Quora Scraper — Questions, Answers, Topics & Upvotes 📕

🎉 Turn any Quora question into a clean dataset — the question, its engagement, its topics, and the top answers, all in one run.

Built for researchers, marketers and content teams who need real Q&A data at scale, without copy-paste.

📋 Overview

Quora is where millions ask and answer the questions your audience is searching for — and this scraper turns that into structured data you can actually use. Point it at a question, a topic, or a search, and get back clean records: the question text, how many answers and followers it has, the topics it sits under, and the top answers with their authors, credentials, upvotes and views.

Why teams choose this scraper:

• ✅ Real fields, ready to use: question text, answer count, follower count, topics, and ranked top answers — no HTML to clean.
• ⚡ One seed, many questions: every question page also surfaces its related-question rail, so a handful of seeds expands into dozens of questions.
• 🎯 Engagement scoring built in: a 0–100 reach score and top-answer upvote totals so you can sort by what matters.
• 💰 Pay only for results: transparent pay-per-result pricing with a free trial — no subscriptions.
• 💎 Two depths: fast Overview for sizing a topic cheaply, or full Detail for the complete answer set.
• ✨ No account, no cookies, no setup: paste a link and run.

✨ Features

• 📕 Question intelligence: question text, asker, answer count, follower count, view count.
• 🏆 Top answers: author name, profile link, credential, upvotes, views and full answer text.
• 🏷️ Topic mapping: every topic a question belongs to, plus a dominant-topic field.
• 📊 Engagement score: a single 0–100 metric blending answers, followers and top upvotes.
• 🔎 Related-question discovery: each question page reveals ~20 related questions automatically.
• 🧭 Four ways in: by question URL, by topic, by search URL, or by free-text query.
• 🖼️ Inline media: answer images captured with a thumbnail-first field.
• 📄 Run report: an HTML summary of every run, plus clean JSON/CSV/Excel export.

🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Choose how to find questions

Pick a Search mode — paste Quora question URLs, name a topic, paste a search URL, or type a query.

Step 2: Choose how deep to go

Pick Overview (fast — a question plus its related rail) or Detail (the full answer set per question).

Step 3: Run and export

Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them via the API.

🎯 Use Cases

• Audience & market research — discover the exact questions people ask about your space.
• Content ideation — find high-engagement questions to answer in blogs, videos and FAQs.
• Topic discovery — map the topics and sub-topics around a theme.
• Competitor & brand monitoring — track questions and answers mentioning a product or company.
• SEO & FAQ mining — build FAQ pages and long-tail content from real questions.
• Training-data collection — gather Q&A pairs for fine-tuning and evaluation.

📊 Output Data

Each question returns a structured record:

Field	Description
id	Canonical question id (URL slug)
url	Absolute question URL
question_text	The question, as plain text
asker	Name of the user who asked (when shown)
answer_count	Total answers on the question
follower_count	Users following the question
view_count	Question views (when exposed)
engagement_score	0–100 reach proxy (answers + followers + top upvotes)
topics	All topics the question belongs to
dominant_topic	The primary topic
top_answers	Top answers — author, credential, upvotes, views, text
top_answer_upvotes	Highest upvote count among captured answers
total_top_upvotes	Sum of captured top-answer upvotes
images	Inline answer image URLs
thumbnail	First inline answer image
metadata	Run context (mode, seeds, tier, run id, timestamp)

💡 Tips

• Start in Overview to map a topic cheaply, then switch to Detail on the questions worth the full answer set.
• Question-URL mode is the richest seed — each page also reveals its related questions.
• Use the free trial to validate fields before scaling up.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Quora account or cookies? No — just paste a link and run.

What's the difference between Overview and Detail? Overview returns each question plus its related rail with engagement counts and topics (no per-answer text). Detail fetches each question page for the full set of top answers (author, credential, upvotes, views, text).

Why doesn't free-text search return many results? Quora's public search is limited when logged out. For the richest results, seed with question URLs or topics — each question page also surfaces ~20 related questions.

How is the engagement score calculated? It's a 0–100 proxy that log-scales and blends answer count, follower count and the top answer's upvotes — a quick way to sort questions by reach.

Can I export to CSV/Excel? Yes — results export as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

🔧 Support

Questions or feature requests? Reach SIÁN Agency at apify@sian-agency.online. Love the actor? A 5-star review helps us ship more features.

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