; depth and parentQuestion are populated for a nested question only when its button is actually contained in a paired ancestor content node. These are Chrome page observations; no Actor, proxy, or cloud output is claimed.
