Pricing

from $0.30 / 1,000 questions

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper

Search Stack Overflow or any Stack Exchange site's free public API by keyword or tag and get one row per question — score, tags, author, view/answer counts and the accepted answer's text.

Pricing

from $0.30 / 1,000 questions

Rating

0.0

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Developer

Murat Uzun

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Monthly active users

16 days ago

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Developer tools

Automation

You can access the Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "queries": [
10        "web scraping",
11        "playwright timeout",
12    ],
13    "site": "stackoverflow",
14    "tagged": ["python"],
15    "sortBy": "votes",
16    "minScore": 0,
17    "includeAnswers": False,
18    "maxResults": 50,
19}
20
21# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22run = client.actor("webdatatools/stackexchange-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
23
24# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
25print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
26for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
27    print(item)
28
29# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API in JavaScript

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API through CLI

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper OpenAPI definition

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API

YouTube Channel Scraper (videos, shorts, live)

webdatatools/youtube-channel-scraper

YouTube Channel Scraper extracts videos, Shorts or livestreams from any YouTube channel — title, views, duration, publish time and thumbnail — no API key or quota needed.

Murat Uzun

Stack Overflow

jupri/stackexchange

cat

Stack Overflow & StackExchange Search

ryanclinton/stackexchange-search

Search Stack Overflow and the StackExchange network for questions using the official StackExchange API v2.3. Extract questions with scores, answer counts, view counts, tags, and author details from nine popular Q&A communities.

Ryan Clinton

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API

f0rty7even/stackexchange-scraper

Scrape questions and answers from Stack Overflow and any Stack Exchange site via the official API. Filter by tag, keyword, and sort. Clean text output, perfect for LLM/RAG datasets and dev research.

Michael Yousrie

StackOverflow Scraper

muscular_quadruplet/stackoverflow-scraper

Scrape Stack Overflow questions, answers, tags. Extract developer Q&A, code snippets, vote counts. Build knowledge bases, analyze programming trends, find solutions. No login required.

Do It

Bulk Image Downloader

webdatatools/bulk-image-downloader

Download images from URLs and store them in the key-value store with metadata including dimensions, file size, and SHA256 hash. Supports bulk input from URLs or from another Actor's dataset.

Murat Uzun

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Scraper

ponderable_hydrometer/stackexchange-scraper

Search Stack Overflow & any Stack Exchange site for questions — and their answers — by keyword, tags, votes. Free API, optional key for higher quota. For research & datasets.

Ponderable Hydrometer

Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper

chrisp1211/stackexchange-scraper-max

Scrape questions from Stack Overflow and 170+ Stack Exchange sites by keyword or tag. Returns title, score, views, answers, tags and body. No API key. Pay only per question; empty or failed runs cost nothing.

Christian Pichichero

Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange Scraper: Q&A, Tags

glitchbound/stackexchange-scraper

Search Stack Overflow and 24 other Stack Exchange sites: question title and full body, score, views, tags, author reputation, and optionally every answer with the accepted one flagged. Official API, no key needed.

Daniel Meshulam

Stack Overflow Question Search - Developer Q&A Data

northglasslabs/stackoverflow-search

Search Stack Overflow questions using the free Stack Exchange API. Returns question titles, scores, view counts, answer counts, tags, owner reputation, and links. No authentication required.