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Comments on How can software track [1] how many subscribers to subreddits, [2] if subreddit is private, [3] if submissions are restricted?

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How can software track [1] how many subscribers to subreddits, [2] if subreddit is private, [3] if submissions are restricted?

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Master lists like 82 food subreddits and 128 tech subreddits don't indicate

  1. each's subscribers.

  2. if it's private. Sometimes moderators can make the sub private for several days, to clean it up.

  3. if the moderators restricted the submission.

Indubitably, I don't have time to check 200 subreddits every week. I'm thinking of copying and pasting all 200 subreddits in an Excel spreadsheet, then making one column each for 1-3 above. But how do I command Excel to check these?

I don't even know if Excel can't do this. If it can't, how do I accomplish?

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Alexei‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

In most cases, the canonical way to fetch data from an external application is though its API. Reddit seems to expose one.

r~~‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Excel is very probably a poor choice for this task. Can you add some more detail about why you want this, so that we could recommend a better approach? Is this for personal use, are you maintaining one of these lists, are you trying to publish a tool for other list maintainers to use, etc.?

TextKit‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@r~~ Yes, for personal use. If a sub increases or decreases in population, then I'll join and unsubscribe respectively.