Welcome to Quora Scraper

❓ About Quora.com

Quora[5] (/ˈkwoʊrə/) is a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009,[6] and made available to the public on June 21, 2010.[7] Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that have been submitted by other users.[8] As of 2020, the website was visited by 300 million users a month.[9]

❓ About This Actor

Discover insights and trends on Quora like never before with the Quora Explorer. This powerful tool automates the process of extracting data from Quora, enabling you to gather valuable information, analyze trends, and gain deep insights from the platform's vast repository of questions, answers, and discussions. Whether you're a marketer seeking to understand audience sentiment or a researcher exploring user-generated content, this actor streamlines your data extraction process, saving you time and effort while providing comprehensive Quora data at your fingertips.

⚠️ Disclaimer : Starting from not so long ago, to search on Quora requires your Login session (cookies). Otherwise this actor will not return any results. (see "IMPORTANT NOTES")

❓ IMPORTANT NOTES

Quora Search

Starting from not so long ago, searching on Quora requires your Login session (m-b and m-lat cookies). To obtain your session cookie values please follow this steps :

Google Chrome

1. Login to Quora.com
2. Open Chrome Developer Tools (Ctrl + Shift + I)
3. Open Application Tab
4. On left panel, go to: Storage > Cookies > https://www.quora.com
5. Find cookie named m-b and m-lat
6. Copy & Paste Here :

☢️ Advanced Options

Example Cookies

1{
2	"query": ["how to scrape quora"],
3	"limit": 10,
4    "dev_custom_cookies": [
5        { "key": "m-b", 	"value": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" },
6        { "key": "m-lat", 	"value": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" }
7    ]
8}

❓ Tutorial

📁 Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
query	string array	List of Query, Search Terms or URL
limit	integer	Number of results (per-query)
portal	string	Portal/Language
filters	object	Search filters

📁 Basic Usage

Searching answers

{ "query": ["Where are the aliens ?"], "filters.kind": "answer", "limit": 10 }

Using URL

{ "query": ["https://www.quora.com/search?q=Where%20are%20the%20aliens&type=answer"], "limit": 10 }

📁 QUORA Query Language (QQL)

[ <COMMAND:> | # | @ ] [ <NAME> | <ID> | <KEYWORD> | <URL> ] [ /<SECTION> ]

📁 Possible QUERY Values

Format	Example	Description
<KEYWORDS>	How to travel back in time ?	Search Anything Requires Login Cookies
question:<QUESTION_ID>	question:123456790	Question Data
/info	question:123456790/info	Question info
/answers	question:123456790/answers	Question answers
/comments	question:123456790/comments	Question comments
/followers	question:123456790/followers	Question followers
answer:<ANSWER_ID>	answer:123456790	Answer Data
/info	answer:123456790/info	Answer info
/comments	answer:123456790/comments	Answer comments
/upvotes	answer:123456790/upvotes	Answer upvoted users
@<USER_NAME_OR_ID>	@elonmusk or @1234567890	User Data
/info	@elonmusk/info	User info
/profile	@elonmusk/profile	User profile recent posts
/top_profile	@elonmusk/top_profile	User profile top posts
/answers	@elonmusk/answers	User recent answer
/top_answers	@elonmusk/top_answers	User top answers
/questions	@elonmusk/questions	User questions
/posts	@elonmusk/posts	User recent posts
/top_posts	@elonmusk/top_posts	User top posts
/followers	@elonmusk/followers	User followers
/following	@elonmusk/following	User following users
/spaces	@elonmusk/spaces	User following spaces
/topics	@elonmusk/topics	User following topics
/following_questions	@elonmusk/following_questions	User following questions
/expertise	@elonmusk/expertise	User knows about
space:<SPACE_NAME_OR_ID>	space:apify	Space Data (aka. Tribe) example: https://apify.quora.com
/info	space:apify/info	Space info
/posts	space:apify/posts	Space recent posts (default)
/top_posts	space:apify/top_posts	Space top posts
/questions	space:apify/questions	Space questions
/unanswered	space:apify/unanswered	Space unanswered questions
/followers	space:apify/followers	Space followers
/admins	space:apify/admins	Space admins
/moderators	space:apify/moderators	Space moderators
/contributors	space:apify/contributors	Space contributors
topic:<TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID>	topic:Technology	Topic Data (aka. Hashtag)
#<TOPIC_NAME_OR_ID>	#Technology
/posts	#Technology/posts
/answers	#Technology/answers
/questions	#Technology/questions
https:<URL>	https://www.quora.com	Start URL
<LANGUAGE>.quora.com	https://id.quora.com/...	Language URL
<SPACE>.quora.com	https://apify.quora.com/...	Spaces URL

❓ Input Examples

Example #1: Searching

Searching answers

1{
2	"query": ["Where are the aliens ?"], "filters.kind": "answer", "limit": 10
3}

❓ Output Samples

❓ Support

⚡️ Feel free to reach out to the developer for any issues or suggestions for improvement.