Accessing data from Quora
Quora is a popular question and answer website where questions are asked, answered, and managed by the community members and the entire operations is gamified. The interesting answers can get some points and the users could also shell out some points to get some of their questions answered by certain people.
There are ways to get the data from Quora, but there is an unofficial API which returns the data in the JSON format. It is actually a set of URLs that will provide us with the required information. These URLs will also work in browsers. Once we get the data in the JSON format, we can convert it into the data frame format later.
Let's see some of the URLs and ways to use it in R. The API's base URL is http://quora.christopher.su. To the base URL, we need to add the following to get the relevant data:
/users/<user>/activity/answers/users/<user>/activity/user_follows/users/<user>/activity/want_answers/users/<user>/activity/upvotes...
