Stack Exchange Questions Monitor

Watch Stack Overflow (and any Stack Exchange site) tags for new questions, score deltas, view-count surges, and is_answered status flips. Maps to "Q&A activity monitoring / dev forum lead-gen" briefs.

Built 2026-05-03 as Demo #23.

Run

. ~/freelance/.venv/bin/activate
cd ~/freelance/portfolio_demos/stackexchange_questions_monitor
export STACKEXCHANGE_KEY=...   # optional — bumps daily quota 10K → 30K
python monitor.py --reset
python monitor.py --once

Result

• 63 questions tracked across 3 tags (python + anthropic + langchain) ✅
• Idempotent re-run, 4 simulated view-count deltas detected ✅
• Use cases: consultants answering fast for rep/lead-gen, library maintainers tracking their tag, support teams ✅