Get a Quora answer

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Read one public answer page (/{question}/answer/{author} or /{question}/answers/{id}): full rich-text content with images and links, author, credential, timestamps and counters. The answer's identity is verified against the request.

GET/v1/quora/answerx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

urlstringrequiredquery

Full answer URL: https://www.quora.com/{question-slug}/answer/{author-handle} or https://www.quora.com/{question-slug}/answers/{answer-id}.

max 2048 chars

Examplehttps://www.quora.com/What-is-another-example-question/answer/Alex-Example-1

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream document reads (canonical redirect hops count), decoded bytes delivered to the parser and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable public data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public Quora URL the response describes, without query or fragment.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Complete means every supported field embedded in the page was read; warnings name each cap (lists the page truncates, malformed items).

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_page, web_index

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

answer.idstring

Always included.

answer.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

The question the answer was written for (id, url, slug, title, answerCount).

answer.question.idstring

Always included.

answer.question.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

answer.question.slugstring

Always included.

answer.question.titlestring

Always included.

answer.question.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

answer.isFromOtherQuestionboolean

True when Quora surfaces the answer from a merged or related question rather than the requested one.

Always included.

answer.content.textstring

Plain text rendered from Quora's rich-text document: one line per section, numbered and bulleted lists marked, quoted sections prefixed with '> ', embedded link cards reduced to their title.

answer.content.imagesstring[]

Image URLs (original resolution when Quora publishes it) in document order, deduplicated; never downloaded.

up to 50 items

answer.content.linksstring[]

Link and embed destinations in document order, deduplicated; never followed.

up to 100 items

Always included.

answer.author.idstringnullable

Always included.

answer.author.namestringnullable

Always included.

answer.author.handlestringnullable

Always included.

answer.author.urlstringnullable

Always included.

answer.author.avatarstringnullable

Profile image URL as published; never downloaded.

answer.author.verifiedboolean

Always included.

answer.author.isAnonymousboolean

Always included.

answer.author.credentialstringnullable

The credential line Quora shows next to the author (work, education, language or free-form), or null.

answer.createdAtstring

Always included.

answer.updatedAtstringnullable

Always included.

answer.upvotesintegernullable

Always included.

answer.viewsintegernullable

Always included.

answer.sharesintegernullable

Always included.

answer.commentsintegernullable

Always included.

answer.isMachineAnswerboolean

True for Quora's AI-generated answers.

answer.isCollapsedboolean

True when the answer is collapsed for logged-out readers or by moderation.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, ambiguous or unsupported parameters, unsupported URL forms, locale mirrors or reserved names.
503	`search_unavailable`	The search routes were called without a configured search key.
502	`search_failed`	The web search index answered with an error, a non-JSON body or an unexpected shape.
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown question, answer, profile, topic or space (Quora's 404 page or its home-page fallback).
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Quora rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Quora's Cloudflare edge answered a challenge instead of the document (status challenged).
502	`unsafe_redirect`	Quora redirected outside the requested resource (another question, a locale mirror, a login wall).
502	`unsupported_page`	Layout, identity or embedded-data checks failed, or a non-HTML document was served.
502	`response_too_large`	The page exceeded 3 MiB.
502	`payload_too_complex`	The page embedded more or larger Relay payloads than supported.
502	`request_limit`	The upstream document budget was exhausted.
502	`upstream_error`	Network failure or an unexpected upstream status after one retry.
503	`busy`	Both retrieval slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	The 30-second deadline elapsed.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-another-example-question%2Fanswer%2FAlex-Example-1" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-another-example-question%2Fanswer%2FAlex-Example-1",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-another-example-question%2Fanswer%2FAlex-Example-1",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Quora request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answer",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-another-example-question/answer/Alex-Example-1"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-another-example-question%2Fanswer%2FAlex-Example-1", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-another-example-question%2Fanswer%2FAlex-Example-1"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "answer": {
    "id": "800000001",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-another-example-question/answer/Alex-Example-1",
    "question": {
      "id": "900000002",
      "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-another-example-question",
      "slug": "What-is-another-example-question",
      "title": "What is another example question?",
      "answerCount": 1
    },
    "isFromOtherQuestion": false,
    "content": {
      "text": "First link & \"quotes\".\n1. Step one\n2. Step two\n  - Bullet\nEmbedded title\n> Quoted line",
      "images": [
        "https://static.example.test/img-master.jpg"
      ],
      "links": [
        "https://example.test/page?ref=1",
        "https://embed.example.test/x"
      ]
    },
    "author": {
      "id": "700000002",
      "name": "Alex Example",
      "handle": "Alex-Example-1",
      "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Example-1",
      "avatar": "https://static.example.test/main-thumb-700000002-200.jpeg",
      "verified": true,
      "isAnonymous": false,
      "credential": "Engineer at Example Co"
    },
    "createdAt": "2023-11-14T22:13:20.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2023-11-14T23:13:20.000Z",
    "upvotes": 5,
    "views": 120,
    "shares": 1,
    "comments": 2,
    "isMachineAnswer": false,
    "isCollapsed": false
  },
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-another-example-question/answer/Alex-Example-1",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 5982,
    "durationMs": 2400
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, ambiguous or unsupported parameters, unsupported URL forms, locale mirrors or reserved names.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}