# Stack Overflow Question
Returns one Stack Overflow question by id: title, link, tags, score, counts, accepted answer id, closed reason, bounty, ISO 8601 dates, owner, HTML body, plain-text body and license. An unknown id answers 404 and is never charged. Costs 1 credit per successful request.
- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/stackoverflow-api/stackoverflow_question](https://scrappa.co/docs/stackoverflow-api/stackoverflow_question)
- **API group:** Stack Overflow API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/stackoverflow/question`
## Authentication
Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.
## Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `question_id` | integer | Yes | Stack Overflow question id, e.g. 11227809. |
## Example request
```bash
#!/bin/bash
curl -X GET \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
"https://scrappa.co/api/stackoverflow/question?question_id=11227809"
```
## Example response
```json
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"question_id": 11227809,
"title": "Why is conditional processing of a sorted array faster than of an unsorted array?",
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-conditional-processing-of-a-sorted-array-faster-than-of-an-unsorted-array",
"tags": [
"java",
"c++"
],
"score": 27548,
"view_count": 2015920,
"answer_count": 25,
"comment_count": 14,
"is_answered": true,
"accepted_answer_id": 11227902,
"created_at": "2012-06-27T13:51:36Z",
"last_activity_at": "2026-09-04T02:36:50Z",
"last_edited_at": "2026-04-08T05:35:32Z",
"owner": {
"user_id": 87234,
"display_name": "GManNickG",
"reputation": 507437,
"user_type": "registered",
"accept_rate": 100,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/87234/gmannickg",
"profile_image": "https://i.sstatic.net/FkjBe.png?s=256"
},
"body": "In this C++ code, sorting the data (before the timed region) makes the primary loop ~6x faster:
\n\n#include \n#include