Stack Exchange Scraper API - Stack Overflow Questions

Stack Exchange Q&A Scraper API — Developer Questions & Trends

Search the official Stack Exchange API for source-linked Stack Overflow and network Q&A by tags, title, answer state, score, views, answer count, dates, and activity. Optionally attach bounded accepted and top-answer evidence.

Default input

{"site":"stackoverflow","tags":["go"],"sort":"activity","order":"desc","maxResults":5}

This returns up to five recently active Go questions. Maximum first-run charge: $0.0101 ($0.0001 start + 5 × $0.002 items).

Enriched example

{
  "site":"stackoverflow",
  "tags":["go","http"],
  "title":"timeout",
  "answered":"yes",
  "minScore":2,
  "includeAnswers":true,
  "answersPerQuestion":3,
  "includeBodies":false,
  "maxPages":3,
  "maxResults":20
}

Question rows preserve IDs, tags, owner/profile links, question links, accepted/answered state, scores, views, answer counts, timestamps, quota/backoff fields, exact source query, retrieval time, and bounded-query disclosure. Optional answers remain nested and include accepted status, score, timestamps, owner, and answer link. HTML bodies are omitted unless explicitly enabled and are then preserved as unrendered, character-capped source text.

maxPages (1–10), maxResults (1–100), and answersPerQuestion (1–10) bound requests and output. The client retries transport/status/body/malformed-response transients, honors bounded source backoff, and stops explicitly on quota exhaustion. No API key is required.

No-match and source-outage runs return explicit evidence records. Bounded searches are not complete-corpus searches.

Important limits

Stack Exchange content is community-authored and can be edited, deleted, outdated, unsafe, or incorrect. Votes, views, accepted answers, reputation, and activity are community signals—not technical correctness, security, completeness, official endorsement, or current best practice. Confirm consequential guidance against current documentation and your own tests.

See the full README for all filters, pricing, and source links.

How to use

1. Open Stack Exchange Scraper API - Stack Overflow Questions in Apify Console and click Start (or Try for free).
2. Fill in the input form - start with Stack Exchange Site, Required Tags, Source Sort. Every field is optional unless marked required, and the form is prefilled with a working example.
3. Set Maximum results to cap your cost, then run the Actor.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull them with the Apify API.

Example input

{
  "site": "stackoverflow",
  "tags": [
    "go"
  ],
  "minScore": 0,
  "minViews": 0,
  "minAnswers": 0,
  "sort": "activity",
  "order": "desc",
  "includeAnswers": false,
  "answersPerQuestion": 3,
  "includeBodies": false,
  "maxBodyCharacters": 4000,
  "maxPages": 3,
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output example

One record from a real run (long values shortened, contact details partly masked):

{
  "evidenceStatus": "FOUND",
  "questionId": 64035165,
  "title": "unsupported data type: &[] error on GORM field where custom Valuer returns nil?",
  "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64035165/unsupported-data-type-error-on-gorm-field-where-custom-valuer-returns-nil",
  "tags": [
    "postgresql",
    "go",
    "go-gorm"
  ],
  "owner": {
    "userId": 8685016,
    "displayName": "robbieperry22",
    "link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/8685016/robbieperry22",
    "reputation": 2303,
    "userType": "registered"
  },
  "isAnswered": true,
  "acceptedAnswerId": 64035166,
  "score": 17,
  "viewCount": 39028,
  "answerCount": 3,
  "creationDate": "2020-09-23T19:39:09Z",
  "lastActivityDate": "2026-11-11T17:06:26Z",
  "answers": [],
  "quotaRemaining": 299,
  "quotaMax": 300,
  "backoffSeconds": 0,
  "sourceApi": "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3",
  "sourceQueryUrl": "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/search/advanced?order=desc&page=1&pagesize=5&site=stackoverflow&sort=activity&tagged=go",
  "sourceRetrievedAt": "2026-11-11T18:00:02Z",
  "pagesChecked": 1,
  "pageLimitApplied": false,
  "hasMoreAtSource": true,
  "coverageNote": "Checked at most 3 API pages and returned at most 5 questions; local view/answer/activity filters apply only to retrieved candidates.",
  "evidenceCaveat": "Votes, views, answer acceptance, and activity are community signals, not proof of technical correctness, security, completeness, or current best practice. Re..."
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per stack exchange q&a scraper api - developer trends evidence item plus $0.0001 per run start. No subscription to this Actor is needed. Apify Store discounts apply, so the price per result is lower on Silver, Gold and higher Apify plans. Use Maximum results to cap the cost of each run.