How to Scrape Stack Overflow Questions by Tag
Export Stack Overflow questions, bodies, tags, scores, views, answer counts, owners, and dates through the official Stack Exchange API.
The Stack Exchange Questions Scraper turns official API searches into structured datasets. Provide sites, optional text queries, and up to five required tags. Choose activity, creation, votes, or relevance sorting and optionally require an accepted answer.
Rows include question ID, title, HTML and plain-text body, tags, score, views, answer count, accepted answer ID, dates, owner metadata, and source link. Use question ID plus site as the stable key.
For tag monitoring, leave the text query empty and sort by creation or activity. Save the exact site and tags with every snapshot. The API quota is finite for keyless use, so favor scheduled bounded searches over wasteful polling.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Actor bypass Stack Overflow pages?
No. It uses the official Stack Exchange API and respects its backoff response.
Can it query sites beyond Stack Overflow?
Yes. Supply API site parameters such as serverfault, superuser, askubuntu, or math.