Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is source-backed today. It is best used through /research when you want answer discovery instead of one known question page.
Example
Source-filtered Stack Overflow research
```bash
curl https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/research \
-X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer fc_live_xxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"query": "playwright wait_for_selector timeout",
"sources": ["stackoverflow"],
"limit": 10
}'
```
```ts
const results = await fc.research({
query: "playwright wait_for_selector timeout",
sources: ["stackoverflow"],
limit: 10,
});
console.log(results.all.map((item) => item.url));
```
```python
results = fc.research(
"playwright wait_for_selector timeout",
sources=["stackoverflow"],
limit=10,
)
print([item.url for item in results.all])
```
```json
{
"tool": "faircrawl_research",
"arguments": {
"query": "playwright wait_for_selector timeout",
"sources": ["stackoverflow"],
"limit": 10
}
}
```
Notes
- use Stack Overflow for implementation and troubleshooting research
- for one known question URL,
/web/scrapestays cheaper and simpler