--- title: "Stack Overflow Monitoring API for Product Mentions | Rumoro" description: "Stack Overflow monitoring and an API for your product, SDK or competitors. New questions and answers checked every hour, sent to Slack or your agent." canonical: https://rumoro.dev/stack-overflow markdown: https://rumoro.dev/stack-overflow.md last-updated: 2026-10-15 --- # Stack Overflow Monitoring API for Product Mentions | Rumoro > Stack Overflow monitoring and an API for your product, SDK or competitors. New questions and answers checked every hour, sent to Slack or your agent. Source: https://rumoro.dev/stack-overflow [Rumoro](https://rumoro.dev/) Stack Overflow monitoring # Get alerts when Stack Overflow questions mention your product Every hour, Rumoro finds the new questions and answers on Stack Overflow that mention your product, its SDK or a competitor. It scores each one and sends those that need a reply to Slack, a webhook or your AI agent. [Start monitoring Stack Overflow](https://app.rumoro.dev/login?mode=signup) See keyword recipes $5.80 on us · no card · no subscription Connect through MCP - [Claude Code](https://rumoro.dev/claude) - [Codex](https://rumoro.dev/codex) - [Cursor](https://rumoro.dev/cursor) - [Grok](https://rumoro.dev/grok) - [Hermes](https://rumoro.dev/hermes) - [OpenClaw](https://rumoro.dev/openclaw) Illustrative questions and answers - **Every hour**: Each keyword is searched on its own, so a quiet name is checked as often as a busy one. - **Answers too**: An answer that names you arrives as its own mention, under the title of its question. - **Reputation**: Every author comes with their Stack Overflow reputation, so you know who's asking. - **Every link**: Links are read from the whole post, even when the excerpt leaves them out. How it works ## How Stack Overflow monitoring works in Rumoro Add a keyword in the dashboard or with one API call. Within the hour, new questions and answers start coming to you. `Lantern` \+ sdk + tracing − minecraft ### Name your product, SDK or API Your product, its client library, a competitor or the problem you solve. When the name is a common word, add words developers write next to it. ``` GET /search/excerpts q=Lantern → questions · answers ``` 1. 09:00 2. 10:00 3. 11:00 4. 12:00 ### Rumoro searches Stack Overflow every hour New questions and answers that name the keyword, each scored against how you describe your company. A new keyword starts with the newest 10 from the last 30 days. - Lantern SDK drops traces on Cloudflare Workers… **89** - Placing a lantern block with a Minecraft plugin… **3** - Answer: set Lantern’s sample rate before init… **81** ### The questions that need you reach you Each alert sets its own relevance bar and filters on sentiment and intent, such as questions, bug reports, comparisons, buying intent, churn or praise, then posts to Slack, Telegram, email, a webhook or your agent. For support and DevRel ## Answer the Stack Overflow questions about your product first Developers ask about your SDK on Stack Overflow before they open a ticket, and the first good answer is the one others copy. Hearing about each question within the hour lets your team answer from the docs instead of leaving it to a guess. - Questions about your API, answered while the asker is still stuck - Answers that recommend an old workaround, corrected before others follow them - Questions that weigh you against another tool, with the facts added 1. 09:12: Lantern SDK drops traces when running on Cloudflare Workers Question · answer from the docs 2. 10:40: Answer: pin Lantern to 2.x until the timeout is fixed Answer · 3.1 fixed it, say so 3. 13:05: Lantern or OpenTelemetry for a small Node service? Comparison · add the facts 4. 16:30: How do I set a sampling rate in Lantern's Python client? Question · link the guide Stack Overflow alerts ## Four recipes for Stack Overflow keyword alerts What to follow, what Rumoro searches and the alert your team gets. Pick one. Choose a keyword recipe Your SDK A competitor Your category A common word 1 Keyword `Rumoro` 2 Searched every hour ``` GET /search/excerpts q=Rumoro → questions · answers ``` 3 Alert when Question Bug report Developers name the tool they're stuck on in the title. Your product's name finds them, and the intent tells a how-to question from a bug. \# so-questions Rumoro · APP 🐞 Bug report about Rumoro Stack Overflow · Rumoro · 🔴 negative · bug report **Kai Lindqvist · 3,870 reputation** Rumoro Python client times out behind a corporate proxy 3 votes · 0 answers A user who can't get past their network setup. Point them to the proxy settings page in your docs. Open on Stack Overflow Open in Rumoro Interacted Mute Kai Lindqvist 1 Keyword `Mentio` 2 Searched every hour ``` GET /search/excerpts q=Mentio → questions · answers ``` 3 Alert when Comparison Churn A question that weighs two tools keeps getting read long after it's answered. Add the facts while the asker is still choosing. \# so-questions Rumoro · APP ⚖️ Comparison involving Mentio Stack Overflow · Mentio · ⚪ neutral · comparison **Lena Brandt · 2,915 reputation** Mentio or Rumoro for keyword alerts from a Python worker? 5 votes · 2 answers A developer choosing between two tools. A short answer with a working snippet helps them and every later reader. Open on Stack Overflow Open in Rumoro Interacted Mute Lena Brandt 1 Keyword `brand monitoring` Require any python api webhook 2 Searched every hour ``` GET /search/excerpts q=brand monitoring → questions · answers ``` 3 Alert when Relevance ≥ 60 Follow the problem you solve and require the words of a technical question. You'll see developers trying to build it before they choose a tool. \# so-questions Rumoro · APP 🔵 New mention of brand monitoring Stack Overflow · brand monitoring · ⚪ neutral · question **Jun Takeda · 512 reputation** Simplest way to get an alert when a new GitHub issue names my library? 1 vote · 0 answers A developer about to build what you sell. An answer with a short example fits here. Open on Stack Overflow Open in Rumoro Interacted Mute Jun Takeda 1 Keyword `Lantern` Require any sdk tracing node Exclude minecraft shader 2 Searched every hour ``` GET /search/excerpts q=Lantern → questions · answers ``` 3 Alert when Relevance ≥ 70 A name like Lantern also turns up in game and graphics questions. Require a word your users write. Excluded posts are never stored or billed. \# so-questions Rumoro · APP ❓ Question about Lantern Stack Overflow · Lantern · ⚪ neutral · question **Mira Kovač · 2,047 reputation** Lantern SDK drops traces when running on Cloudflare Workers 2 votes · 0 answers Your SDK misbehaving on an edge runtime. A docs link and the one-line fix answer it. Open on Stack Overflow Open in Rumoro Interacted Mute Mira Kovač Fictional people and posts. Rumoro searches Stack Overflow’s questions and answers for the keyword; required and excluded words are checked on every post. Search or monitor ## Stack Overflow search, the Stack Exchange API, or monitoring Stack Overflow's search and the Stack Exchange API both find posts that name you. Neither tells you when a new one appears. Here is what each leaves to you. Question Stack Overflow search Your own code on the Stack Exchange API Rumoro Who keeps checking Stack Overflow search You, each time you search Your own code on the Stack Exchange API Your code, on a schedule you host Rumoro Rumoro, every hour, for each keyword Finding posts Stack Overflow search Operators such as is:question and created: narrow what you see when you look Your own code on the Stack Exchange API/search/excerpts finds questions and answers, one keyword per call Rumoro Questions and answers found together and matched against the keyword Daily quota Stack Overflow search Not a concern while you browse Your own code on the Stack Exchange API 300 calls a day without a key and 10,000 with one, shared by everything on your address. An hourly search for one keyword spends at least 24 Rumoro Rumoro's own key, with each search paced to stay within it Throttling Stack Overflow search Not a concern while you browse Your own code on the Stack Exchange API A backoff value pauses a method, and over 30 requests a second gets an address cut off Rumoro A paused search waits, and the next run reads the window it missed Answers Stack Overflow search Listed with the questions Your own code on the Stack Exchange API Mixed into the same results, with titles and names HTML-encoded Rumoro Each answer its own mention under its question's title, decoded Links Stack Overflow search url:"yourapp.dev" lists posts that link to you when you search Your own code on the Stack Exchange API Inside each post's HTML, yours to parse Rumoro Every link in the post kept and filterable by your domain Noise Stack Overflow search Any post containing the word Your own code on the Stack Exchange API Any post containing the word Rumoro Scored 0–100 against your company, with muted authors kept out for good Alerts Stack Overflow search None Your own code on the Stack Exchange API You build the polling, the storage, the duplicate checks and the alerts Rumoro Slack, Telegram, email digests and signed webhooks Agents Stack Overflow search Copy and paste Your own code on the Stack Exchange API Your own MCP server on top Rumoro MCP with scored, source-linked mentions from every platform What you get ## What Rumoro keeps from each question and answer Enough to know what was asked and who asked it before you open the post, and plainly what isn't read. - **The post**: The question's title, an excerpt of the question or answer, the link, when it was posted, its score and, for a question, how many answers it has. - **The author**: The display name, avatar and reputation, linked to their profile, with every other question or answer they wrote about you. - **The links**: Every link in the whole question or answer, up to 20, including the ones the excerpt doesn't show. - **Not read**: Comments under a post, and the full text beyond the excerpt. An answer matches on its own words, never on its question's title alone. Developers write about your product beyond Stack Overflow too. Rumoro also follows [GitHub issues and pull requests](https://rumoro.dev/github), [Hacker News threads](https://rumoro.dev/hacker-news) and [DEV.to articles](https://rumoro.dev/dev) under the same keyword. Beyond alerts ## Stack Overflow tracking beyond the alert See how often developers ask about you, get to know the people asking and keep every keyword worth its cost. ### Your share of voice Track competing SDKs next to yours and see which one developers ask about more, week by week. ### The developers behind the questions Everyone who asks or answers about you becomes a person with their reputation, your tags, your notes and every post about you. ### Posts that link to you Links come from the whole post, not just the excerpt. Narrow the feed to your domain and you'll see which answers send developers to your docs. ### Questions, answers or both Follow both, or keep a keyword to new questions so the answers others write don't fill your feed. ### Keyword health See which keywords bring real questions and which mostly bring namesakes, with suggestions on what to exclude. ### Needs attention An hourly check for sudden spikes, a run of negative posts, noisy keywords or a channel that stopped delivering. ### Digests for quieter keywords One daily or weekly round-up in Slack, Telegram or email, for keywords where a few hours make no difference. ### Views, filters and export Filter by sentiment, intent or author, save the view for your team and download it as CSV. MCP, API, SDKs and CLI ## Stack Overflow questions about you, in your agent and your code Rumoro's MCP server gives Claude, Cursor or Codex the questions and answers that name you, scored and linked. Your agent drafts an answer from your docs for you to post. - [Claude Code](https://rumoro.dev/claude) - [Codex](https://rumoro.dev/codex) - [Cursor](https://rumoro.dev/cursor) - [Grok](https://rumoro.dev/grok) - [Hermes](https://rumoro.dev/hermes) - [OpenClaw](https://rumoro.dev/openclaw) [API reference ↗](https://api.rumoro.dev/v1/openapi.json) Questions on Stack Overflow with a relevance of at least 60. ``` curl --get 'https://api.rumoro.dev/v1/mentions' \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $RUMORO_API_KEY" \ --data-urlencode 'platform=stackoverflow' \ --data-urlencode 'minRelevance=60' \ --data-urlencode 'intent=question' ``` 200 Response · REST, SDKs and CLI ``` { "data": [ { "id": "5be0…", "keyword": { "term": "rumoro" }, "post": { "platform": "stackoverflow", "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80412345/rumoro-python-client-times-out-…", "title": "Rumoro Python client times out behind a corporate proxy", "text": "Rumoro Python client times out behind a corporate proxy\n\nEvery call hangs for 30 seconds, then raises ReadTimeout …", "links": ["https://docs.rumoro.dev/sdks/python"] }, "author": { "name": "Kai Lindqvist", "followers": 3870 }, "classification": { "intents": ["bug_report"], "relevance": 90, "sentiment": "negative", "note": "A user who can't get past their network setup. Point them to the proxy settings page in your docs." } } ], "nextCursor": null } ``` Coverage, alerts and cost ## Stack Overflow monitoring questions ### How do I get notified when someone asks about my product on Stack Overflow? Create a keyword with the name developers use for your product or its SDK. Rumoro looks for it on Stack Overflow every hour, rates every new question and answer for relevance, sentiment and intent, and delivers the ones that deserve a reply through the alert rules you set, in Slack, Telegram, email, a webhook or your agent. ### Does Rumoro use the Stack Exchange API? It does, through Rumoro's own registered key, which lifts the daily allowance from 300 calls to 10,000. Each search is paced to fit, and if Stack Exchange asks for a pause, the next run goes back over the hours it missed. ### Does Rumoro track answers, or only questions? It tracks both. When an answer mentions you, it arrives on its own with a link straight to it, labelled with the title of the question above it. So an answer giving outdated advice about your SDK is something you hear about, not something you find months later. ### How often does Rumoro check Stack Overflow? Every hour, for each keyword on its own. When you add a keyword, the 10 most recent matching posts from the past month come in straight away, rated the same way. ### Can I see which Stack Overflow posts link to my docs? Yes. Rumoro keeps every link in a question or answer, up to 20, read from the whole post rather than the excerpt. Filter your mentions by your domain to see the posts that point at your docs, your pricing or a tutorial about you. ### Does Rumoro show the author's reputation? Yes. Each question and answer comes with the author's display name, avatar, profile link and reputation, and everyone who writes about you becomes a person you can tag and keep notes on. ### How do I search Stack Overflow for questions about my product? Type your product's name into Stack Overflow's search, then narrow it with operators. is:question keeps questions, is:answer keeps answers, created: limits the dates and url:"yourapp.dev" finds posts that link to your site. That shows what's there when you look. Rumoro runs the search every hour and only sends what's relevant. ### Is there a Stack Overflow RSS feed for a keyword? Not for a keyword. Stack Overflow has a feed for each tag, such as stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/supabase, listing active questions in that tag. Questions about your product often carry no tag of yours, so Rumoro searches for the name itself, in questions and answers alike. ### Is there a Stack Overflow MCP server? Stack Overflow runs one for looking things up. It searches questions and reads posts by id once you sign in with a Stack Overflow account, and allows 100 calls a day per user. Rumoro's MCP server does a different job. It watches for your keywords and gives Claude, Cursor or Codex the new questions and answers about you, scored, next to every other platform. ### Why do support teams watch Stack Overflow? Because developers ask there before they open a ticket, and the first good answer is the one everyone copies. Support and developer relations teams answer from the docs, correct answers that recommend an old workaround, and learn which parts of the product keep confusing people. ### Does Rumoro read comments on Stack Overflow? No. It reads questions and answers. A product named only in a comment won't arrive, though the question or answer it sits under will if it names you too. ### Can I get Stack Overflow alerts in Slack? Yes. Connect Slack once and each alert rule posts matching questions and answers to a channel with the title, the author, the AI relevance score, a note on why it matters and buttons to open it, mark it handled or mute the author. ### Do I need a Stack Overflow account or an API key? No. Rumoro searches with its own key. You don't connect an account or register an app on Stack Apps, and nothing is posted in your name. ### Is there a free Stack Overflow monitoring tool? A new Rumoro account comes with $5.80 of credit and asks for no card, enough for your first keyword for a month and 100 mentions on top. After that it's $5 a keyword a month and $0.008 per match, with no subscription. ### How much does Stack Overflow monitoring cost? $5 per keyword a month, charged by the day, plus $0.008 per matched question or answer, with Stack Overflow included next to every other platform the keyword listens on. There's no subscription to cancel, and the first $5.80 is on us. Learn more ## More on Stack Overflow monitoring, MCP and the API - [**Claude Code MCP setup** Connect Claude Code, sign in once and ask about your Stack Overflow mentions in plain words.](https://rumoro.dev/claude) - [**API reference** Every endpoint and filter the Stack Overflow feed takes, in one OpenAPI document.](https://api.rumoro.dev/v1/openapi.json) - [**Pricing calculator** Estimate a month from your keywords and the mentions you expect.](https://rumoro.dev/pricing#calculator) - [**Instagram monitoring** The same alerts and agent access for Instagram posts and reels that name you.](https://rumoro.dev/instagram) All sources ## Stack Overflow is one of 16 sources Pick the sources for each keyword. Matches from all of them share one score, one feed and one set of alerts, API and MCP tools. - [**Reddit**](https://rumoro.dev/reddit) - [**X (Twitter)**](https://rumoro.dev/x) - [**Hacker News**](https://rumoro.dev/hacker-news) - [**GitHub**](https://rumoro.dev/github) - [**Bluesky**](https://rumoro.dev/bluesky) - [**LinkedIn**](https://rumoro.dev/linkedin) - [**TikTok**](https://rumoro.dev/tiktok) - [**Instagram**](https://rumoro.dev/instagram) - **Stack Overflow** You’re here - [**DEV**](https://rumoro.dev/dev) - [**YouTube**](https://rumoro.dev/youtube) - [**News**](https://rumoro.dev/news) - [**App Store**](https://rumoro.dev/app-store) - [**Google Play**](https://rumoro.dev/google-play) - [**Trustpilot**](https://rumoro.dev/trustpilot) - [**Google reviews**](https://rumoro.dev/google-reviews) ## Be the first answer under the question Your first keyword is on us. $5.80 of credit, no card. 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