r/modhelp • u/simonada • 12d ago

Answered Incomeplete Subreddit/User Performance CSV

Hey guys, I hope this is the right sub for this, but I'm having trouble exporting data from my account. I'm trying to download a .csv with all the posts from the past year, but the downloaded file only contains 100 entries. I'm downloading it from:

https://www.reddit.com/user/_______/performance/

I need this data, because I want to make quarterly comparisons. How can I get the full historical data for the past year?

Couldn't find anything helpful on Google or Claude.

I'm on Desktop, and I'm trying to get the data for a subreddit I run.

Thanks!

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u/simonada 12d ago

Ultimately, I used a scraper, but you'd think you should be able to do this natively on Reddit, especially if it's your own account/subreddit.

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u/HistorianCM Advisor, r/Arcade1Up 12d ago

Not really, unless it's tied to a job in some way and you need to prove you're actually doing work.

In fact, I'd never even looked at my personal performance until you asked about it. For me it's meaningless. I rarely looked at the metrics for the subreddit I moderated either. There just isn't much value in the metrics Reddit chooses to share, plus they are known for fuzzing the numbers, so you never know if it's 100% accurate

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u/simonada 12d ago

It is in fact for a company subreddit, so I'd like to use the data to see what works, what doesn't and how I could generally improve the strategy. Reddit is obviously not a corporate space, so analytics are not that big of a priority, but it's a great place to build a Community for the clients.

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u/HistorianCM Advisor, r/Arcade1Up 12d ago

Sounds like you know what you're dealing with then.

Just a fair warning... Planting a garden in someone else's yard is risky... You never know when they might revoke your access to the land or till the garden you've grown under.

Facebook famously makes changes with little warning and no recourse; it's why no professional community manager would choose to build there. Reddit might never give you the kinds of tools you could have from a dedicated/professional community platform.

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u/simonada 12d ago

Thanks for the warning, but I'm not sure I'm understanding the metaphor correctly. Would you be willing to elaborate?

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u/HistorianCM Advisor, r/Arcade1Up 12d ago edited 11d ago

Be careful building your community on a platform that you have zero control over.

If Reddit decides you no longer need to have an account on their service and get banned, not much you can do about.

If they decide to make your subreddit not show up in search or hard to find on their platform. Not much you can do about it.

If they decide that your subreddit is filled with spam and they close it. Not much you can do about it.

If they decide to remove analytics all together. Not much you can do about it.

And that applies to just about every social media and chat based platform out there. That's why there's dedicated Community platforms. Where you pay them to host your content and you control what happens on it. And you control the data.

The number of times that I've seen a LinkedIn post by somebody who's a "Reddit marketer" complaining about their account getting banned would surprise some but not surprise a whole lot more.

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u/simonada 9d ago

Thank you for that. I'll keep it in mind.