Quora Questions Feed - is it possible?

Anyone know whether it's possible to create alerts to keywords in new Quora questions?
The idea is to use an RSS feed to trigger an email alert using IFTTT - but first you need a working RSS feed. And it looks like RSS doesn't work any more for Quora.

Notifier.so can do this but we're talking $49 per month payable annually, which is a big hole to climb out of with an unproven idea. (Unless someone knows of a GB for Notifer?)

RhebaReaux said:

Anyone know whether it's possible to create alerts to keywords in new Quora questions?
The idea is to use an RSS feed to trigger an email alert using IFTTT - but first you need a working RSS feed. And it looks like RSS doesn't work any more for Quora.

Notifier.so can do this but we're talking $49 per month payable annually, which is a big hole to climb out of with an unproven idea. (Unless someone knows of a GB for Notifer?)

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Notifier.so crawls SERPs to find out mentions.

You can do that by using a cron job that calls a SERP api to make a google search like "<your keyword> site:quora.com" . You can use those results to create an IFTTT trigger or whatever to notify you.

Ashk881 said:

Notifier.so crawls SERPs to find out mentions.

You can do that by using a cron job that calls a SERP api to make a google search like "<your keyword> site:quora.com" . You can use those results to create an IFTTT trigger or whatever to notify you.

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Thanks - I didn't know that's how Notifier works. So maybe Google alerts would work? I'll try that as well.

Ashk881 said:

Notifier.so crawls SERPs to find out mentions.

You can do that by using a cron job that calls a SERP api to make a google search like "<your keyword> site:quora.com" . You can use those results to create an IFTTT trigger or whatever to notify you.

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Thanks for this tip. I'm absolutely not a programmer, but I made some progress with Google CSE and Google APIs in a fumbly kind of way

A) I made a Google custom search engine for Quora
b) I went to Google Cloud and created a Custom Search API and now I have a GET request that looks like this:


https://www.googleapis.com/customse...8CH9EGRb5Tn4XXXXXXXXXXXX&cx=48ac9d4bc25d9abcd&q=resume advice&dateRestrict=d2

(I've removed the details of the key and the CSE cx parameter for obvious reasons)
So now I have query that works and provides a list of pages from Quora featuring the search query "resume advice" that are recent.

So can somone please tell me whether I can use this like an RSS feed so that I can receive email alerts when new items are added? I tried with IFTTT but it wasn't recognised as a valid feed.

Thanks