Get a Quora question with its answers

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Read a public Quora question with identity, counts, topics, flags, answers in ranking order, related questions and an indicator of further answers.

GET/v1/quora/questionx-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 question URL: https://www.quora.com/{slug} or https://www.quora.com/unanswered/{slug}. Answer URLs belong to /v1/quora/answer.

max 2048 chars

Examplehttps://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question

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.

question.idstring

Always included.

question.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

question.slugstring

Always included.

question.titlestring

Always included.

question.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

question.followerCountintegernullable

Always included.

question.isLockedboolean

Always included.

question.isDeletedboolean

Always included.

question.isCommentsDisabledboolean

Always included.

question.askerIdstringnullable

Numeric ID of the asker (logged-out pages carry no name), or null.

Topics attached to the question (id, name, url), in page order (at most 50).

up to 50 items

question.topics.idstring

Always included.

question.topics.namestring

Always included.

question.topics.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

up to 20 items

answers.idstring

Always included.

answers.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

Always included.

answers.question.idstring

Always included.

answers.question.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

answers.question.slugstring

Always included.

answers.question.titlestring

Always included.

answers.question.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

answers.isFromOtherQuestionboolean

Always included.

answers.content.textstring

Always included.

answers.content.imagesstring[]

Always included.

up to 50 items

answers.content.linksstring[]

Always included.

up to 100 items

Always included.

answers.author.idstringnullable

Always included.

answers.author.namestringnullable

Always included.

answers.author.handlestringnullable

Always included.

answers.author.urlstringnullable

Always included.

answers.author.avatarstringnullable

Always included.

answers.author.verifiedboolean

Always included.

answers.author.isAnonymousboolean

Always included.

answers.author.credentialstringnullable

Always included.

answers.createdAtstring

Always included.

answers.updatedAtstringnullable

Always included.

answers.upvotesintegernullable

Always included.

answers.viewsintegernullable

Always included.

answers.sharesintegernullable

Always included.

answers.commentsintegernullable

Always included.

answers.isMachineAnswerboolean

Always included.

answers.isCollapsedboolean

Always included.

hasMoreAnswersboolean

True when Quora holds further answers beyond the embedded ones; answers_truncated is then warned.

Questions Quora lists under the page: id, url, slug, title, answerCount, views and createdAt (at most 30).

up to 30 items

relatedQuestions.idstring

Always included.

relatedQuestions.urlstring

Always included.

absolute HTTPS URL

relatedQuestions.slugstring

Always included.

relatedQuestions.titlestring

Always included.

relatedQuestions.answerCountintegernullable

Always included.

relatedQuestions.viewsintegernullable

Always included.

relatedQuestions.createdAtstringnullable

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/question?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-an-example-question" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/quora/question?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-an-example-question",
  {
    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/question?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-an-example-question",
  {
    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/question",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question"
    },
    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/question?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-an-example-question", 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/question?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-is-an-example-question"))
            .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,
  "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,
    "followerCount": 12,
    "isLocked": false,
    "isDeleted": false,
    "isCommentsDisabled": false,
    "askerId": "700000001",
    "topics": [
      {
        "id": "1001",
        "name": "Example Topic",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/topic/Example-Topic"
      },
      {
        "id": "1002",
        "name": "Second Topic",
        "url": "https://www.quora.com/topic/Second-Topic"
      }
    ]
  },
  "answers": [
    {
      "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
    }
  ],
  "hasMoreAnswers": true,
  "relatedQuestions": [
    {
      "id": "900000003",
      "url": "https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Example-related-question",
      "slug": "Example-related-question",
      "title": "Example related question?",
      "answerCount": 0,
      "views": 66,
      "createdAt": "2022-10-09T02:48:26.081Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "900000004",
      "url": "https://www.quora.com/Second-example-related-question",
      "slug": "Second-example-related-question",
      "title": "Second example related question?",
      "answerCount": 4,
      "views": 7382,
      "createdAt": "2010-05-28T22:14:55.455Z"
    }
  ],
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-question",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "malformed_answers_omitted",
      "answers_truncated"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 26393,
    "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."
  }
}