Get a Quora profile

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Read a public Quora profile page: identity, verified badge, credential line, description, follower and content counters, account creation time, Top Writer years, employment, education, location and language credentials, expertise topics, spaces the user contributes to and the recent activity Quora embeds in the document.

GET/v1/quora/profilex-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

handlestringquery

Profile handle as it appears in quora.com/profile/{handle}; provide either handle or url. Other casings are followed to the canonical handle.

max 400 chars

ExampleAlex-Example-1

urlstringquery

Full profile URL: https://www.quora.com/profile/{handle}.

max 2048 chars

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.

profile.idstring

Always included.

profile.handlestring

Always included.

profile.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

profile.namestringnullable

Always included.

profile.avatarstringnullable

Always included.

profile.verifiedboolean

Always included.

profile.credentialstringnullable

Always included.

profile.descriptionstringnullable

Always included.

profile.followersintegernullable

Always included.

profile.followingintegernullable

Always included.

profile.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

profile.questionCountintegernullable

Always included.

profile.postCountintegernullable

Always included.

profile.contentViewsintegernullable

Always included.

profile.lastMonthContentViewsintegernullable

Always included.

profile.createdAtstringnullable

Always included.

profile.isDeceasedboolean

Always included.

profile.isDeactivatedboolean

Always included.

profile.topWriterYearsinteger[]

Always included.

up to 20 items

profile.employment.positionstringnullable

Always included.

profile.employment.companystringnullable

Always included.

profile.employment.startYearintegernullable

Always included.

profile.employment.endYearintegernullable

Always included.

profile.employment.isCurrentboolean

Always included.

up to 20 items

profile.education.schoolstringnullable

Always included.

profile.education.degreestringnullable

Always included.

profile.education.concentrationstringnullable

Always included.

profile.education.endYearintegernullable

Always included.

up to 20 items

profile.locations.locationstringnullable

Always included.

profile.locations.startYearintegernullable

Always included.

profile.locations.endYearintegernullable

Always included.

profile.locations.isCurrentboolean

Always included.

profile.languagesstring[]

Always included.

up to 20 items

Topics Quora lists as the user's expertise (id, name, url, followers, answerCount); expertise_topics_truncated is warned when the page paginates more.

up to 20 items

profile.expertiseTopics.idstring

Always included.

profile.expertiseTopics.namestring

Always included.

profile.expertiseTopics.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

profile.expertiseTopics.followersintegernullable

Always included.

profile.expertiseTopics.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

Spaces the user contributes to (id, name, url, icon, itemCount); spaces_truncated is warned when the page paginates more.

up to 20 items

profile.spaces.idstring

Always included.

profile.spaces.namestring

Always included.

profile.spaces.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

profile.spaces.iconstringnullable

Always included.

profile.spaces.itemCountintegernullable

Always included.

up to 20 items

profile.recentActivity.typeenum

Always included.

one of: post, answer, question

profile.recentActivity.idstring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

profile.recentActivity.titlestringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.content.textstring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.content.imagesstring[]

Always included.

up to 50 items

profile.recentActivity.content.linksstring[]

Always included.

up to 100 items

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.idstringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.namestringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.handlestringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.urlstringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.avatarstringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.verifiedboolean

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.isAnonymousboolean

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.author.credentialstringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.createdAtstringnullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.upvotesintegernullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.viewsintegernullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.sharesintegernullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.commentsintegernullable

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.space.idstring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.space.namestring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.space.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.question.idstring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.question.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

profile.recentActivity.question.slugstring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.question.titlestring

Always included.

profile.recentActivity.question.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

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/profile?handle=Alex-Example-1" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/profile?handle=Alex-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/profile?handle=Alex-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/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "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/profile?handle=Alex-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/profile?handle=Alex-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,
  "profile": {
    "id": "700000002",
    "handle": "Alex-Example-1",
    "url": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Example-1",
    "name": "Alex Example",
    "avatar": "https://static.example.test/main-thumb-700000002-200.jpeg",
    "verified": true,
    "credential": "Example engineer",
    "description": "Builds examples\nSecond line",
    "followers": 42,
    "following": 7,
    "answerCount": 3,
    "questionCount": 1,
    "postCount": 2,
    "contentViews": 1234,
    "lastMonthContentViews": 56,
    "createdAt": "2020-09-13T12:26:40.000Z",
    "isDeceased": false,
    "isDeactivated": false,
    "topWriterYears": [
      2021
    ],
    "employment": [
      {
        "position": "Engineer",
        "company": "Example Co",
        "startYear": 2020,
        "endYear": null,
        "isCurrent": true
      },
      {
        "position": null,
        "company": "Former Co",
        "startYear": 2017,
        "endYear": 2019,
        "isCurrent": false
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "school": "Example University",
        "degree": "BSc",
        "concentration": "Computing",
        "endYear": 2019
      }
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "location": "Example City",
        "startYear": null,
        "endYear": 2021,
        "isCurrent": false
      }
    ],
    "languages": [
      "Esperanto"
    ],
    "expertiseTopics": [
      {
        "id": "1001",
        "name": "Example Topic",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/topic/Example-Topic",
        "followers": 999,
        "answerCount": 2
      }
    ],
    "spaces": [
      {
        "id": "5001",
        "name": "Example Space",
        "url": "https://examplespace.quora.com/",
        "icon": "https://static.example.test/space-icon-100.jpeg",
        "itemCount": 4
      }
    ],
    "recentActivity": [
      {
        "type": "post",
        "id": "600000001",
        "url": "https://examplespace.quora.com/An-example-post",
        "title": "An example post",
        "content": {
          "text": "An example post body.",
          "images": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "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": "2024-07-03T09:46:40.000Z",
        "upvotes": 9,
        "views": 250,
        "shares": 3,
        "comments": 4,
        "space": {
          "id": "5001",
          "name": "Example Space",
          "url": "https://examplespace.quora.com/"
        },
        "question": null
      },
      {
        "type": "answer",
        "id": "800000005",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question/answer/Alex-Example-1",
        "title": null,
        "content": {
          "text": "An example answer.",
          "images": [],
          "links": []
        },
        "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": null
        },
        "createdAt": "2024-06-21T20:00:00.000Z",
        "upvotes": 3,
        "views": 77,
        "shares": 0,
        "comments": 1,
        "space": null,
        "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
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-Example-1",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "spaces_truncated",
      "malformed_items_omitted"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 19671,
    "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."
  }
}