# Stack Overflow Full Q&A Export

**Use case:** 

Give a question id or URL and get the whole thread: question body, score, views, tags and every answer with its score, accepted flag and author.

## Input

```json
{
  "scrapeMode": "detail",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "searchQuery": "branch prediction",
  "tagged": "python",
  "sort": "",
  "overviewUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python",
  "questionId": "11227809",
  "fetchAnswers": true,
  "answerSort": "votes",
  "answerPagesize": 100,
  "pagesize": 50,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxPages": 3
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "id": {
    "label": "🆔 Question ID",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "🔗 Question URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "source": {
    "label": "🧭 Source",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "site": {
    "label": "🌐 Site",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "questionTitle": {
    "label": "📝 Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "body": {
    "label": "📄 Body (HTML)",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "content_license": {
    "label": "⚖️ License",
    "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"
  },
  "accepted_answer_id": {
    "label": "🏅 Accepted Answer ID",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "tags": {
    "label": "🏷️ Tags",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "tag_count": {
    "label": "🔢 Tag Count",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "owner_user_id": {
    "label": "🆔 Author ID",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "owner_display_name": {
    "label": "👤 Author",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "owner_reputation": {
    "label": "⭐ Author Reputation",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "owner_user_type": {
    "label": "🧑 Author Type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "owner_link": {
    "label": "🔗 Author URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "owner_profile_image": {
    "label": "🖼️ Author Avatar",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "owner_accept_rate": {
    "label": "📊 Author Accept Rate",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "creation_date": {
    "label": "🕒 Created (epoch)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "creation_date_iso": {
    "label": "📅 Created",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "last_activity_date": {
    "label": "⏱️ Last Activity (epoch)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "last_edit_date": {
    "label": "✏️ Last Edit (epoch)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "is_closed": {
    "label": "🔒 Is Closed",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "protected": {
    "label": "🛡️ Protected",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "answers": {
    "label": "💬 Answers",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "answer_count_fetched": {
    "label": "📥 Answers Fetched",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "coverage": {
    "label": "📊 Field Coverage",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "processedAt": {
    "label": "🕒 Processed At",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "scrapingDate": {
    "label": "📅 Scraping Date",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "✅ Processing Status",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

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