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Minnow
Minnow

Reputation: 1811

Is there a way to download all the questions and answers from stack overflow?

I'm interested at looking at website usage, question types, and answers on stack overflow. Is there a way to download all of the content?

I've considered web scraping with beautiful soup or similar as an option, but thought that there are so many expert users the information might be readily available through an API.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2143

Answers (1)

Gilles Quénot
Gilles Quénot

Reputation: 185540

Yes, as you guess, there's a JSON API, check https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/09/stack-exchange-api-v2-1/

To get all the questions by example : https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions

It require a programmatic browser and a JSON parser. It's quite simple with , or .

Another solution proposed by fvu in the comments is to parse a full snapshot of any stackexchange site

Upvotes: 3

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