📊 StackOverflow Scraper | $4/1K | Emails & Skills (No Key)

Real-time Stack Overflow profile scraper with email and website extraction. Live data — not a stale database. No API key, no browser.

Why This Actor?

	This Actor	SO API	Database Scrapers
Data freshness	Real-time	Real-time	Cached, old
Auth required	No	Yes (API key)	No
Rate limit	High	300 req/day (free)	N/A
Email extraction	Yes (public)	No	Rarely
Website / Blog	Yes	Yes	Sometimes
Badges & Reach	Yes	Yes	No
Social links	Yes (from bio)	No	No
Field selection	You choose	Fixed	Fixed
Price per 1K	$4	Free (limited)	$5-20

Key Feature: Developer Emails & Websites

Stack Overflow developers often display their email and personal website publicly. This Actor extracts both — perfect for tech recruiting and developer outreach. The official SO API does NOT expose emails.

Configurable Fields

Field	Default	Description
Username	✅	SO display name
Full Name	✅	Full name
Bio / About	✅	Bio with social links (Mastodon, Twitter, etc.)
Location	✅	City, country
Reputation / Reach	✅	Reputation score or people reached
Answers / Questions	✅	Number of answers or questions
Profile URL	✅	Stack Overflow URL
Email	✅	Public email (key feature)
Website / Blog	✅	Personal website or blog
Specialization	✅	Category / tech stack
Other Metadata	✅	Badges, member since, top tags, collectives

Input

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
    "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff"
  ],
  "extractEmail": true,
  "extractWebsite": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "inputUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
  "username": "Jon Skeet",
  "fullName": "Jon Skeet",
  "bio": "Author of C# in Depth. Software engineer at Google...",
  "location": "Reading, United Kingdom",
  "reputation": 1524323,
  "answerCount": 35795,
  "profileUrl": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
  "email": "skeet@pobox.com",
  "website": "http://csharpindepth.com",
  "specialization": "Software Engineering",
  "otherMetadata": "Member for 17 years; 895 gold, 9313 silver, 9352 bronze badges; Reached 425.9m"
}

Output contains only the fields you enabled.

Pricing

• $0.004 per profile ($4 per 1,000 profiles)
• Pay only for results — no subscriptions
• Free Apify credits cover ~1,250 profiles/month

Performance

• 30-50 seconds per profile (real-time scraping)
• Up to 20 concurrent requests
• Works on all public Stack Overflow user profiles

Use Cases

• Tech recruiting — find developers with public emails by skill
• Developer outreach — contact open source contributors
• Talent sourcing — identify top answerers in specific technologies
• CRM enrichment — add SO reputation and skills to contacts
• Market research — analyze developer expertise distribution

Notes

• Only public profile data is extracted
• Email is only returned if the developer has set it as public
• Bio often contains social links (Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• "Reputation" maps to SO reputation score or people reached count
• "Other Metadata" includes badges, member since date, top tags, and collectives

Disclaimer

This Actor extracts only publicly available data. Ensure your use complies with applicable laws and Stack Overflow's terms of service.