Quora Scraper: Answers & Upvotes

recordType	answer
questionUrl	https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing
questionId	839059

How it will work: 3 steps

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Paste your input and press StartNo code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example: https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing in Question URLs. Each start is one run.
Download the resultsWhen the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too.

This tool is an Apify Actor: a small program that runs on Apify. You can also run it on a schedule, for example every Monday. New to it? Read how it works, step by step and the 8 words you need first.

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What it does

Quora Answers Scraper reads public Quora questions and topics and returns their answers: text, author, credential, upvotes, views, shares, comments and dates. No login, cookies or API key.

Question URLs (question) — paste question links, such as https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing. Answer links (…/answer/Name) work too: you get the answers of their question.
Topic (topic) — give topic names or topic links, such as Content Marketing. The Actor reads the questions of each topic and their answers.

Good for

Find what people ask and answer about your product, market or keyword topic.
Collect answers with upvotes and views to pick content ideas or measure interest.
Find active authors and their credentials in a topic.
Feed real questions and answers to research, SEO or AI tools.

Not a good fit

Keyword search. Quora search needs a login, so use a topic instead.
All answers of a big question. Quora hides some answers from logged-out visitors (see Limits).
Profiles, Spaces, followers or private content. The Actor does not log in and does not bypass a login, CAPTCHA or paywall.
Quora in other languages (fr.quora.com, de.quora.com and others). Only English www.quora.com is supported.

Who uses it

Content marketers

Find real questions people ask about your market.

SEO teams

See which answers get the most upvotes and views.

Brand teams

Find mentions of your brand or competitors in answers.

Price

Prices will be shown after release.

Questions

Can I search Quora by keyword?

No. Quora search needs a login. Use a topic name instead.

Why do I get fewer answers than Quora shows?

On big questions, Quora hides part of the answers from logged-out visitors.

Does it include Quora's AI bot answers?

No. Bot answers are skipped and counted in the run summary.

Do I need a Quora account?

No. The Actor reads only what a logged-out visitor sees.

Why is the answer count bigger than the answers I got?

questionAnswerCount is Quora's own count. Quora shows only part of the answers to visitors on big questions.

Why is there a question fee and not only an answer fee?

Each question needs its own page load through a residential proxy, even when it has no answers. The question fee pays for that work, so the answer price can stay low.

Why is a metric null and not 0?

null means Quora did not give the number. 0 means Quora shows zero.

Details

Step by step on Apify

Open Input.
Keep the example: What to scrape Question URLs, Question URLs https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing, Max answers per question 5.
Keep the residential proxy.
Click Start.
Open Answers in the output. Check text, authorName, upvotes and views.

Use cases

Task	Input	Key fields
Content ideas from real questions	`topic` mode, `maxAnswersPerQuestion: 0`	`question`, `questionAnswerCount`
See which answers people like	question URLs	`upvotes`, `views`, `text`
Find experts in a topic	`topic` mode	`authorName`, `authorCredential`, `authorProfileUrl`
Brand or competitor mentions in answers	question URLs about your market	`text`, `createdAt`, `answerUrl`
Data for AI and research	`topic` mode	`question`, `text`, `language`

Tips for better results

Use a topic close to your keyword; Quora search needs a login.
Sort answers by views to find the most read ideas.
Raise the timeout for runs with many questions.

Limits and good to know

Hidden answers. For big questions Quora shows only part of the answers to logged-out visitors. When a question gives fewer answers than you asked for and fewer than its questionAnswerCount, RUN_SUMMARY counts it in hiddenAnswers and adds a warning. The Actor does not log in to get the rest
Quora's AI bot answers are skipped. They are not posts of Quora users. RUN_SUMMARY counts them as machineAnswersSkipped
Empty topics. Some topics show no questions to a logged-out visitor. You get a warning and no rows for that topic
Timeout. The default timeout is 300 seconds: in measured runs, 3 topics × 20 questions took 140 seconds and 100 questions with up to 10 answers took 164 seconds. For bigger runs, raise the timeout in the run options. When time runs out, the run stops on its own: you keep the saved rows, RUN_SUMMARY has stopReason: "TIMEOUT", and the question being read is partial
Answer order is Quora's order. The Actor does not sort by upvotes or date

For developers

Sample result

One result from a real test run, in JSON. Real values change from run to run. In Excel or CSV each field is a column.

one result · JSON

{
  "recordType": "answer",
  "status": "complete",
  "questionUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing",
  "questionId": 839059,
  "question": "What is content marketing?",
  "questionAnswerCount": 371,
  "answerId": 272154354,
  "answerUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing/answer/Otis-Kopp",
  "answerType": "direct",
  "relatedQuestionUrl": null,
  "relatedQuestion": null,
  "text": "Content marketing is a strategy that marketers use to accurately pinpoint the particular interests of consumers, through the creation of advertising campaigns designed to appeal to specific areas of buyer interest. …",
  "authorName": "Otis Kopp",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Otis-Kopp",
  "authorCredential": "Marketing Professional",
  "authorIsAnonymous": false,
  "upvotes": 10,
  "views": 2960,
  "shares": 0,
  "comments": 2,
  "createdAt": "2021-03-24T03:31:06Z",
  "updatedAt": null,
  "language": "en",
  "isAiAnswer": false,
  "topic": null,
  "topicUrl": null,
  "sourceInput": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing",
  "source": "quora.com",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-15T10:55:08.919Z",
  "error": null
}

Data fields (30)

Field	Type	Meaning
`recordType`	string	answer: one answer of a question; question: a question saved without answers (it has none, or Max answers per question is 0); topic: only for a topic that was not found or an invalid topic entry.
`status`	string	complete: read as asked; partial: some answers were read, then the run stopped or Quora failed (see error); not_found: no such question or topic on Quora; error: invalid input entry or a question Quora could not return. not_found and error rows are free.
`questionUrl`	string	Canonical Quora URL of the question.
`questionId`	integer	Quora question ID (qid).
`question`	string	Question title.
`questionAnswerCount`	integer	Answers the question has on Quora (Quora’s own count; null when not shown).
`answerId`	integer	Quora answer ID (aid).
`answerUrl`	string	Permanent link to the answer.
`answerType`	string	direct: posted on this question; related: an answer to a similar question that Quora shows on this question’s page (only with Include related answers).
`relatedQuestionUrl`	string	For related answers: the question the answer was written for.
`relatedQuestion`	string	For related answers: title of that question.
`text`	string	Answer text as plain text (lists kept as "- " / "1. " lines; images omitted).
`authorName`	string	Public name of the author; null for anonymous answers.
`authorProfileUrl`	string	Public Quora profile of the author; null for anonymous answers.
`authorCredential`	string	Credential the author shows on this answer, e.g. "Marketing Director at ...".
`authorIsAnonymous`	boolean	True when the answer was posted anonymously.
`upvotes`	integer	Upvotes. null = Quora did not return the number (not 0).
`views`	integer	Views. null = not returned.
`shares`	integer	Shares. null = not returned.
`comments`	integer	Comments. null = not returned.
`createdAt`	string	When the answer was written (ISO 8601, UTC).
`updatedAt`	string	When the answer was last edited (ISO 8601, UTC); null when never edited.
`language`	string	Content language code, e.g. "en".
`isAiAnswer`	boolean	True when Quora marks the author as an AI account. Quora’s own bot answers are skipped and counted in RUN_SUMMARY.
`topic`	string	Topic name (topic mode).
`topicUrl`	string	Quora topic page (topic mode).
`sourceInput`	string	The question URL or topic from your input that produced this row.
`source`	string	Always quora.com.
`fetchedAt`	string	When the row was read (ISO 8601, UTC).
`error`	string	What went wrong or why the row is partial; null when complete.

Input settings (7)

The main fields of the input form. With the API you send them as JSON.

Setting	Name in the API	Type	Example value
What to scrape	`mode`	string	`"question"`
Question URLs	`questionUrls`	array	`["https://www.quora.com/What-is-content-marketing"]`
Topics	`queries`	array
Max questions	`maxQuestions`	integer
Max answers per question	`maxAnswersPerQuestion`	integer	`5`
Include related answers	`includeRelatedAnswers`	boolean	`false`
Proxy	`proxyConfiguration`	object	`{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "US"}`

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What it does

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Who uses it

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Details

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Sample result

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