Stack Exchange Scraper 💬

Search and pull questions, answers and tags from Stack Overflow and 170+ Stack Exchange sites — Super User, Server Fault, Ask Ubuntu, Math, and more — straight from the official Stack Exchange API. No API key required.

Whether you're monitoring how developers discuss your product, mining Q&A for research, tracking unanswered questions in your niche, or building a dataset of technical content, this Actor turns the official Stack Exchange API into a clean, structured feed — no key, no scraping of HTML pages.

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Three modes

• Search — free-text query across titles and bodies, with rich filters: tags (must match all), excluded tags, minimum score, accepted-answer-only, answered-only, and date range.
• Questions — browse any site or tag by sort order (votes, activity, creation, hot).
• Tags — pull the tag catalog for a site with usage counts.

What you get per question

Field	Example
title	"How do I use async/await in Python?"
score · view_count · answer_count	142 · 98,300 · 7
is_answered · has_accepted_answer	true / true
tags	["python", "async-await", "asyncio"]
owner	display name + reputation
creation_date · last_activity_date	ISO-8601
link	Link back to the question
body (optional)	Full question body (HTML + plain text)
answers[] (optional)	Top answers with score, accepted flag and body

Examples

Search Stack Overflow for high-scoring Python async questions

{
  "mode": "search",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "query": "async await",
  "tags": ["python"],
  "minScore": 10,
  "sort": "votes"
}

Recent unanswered questions for a tag

{
  "mode": "questions",
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tags": ["rust"],
  "answeredOnly": false,
  "sort": "creation"
}

Pull questions with their top answers

{
  "mode": "search",
  "site": "serverfault",
  "query": "nginx 502",
  "includeAnswers": true,
  "answersPerQuestion": 3
}

Which sites?

Any Stack Exchange site by its API slug: stackoverflow, superuser, serverfault, askubuntu, math, stats, unix, dba, security, devops, datascience, and 160+ more.

Run it on a schedule

Schedule a daily run to track new questions for your tags, monitor mentions of your product or library, or keep a growing Q&A dataset fresh in a sheet or database.

Notes & limitations

• No API key needed. The Stack Exchange API is public; an optional free Stack Apps key can be supplied to raise the request quota for large runs.
• Question bodies and answers are fetched only when you enable them (each adds API cost/quota).
• Data source: the official Stack Exchange API v2.3. Content is licensed by Stack Exchange under Creative Commons — attribute and link back per their terms.
• The API returns public Q&A content only.

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