🔍 Quora Search Scraper

Search Quora by keyword or paste direct links and get clean, structured data — questions ❓, answers 💬, profiles 👤, topics 🏷️ and spaces 🪐 — complete with engagement metrics (upvotes, comments, shares, followers, views). No Quora login required.

Quora sits behind Cloudflare, so this Actor renders pages with a real stealth browser and reads Quora's own embedded GraphQL data — giving you accurate counts and full answer text, not truncated previews.

⭐ Why Choose Us?

• 🛡️ Smart proxy ladder — starts on a direct connection, automatically climbs to a datacenter proxy and then sticks on a residential proxy only when Quora pushes back. You don't lift a finger.
• 💬 Full answer bodies — complete text, author, credentials, age and engagement counts.
• 🗂️ Per-section output — every content type gets its own clean table view.
• 💾 Live results — rows stream to the dataset as they're collected; a stopped run still keeps everything gathered so far.
• 🔁 Robust retries — exponential backoff and proxy escalation on blocks.

🚀 Key Features

Feature	Details
🔎 Keyword search	Discovers Quora question URLs via DuckDuckGo (Bing fallback)
🔗 Direct URLs	Questions, profiles, topics, spaces — bulk input supported
💬 Answers	Text, author, credentials, upvotes, comments, shares, age, AI-answer flag
❓ Questions	Title, answer count, follower count, topics
👤 Profiles	Name, bio, credentials, followers, following, answers, views
🏷️ Topics & 🪐 Spaces	Name, description, followers, posts/questions, contributors

📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Keywords to search on Quora
directUrls	array	Direct Quora URLs (bulk supported)
maxResults	integer	Total number of result rows to collect across all keywords and URLs (1–50000)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings (residential recommended)

{
  "searchQueries": ["what is python used for"],
  "directUrls": [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-Python-primarily-used-for",
    "https://www.quora.com/topic/Python-programming-language-1",
    "https://www.quora.com/profile/Guido-van-Rossum-1"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

📤 Output

Each row carries a content_type field (question, answer, profile, topic, space). Switch the view dropdown in the Output tab to see each section separately.

{
  "content_type": "answer",
  "title": "What is Python primarily used for?",
  "answer_text": "Python is a programming language…",
  "author_name": "Bill Poucher",
  "author_url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Poucher",
  "author_credentials": "ICPC Exec Director, Baylor CS Prof",
  "upvotes": 15,
  "comments_count": 1,
  "shares_count": 0,
  "answer_timestamp": "9y",
  "is_ai_answer": false,
  "question_url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-Python-primarily-used-for",
  "source_query": "what is python used for",
  "scrape_timestamp": "2026-06-10T07:40:52+00:00"
}

🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at https://console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open Quora Search Scraper.
3. Enter searchQueries and/or directUrls, set maxResults, pick a proxy.
4. Click Start.
5. Watch the engaging real-time logs.
6. Open the Output tab and switch views to browse each section.
7. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["what is python used for"],"maxResults":10,"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}}'

🎯 Best Use Cases

• Market & audience research, content ideation, lead and expert discovery, competitive Q&A monitoring, and training-data collection.

💲 Pricing

This Actor uses the pay-per-event model — you are billed per row returned (event row_result). You only pay for data you actually receive.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Quora account? No — everything is public data.

Why is residential proxy recommended? Quora's Cloudflare protection is strict; residential IPs clear it most reliably. The Actor will escalate to residential automatically if needed.

I got 0 results. Enable the Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy in the input and retry — datacenter IPs are sometimes fully blocked.

⚖️ Cautions / Legal

Data is collected only from publicly available Quora pages. You are responsible for compliance with Quora's ToS and applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).

📨 Support

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with your run ID and input.