Quora Scraper API
Quora API: 7 endpoints for a question URL lookup, keyword search, written answers, Space posts, profiles, Spaces, and topics. Every live miss costs 5 credits. 100 free credits on signup, no card.
TL;DR
The Quora API by SocialCrawl returns Quora data as structured JSON: 7 endpoints behind one x-api-key, from 5 credits per call. It shares one unified schema with 54 other platforms, so the same client code works everywhere.
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Type a real handle, run a real request, see the JSON SocialCrawl returns. No signup, no key. Same response shape you get in production.
Returns Quora questions matching a keyword: title, URL, answer count, follower count, and publish time.
Use it to find questions on a topic. For the written answers themselves, call the answers endpoint with the same query.
Try the Quora Search API
See real data before writing a single line
What data does the Quora API return?
Every endpoint returns structured JSON in a unified envelope. Computed fields such as engagement rate and content category are included only where the endpoint supports them and the required source inputs are present.
Last updated September 2026
Maintained by the SocialCrawl team, reviewed September 2026
What Quora data can you get?
Every Quora endpoint uses the same response envelope, so one parser handles the whole platform. These are fields returned by current public responses, subject to each endpoint's documented cache window.
Fields you get back in a Quora response include:
- post.id
- post.url
- post.content
- post.author
- post.engagement
- post.flags
- post.published_at
- post.ext
- id
- content.text
- content.thumbnail_url
- content.duration_seconds
- content.media_urls
- author.username
- author.display_name
- author.avatar_url
- author.verified
- engagement.views
- engagement.likes
- engagement.comments
- engagement.shares
- engagement.saves
- published_at
- url
How to scrape Quora in 3 steps
No proxies, no headless browsers, no login sessions. Send one authenticated GET request and read structured JSON back.
- 1
Get a free API key
Create an account and copy your key from the dashboard. Signup includes 100 free credits, and no card is required.
- 2
Call the Search endpoint
Send a GET request with your key in the x-api-key header. Here is the full Quora Search request:
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \ "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/quora/search?query=learn+programming" - 3
Read the unified JSON
The response comes back in the shared SocialCrawl schema. Where the endpoint supports them and the required source inputs are present, fields such as engagement_rate and content_category are filled in too. Your client can rely on the shared envelope while treating enriched fields as optional.
Requirements and limits
Everything you need to know before your first Quora call.
- Authentication
- One API key, passed in the x-api-key request header. No OAuth flow, no app review, and no per-platform credentials to manage.
- Pagination
- List endpoints return a next_cursor and a has_more flag. Pass the cursor back to page through results, with the same contract on every platform.
- Credits
- Calls start at 5 credits and are deducted per request. Every account starts with 100 free credits, and credits never expire.
- Rate limits
- Two ceilings, both per API key and identical on every plan: 600 requests per minute and 50 simultaneous requests. Neither costs you a credit when it rejects a request, and past them your credit balance is the only throttle.
How much does the Quora API cost?
Simple credit-based pricing with no subscription. You pay per call, and the exact credit cost of every Quora endpoint is listed below.
| Endpoint | Credits per call |
|---|---|
| Search | 5 credits |
| Post | 5 credits |
| Answers | 5 credits |
| Posts | 5 credits |
| Profiles | 5 credits |
| Spaces | 5 credits |
| Topics | 5 credits |
Every account starts with 100 free credits, and no card is required.
At credit-pack pricing that works out to roughly £0.01 to £0.03 per call, and credits never expire.
How do you scrape social media data in seconds?
The fastest social media scraping API for developers. Scrape profiles, posts, comments, and analytics from 55 platforms covering 10B+ monthly active users.
One schema, every platform
Query 55 platforms with identical response structures. Write your integration once.
Computed fields, not just scraped
When an endpoint supports these metrics and the source provides the required inputs, the normalized record includes engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, and language. Ready to use.
See your data before you code
Visual Data Explorer. Paste any URL, get rich result cards, sortable tables, CSV export.
import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
}How does SocialCrawl handle 55 different platforms?
Social media scraping is hard. Schema normalization, authentication, rate limits, pagination. We handle all of it before your data arrives.
Write once, query them all.
55 platforms return 55 different JSON shapes. We normalize every response into one consistent structure.
Metrics ready before you ask.
Normalized records include supported metrics such as engagement rate, estimated reach, content category, and language when the required source inputs are available.
One cursor, every platform.
Every platform paginates differently. We give you one consistent cursor-based system.
Fresh when it matters. Free on repeat.
Cache misses fetch current public data. Identical requests are cached for 2 to 30 minutes by data type and cost 0 credits on a hit; send Cache-Control: no-cache for a billed refresh.
Auth, proxies, and rate limits, handled
Platform authentication, IP rotation, and rate limit management are all abstracted away. Just send a GET request.
What developers say
The unified schema saved us weeks of integration work. One parser handles every platform.
Our agents process social data from 55 platforms with zero platform-specific logic. One schema, end to end.
I paste an influencer's URL and get everything (followers, engagement rate, content categories) without touching code.
We switched from building our own scrapers. SocialCrawl handles the hard stuff, we focus on insights.
The computed fields alone (engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category) saved us an entire data pipeline.
How does SocialCrawl compare to DIY Quora scraping for Quora data?
Same Quora data, two very different paths. Auth, rate limits, schema, and cost, side by side.
| Feature | SocialCrawl | DIY Quora scraping |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | One x-api-key, sign up and call | Cloudflare challenge on every logged-out page |
| Setup | GET /v1/quora/search?query=learn+programming | Headless browser, cookies, and HTML parsers to build |
| Response schema | Unified PostList and AuthorList JSON shared with 54 other platforms | Raw HTML that breaks when Quora redesigns |
| Pricing | 5 credits per search; 100 free credits, no card | Proxy and compute costs plus ongoing engineering time |
Authentication
Setup
Response schema
Pricing
How much does Quora scraping cost?
SocialCrawl uses credit-based pricing: you pay per API call, and most Quora endpoints cost just a few credits. Every account starts with 100 free credits. No subscriptions, no compute units, no credit card required.
See pricingIs Quora scraping legal?
SocialCrawl returns publicly available Quora data. Courts have generally upheld scraping public data, most notably in hiQ v. LinkedIn, but compliance depends on your use case and jurisdiction. You are responsible for following applicable laws and platform terms.
Common Quora scraping terms
The phrases developers search for when they need Quora data, and what each one means with SocialCrawl.
- Quora scraper API
- A Quora scraper API returns Quora data as structured JSON without you running any scraping infrastructure. SocialCrawl handles the proxies, parsing, and format changes, so you call an endpoint and get clean fields back. Pricing starts at 5 credits per call.
- Quora data API
- A Quora data API is a programmatic way to read public Quora data on demand. SocialCrawl exposes 7 Quora endpoints behind one x-api-key, all sharing the same unified schema, so your integration never has to change per platform.
- scrape Quora
- To scrape Quora is to extract its public data programmatically instead of by hand. With SocialCrawl you scrape Quora by sending a single authenticated request, and the response is normalised into the same JSON shape used across every platform.
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