Quora Questions & Answers Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Quora hosts millions of publicly viewable question-and-answer threads across every topic imaginable, but there's no official export or API for pulling that content into your own dataset. This Actor takes Quora question URLs, topic URLs, or search keywords and returns structured rows: question text, topic tags, and answer bodies with author, upvote count, and post date. Content gated behind Quora's 'Continue Reading' or login wall is flagged, never bypassed — this is public-page-only, read-only scraping. Core Features: multi-seed input (question URLs, topic URLs, or keywords), per-question fault isolation, and typed dataset rows.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so Quora sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Proxy session rotation via Apify Proxy, with the exit country pinned to your proxyCountryCode on every session.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 503 — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Managed-challenge detection — a Cloudflare challenge page rotates the browser fingerprint and proxy session instead of being parsed as content.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable question/answer IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for rows that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• SEO / content-gap research — pull real Quora questions and top answers in your niche to find topics your own content doesn't cover yet.
• AI-answer-quality corpus building — collect real question/answer pairs with upvote signal as training or eval data for LLM answer-quality work.
• Community sentiment tracking — monitor how a topic's top answers change over time as new responses get upvoted.
• Competitive research — see which questions in your industry get the most engagement and who's answering them.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "questionUrls": [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-Python"
  ],
  "maxAnswersPerQuestion": 3,
  "contentMode": "full_answers",
  "proxyCountryCode": "US",
  "runTimeoutSeconds": 300,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

question_idquestion_textquestion_urlquestion_topicsquestion_answer_countanswer_idanswer_textanswer_is_truncatedanswer_author_nameanswer_author_handleanswer_upvotesanswer_posted_atanswer_urlcontent_modesource_seedscraped_at

{
  "question_id": "What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-Python",
  "question_text": "What is the best way to learn Python?",
  "question_url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-Python",
  "question_topics": [
    "Python (programming language)",
    "Programming Languages"
  ],
  "question_answer_count": 214,
  "answer_id": "answer-123456789",
  "answer_text": "Start with a small project instead of a course...",
  "answer_is_truncated": false,
  "answer_author_name": "Jane Doe",
  "answer_author_handle": "jane-doe-42",
  "answer_upvotes": 318,
  "answer_posted_at": "Updated 3d ago",
  "answer_url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-Python#answer-123456789",
  "content_mode": "full_answers",
  "source_seed": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-Python",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-11T12:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.