# Stack Exchange Keyword Search

**Use case:** 

Search any Stack Exchange site by keyword and export question title, body, score, views, answer count, tags and asker reputation. No API key needed.

## Input

```json
{
  "scrapeMode": "overview",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "searchQuery": "memory leak",
  "tagged": "python",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "overviewUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python",
  "questionId": "11227809",
  "fetchAnswers": true,
  "answerSort": "votes",
  "answerPagesize": 100,
  "pagesize": 50,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxPages": 1
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "🔗 Question URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "questionTitle": {
    "label": "📝 Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "score": {
    "label": "🔝 Score",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "view_count": {
    "label": "👁️ Views",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "answer_count": {
    "label": "💬 Answer Count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "is_answered": {
    "label": "✅ Is Answered",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "tags": {
    "label": "🏷️ Tags",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "owner_display_name": {
    "label": "👤 Author",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "owner_reputation": {
    "label": "⭐ Author Reputation",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "answer_count_fetched": {
    "label": "📥 Answers Fetched",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "creation_date_iso": {
    "label": "📅 Created",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Stack Exchange Scraper — Questions, Answers & Search API](https://apify.com/sian.agency/stack-exchange-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/sian.agency/stack-exchange-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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