Quick answer: Stack Overflow and every Stack Exchange site expose a v2.3 API at api.stackexchange.com , but it enforces a 300-request/day anonymous quota and returns paginated, gzip-encoded JSON with a backoff field you must honour or get banned. A stack overflow scraper wraps that API, handles the quota paging and backoff signalling, and writes one clean row per question — title, body, tags, score, view count, accepted answer, asker, and timestamps. The Apify Actor below does it for $0.0015 per