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🔍 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

📥 Input

{
"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.