Find Quora questions worth answering in your niche

1. Click the Answer icon, then Requests, to open the Answer Requests page with every question people asked you to answer.
2. Quora sends a separate notification only for high-priority requests; the rest arrive bundled in one notification that you have to open to see each request.
3. Search your niche in the Quora search bar and open each question page to count the answers and read the top ones.
4. Write from the question page with the Answer button, or from the Write Answer page, your feed and topic pages.
5. The same checks repeat every week: open the question, judge the existing answers, recall whether you already wrote one. A good question with two weak answers is easy to miss among dozens of off-topic requests.

Every Monday, go through my Quora answer requests and search "bookkeeping for freelancers", drop what I already answered, and give me the 10 questions where my answer would add the most.

1. 01

   Collect both sources

   The agent reads your requests with list_answer_requests, then runs search_questions once per phrase you gave it. A question found in both places is kept once and marked as requested, because someone asked for you by name.

2. 02

   Remove what you already covered

   list_my_answers is paged back through your history and matched by question URL. Anything you answered before leaves the shortlist, so you are never sent back to a question you closed months ago.

3. 03

   Judge the existing answers

   For each remaining question the agent opens get_question with a handful of top answers. No answers, or short answers that skip the how, rank high. A long, well-upvoted answer that already makes your point pushes the question down.

4. 04

   Drop off-topic requests with a reason

   Requests outside the topics you named are dropped and grouped by sender. A sender who keeps sending the same kind of question is pointed out, so you can mute that topic or that person in Quora.

5. 05

   Hand over a short list, nothing posted

   Each pick comes with why it made the cut and the angle the current answers miss. The agent does not answer or dismiss anything in this job; writing stays with you or with the answer job.

Shortlist for "bookkeeping for freelancers", week of 12 Oct 2026 (14 requests and 40 search results checked).
1. How do freelancers track expenses for taxes? Requested by Sam Ortiz. 3 answers; the top one names no method.
2. Should a freelancer use cash or accrual accounting? No answers yet.
3. Do I need bookkeeping software as a freelancer? 1 answer that names a tool with no reasons.
Skipped 6 questions you already answered, including "Is QuickBooks worth it for a solo freelancer?".
Skipped 9 off-topic requests; 4 about crypto trading came from the same sender.

• Quora lets anyone send an answer request to anyone, so the Answer Requests page can mix questions in your field with unrelated ones.
• Quora blocks answer requests from people you muted or blocked and sends none for questions tagged with topics you muted, so muting a topic shrinks the Requests page at the source.
• Quora treats requests from people you follow as high priority and notifies you of each one separately, while all other requests are bundled into one notification.
• Quora weighs the topics listed in the Knows About section of your profile when ranking requests, so an outdated Knows About list changes which requests Quora treats as high priority.
• Quora can merge a question into another that asks the same thing, so two near-identical search results may end up on a single question page.

Every tool here only reads, so it can run weekly from n8n, Make, Zapier or cron without waiting for your OK.

Sources: Quora Help: What does "Request Answers" mean and how does it work? · Quora Help: How do I write an answer on Quora? · Quora Help: Question and Answer Policies

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/quora/search_questions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"bookkeeping for freelancers","limit":20}'

{
  "questions": [
    {
      "question": "How do freelancers track expenses for taxes?",
      "question_url": "https://www.quora.com/How-do-freelancers-track-expenses-for-taxes",
      "answers": 3
    },
    {
      "question": "Do I need bookkeeping software as a freelancer?",
      "question_url": "https://www.quora.com/Do-I-need-bookkeeping-software-as-a-freelancer",
      "answers": 1
    }
  ]
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is quora_search_questions. Example data.

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