Automate Quora

What I mean by automating Quora

Automating Quora means a bot does the reading and writing you would otherwise do by hand in the browser. Scrolling through a question and capturing every answer. Watching a topic feed for posts that mention your competitors or your product. Pulling the answers a specific writer has posted. Or, less often, posting an answer of your own on a schedule from a sheet of drafts.

Quora doesn't publish a useful API. The browser is the only path, and an infinite-scroll feed plus a login gate is exactly the shape a browser bot handles well.

Reading the firehose isn't already solved

Quora has no developer API for reading answers or feeds. There's the Quora Partner Program for monetisation and Quora Ads, but neither lets you pull content. So if you want to track a topic, monitor a competitor, or collect answers for research, a browser bot is the only path that scales beyond manual copy-paste.

Posting is easier — you can post in a normal Chrome session — but doing it from a sheet, on a schedule, in a way that respects the per-day limits, is what makes a bot worth it.

Who this is for

This is for marketing teams tracking what's being said about a product on Quora. Researchers pulling answer data for a paper. SEO teams monitoring questions in their niche. Content teams scheduling answers from a content calendar. And for the developer who wants Quora data wired into a research pipeline.

How I'd approach it

Start by deciding read or write. They're different shapes.

For reading: pick the URL pattern you'll iterate over (question pages, topic feeds, writer profiles) and the data you want from each (answer text, author, upvote count, posted date). Build a step that scrolls until "Show more" stops appearing, then scrape the answers. Loop the URLs from a sheet.

For writing: load a saved session, paste the draft from your sheet, click Submit, then wait long enough that you're not posting at machine speed. Quora is sharp on machine-pattern detection.

Automate Quora from a description

Describe the work in plain words in the Chrome extension and it builds the steps for you. Tell it the URL pattern and what to capture. Explore no-code.

Automate Quora in code

Build with code. If you would rather script it yourself, this is the path. Explore code

import { chromium } from "playwright";

const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
  `wss://cdp-lb.axiom.ai/?token=${process.env.AXIOM_API_KEY}`
);

try {
  const context = browser.contexts()[0];
  const page = context.pages()[0] ?? await context.newPage();

  // Each question URL would come from your Google Sheet
  const questions = [
    "https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-no-code-tool",
    "https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-automate-web-scraping",
  ];

  const out = [];
  for (const url of questions) {
    await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });

    // Scroll until Quora stops loading more answers
    let prev = 0;
    for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
      await page.mouse.wheel(0, 4000);
      await page.waitForTimeout(800);
      const count = await page.locator('[class*="Answer"]').count();
      if (count === prev) break;
      prev = count;
    }

    const answers = await page.locator('[class*="Answer"]').evaluateAll((els) =>
      els.map((el) => ({
        text: el.querySelector('[class*="qu-userSelect"]')?.textContent ?? "",
        author: el.querySelector('a[href*="/profile/"]')?.textContent ?? "",
      })),
    );
    out.push({ url, count: answers.length, answers });
  }
  console.log(JSON.stringify(out, null, 2));
} finally {
  await browser.close();
}

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Build with a Claude skill

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Add the Claude skill and describe the Quora work. It builds the bot for you, no-code or code, handling the scroll, the scrape, and the column mapping.

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What can you automate on Quora?

Most of the click and scroll work. A couple of cases worth knowing first.

What I'd watch out for

Quora is a fine site for a bot but a few things will bite if you don't plan for them.

The class names shift

Quora's CSS class names are auto-generated and change every few months. Match on stable signals (the link to a profile, an aria attribute, the upvote button's accessible name) rather than the class.

Infinite scroll never ends

The feed will load forever if you let it. Set a "no new answers after N scrolls" exit so the bot stops on its own.

Watch posting cadence

A bot posting answers needs spacing. One every few hours is fine; one every minute is account-suicide. The fastest way to lose an account is to look like a machine.

Sign-in state matters

A logged-out scrape sees a stripped-down version. If you want full answer text and metadata, run signed-in. Capture the session cookies once and load them into the run.