Stack Overflow Question Reader

Uses the public Stack Exchange API. Anonymous usage is rate-limited to ~300 requests per IP per day.

Steps

1. Extract the question ID

From a URL like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345678/some-slug, the ID is 12345678.

2. Fetch the question body

curl -s --compressed \
  "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/questions/{id}?site=stackoverflow&filter=withbody"

3. Fetch the answers