Stack Overflow Questions Scraper

Collect Stack Overflow questions with full bodies, answers and scores.

$0.005 per page
200 free credits
Maintained by Hyperscrape

For AI agents & developers

AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below executes the scrape and returns JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included. The URL with no parameters returns every parameter; if the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide

https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/stackoverflow-scraper?tags=web-scraping

About

Fetches questions from Stack Overflow using the official Stack Exchange API (filter=withbody) — no key required for modest volumes. Filter by tags and sort (votes, activity, newest, hot). Each item includes:

title, link, full question body (plain text)
score, view count, answer count, tags, answered status
owner with display name, reputation, profile link and avatar
created / last-activity dates as ISO 8601
optionally the top answers (score-ordered) each with body, score, accepted flag and owner — plus the accepted answer surfaced separately.

Answers for a whole page of questions are fetched in one batched API call, so quota use stays low. Useful for developer-trend research, LLM training data and Q&A datasets.

Input

`tags`* array	Stack Overflow tags to filter by (e.g. python, javascript).
`sort` select	Question ordering.(default: "votes")
`limit` integer	How many questions to collect.(default: 50)
`includeAnswers` boolean	Fetch top answers for each question (one extra batched request per page).(default: true)
`answersPerQuestion` integer	Max answers to attach to each question (top-voted; accepted always kept).(default: 3)

{
  "tags": [
    "web-scraping"
  ],
  "sort": "votes",
  "limit": 20,
  "includeAnswers": true
}

Output fields

questionIdtitlelinkbodyscoreviewCountanswerCounttagsisAnsweredownercreatedAtlastActivityAtanswersacceptedAnswer

Authenticated API (optional)

Only for account features — saved datasets, schedules, higher limits. API reference

curl -X POST \
  https://hyperscrape.com/api/v1/scrapers/stackoverflow-scraper/runs?waitForFinish=120 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tags":["web-scraping"],"sort":"votes","limit":20,"includeAnswers":true}'

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