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Search public Quora answers by keyword and return answer records in ranking order.

GET/v1/quora/answersx-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

querystringrequiredquery

Keywords, 1-200 characters.

min 1 chars · max 200 chars

Exampleexample query

timeenumdefault: "all"query

Recency window: all (default), hour, day, week, month or year. hour is applied at day granularity with the time_filter_day_granularity warning.

one of: all, hour, day, week, month, year · default: "all"

limitintegerdefault: 10query

Most answers to return, 1-10 (default 10); question pages are read until the limit or the five-page budget is reached.

default: 10 · 1 – 10

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

One index request plus one document read per question page (at most five), decoded bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when the index answered; an empty items list is a successful search with no matching public page.

statusenum

success, partial (the hour window is applied at day granularity) or failed.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

The web search index endpoint used for discovery (no query included); Quora pages are read by the page endpoints.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Source is web_index. search_page_unavailable marks question pages that could not be read, search_reads_capped that more matching questions existed than the five-page budget, answers_truncated/malformed_answers_omitted come from the pages themselves.

coverage.sourceenum

Always included.

one of: public_page, web_index

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Always included.

querystring

Keywords, 1-200 characters.

timeenum

Recency window: all (default), hour, day, week, month or year. hour is applied at day granularity with the time_filter_day_granularity warning.

one of: all, hour, day, week, month, year

Answers in page order (same shape as the question endpoint's answers, including question, author, content, counters and isFromOtherQuestion).

up to 10 items

items.idstring

Always included.

items.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

items.question.idstring

Always included.

items.question.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

items.question.slugstring

Always included.

items.question.titlestring

Always included.

items.question.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

items.isFromOtherQuestionboolean

Always included.

items.content.textstring

Always included.

items.content.imagesstring[]

Always included.

up to 50 items

items.content.linksstring[]

Always included.

up to 100 items

Always included.

items.author.idstringnullable

Always included.

items.author.namestringnullable

Always included.

items.author.handlestringnullable

Always included.

items.author.urlstringnullable

Always included.

items.author.avatarstringnullable

Always included.

items.author.verifiedboolean

Always included.

items.author.isAnonymousboolean

Always included.

items.author.credentialstringnullable

Always included.

items.createdAtstring

Always included.

items.updatedAtstringnullable

Always included.

items.upvotesintegernullable

Always included.

items.viewsintegernullable

Always included.

items.sharesintegernullable

Always included.

items.commentsintegernullable

Always included.

items.isMachineAnswerboolean

Always included.

items.isCollapsedboolean

Always included.

sourceQuestionsstring[]

Canonical URLs of the question pages that were read, in order.

up to 5 items

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/answers?query=example+query" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/answers?query=example+query",
  {
    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/answers?query=example+query",
  {
    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/answers",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "example query"
    },
    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/answers?query=example+query", 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/answers?query=example+query"))
            .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,
  "query": "example query",
  "time": "all",
  "items": [
    {
      "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": true,
      "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
    },
    {
      "id": "800000002",
      "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question/answers/800000002",
      "question": {
        "id": "900000001",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question",
        "slug": "What-is-an-example-question",
        "title": "What is an example question?",
        "answerCount": 3
      },
      "isFromOtherQuestion": false,
      "content": {
        "text": "An example answer.",
        "images": [],
        "links": []
      },
      "author": {
        "id": null,
        "name": null,
        "handle": null,
        "url": null,
        "avatar": "https://static.example.test/anon-200.png",
        "verified": false,
        "isAnonymous": true,
        "credential": null
      },
      "createdAt": "2023-11-14T22:13:20.000Z",
      "updatedAt": null,
      "upvotes": 5,
      "views": 120,
      "shares": 1,
      "comments": 0,
      "isMachineAnswer": false,
      "isCollapsed": true
    },
    {
      "id": "800000003",
      "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question/answers/800000003",
      "question": {
        "id": "900000001",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question",
        "slug": "What-is-an-example-question",
        "title": "What is an example question?",
        "answerCount": 3
      },
      "isFromOtherQuestion": false,
      "content": {
        "text": "An example answer.",
        "images": [],
        "links": []
      },
      "author": {
        "id": "700000003",
        "name": "Sam Sample",
        "handle": "Sam-Sample",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Sam-Sample",
        "avatar": "https://static.example.test/main-thumb-700000003-200.jpeg",
        "verified": false,
        "isAnonymous": false,
        "credential": null
      },
      "createdAt": "2024-03-09T16:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": null,
      "upvotes": 5,
      "views": 0,
      "shares": 1,
      "comments": 2,
      "isMachineAnswer": true,
      "isCollapsed": false
    }
  ],
  "sourceQuestions": [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question"
  ],
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
  "sourceUrl": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "web_index",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "malformed_answers_omitted",
      "search_page_unavailable"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 4,
    "responseBytes": 42097,
    "durationMs": 3100
  }
}

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."
  }
}