Quora Scraper

Scrape Quora questions and answers by providing direct question URLs. Extracts answer text, author info, upvote counts, and engagement metrics from public Quora pages.

Features

• Scrape questions and answers by direct question URL
• Extracts question title, answer text, author credentials, and upvotes
• Automatically gets past Quora's bot-protection challenge to reach the real page content
• Configurable maximum items and answers per question

Keyword search is not available. Quora does not server-render /search results, so they cannot be read without a logged-in session. Provide direct question URLs in startUrls instead. Topic, profile, and search-result pages are not supported either — only direct question pages.

Usage

Direct URL Scraping

Provide specific Quora question URLs to scrape directly:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-machine-learning" },
    { "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-Python-programming" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxAnswersPerQuestion": 3
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	—	Direct Quora question URLs to scrape. Required.
maxItems	Integer	10	Maximum total records (question+answer pairs) to scrape.
maxAnswersPerQuestion	Integer	5	Maximum answers to extract per question page.

startUrls with at least one direct question URL is required.

Output

Each output record represents one answer to a Quora question:

{
  "question_url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-machine-learning",
  "question_title": "What is machine learning?",
  "answer_author": "Jane Smith",
  "answer_author_bio": "PhD in Computer Science, Stanford",
  "answer_text": "Machine learning is a branch of computer science...",
  "answer_upvotes": "2.1K",
  "answer_index": 1,
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-07T20:00:00.000Z"
}

If a question has no accessible answers (login gating), a record is still saved with the question title and null answer fields.

Notes

• Quora content is public for most questions but may require a login for some. The actor scrapes available content without authentication.
• Answer counts per question depend on how many answers Quora renders before the login wall appears.