Guide

How to export Reddit mentions to a spreadsheet

Updated 3 October 2026

Redwatcher is a Reddit monitoring tool. Tracks keywords, brand mentions and competitors across the subreddits you choose, scores every match for relevance, and alerts by email, Slack, Telegram or webhook around the clock. From $29/month per project.

Can you download Reddit mentions from Redwatcher as a file?

No. Redwatcher has no export button, no CSV download, no bulk export and no API, and it does not pull a subreddit's history. A subreddit is one of Reddit's communities, such as r/smallbusiness. A match is a new post or comment in one of your subreddits that contains one of your keywords, the words and phrases you tell Redwatcher to look for. Each match gets a relevance score from 0 to 100 for how closely the thread fits what you want to hear about, and you set the score a thread must reach to be sent. The inbox is the screen in the app that keeps every match with its score, including the ones that were not sent.

To get threads from Redwatcher into a sheet, you use the webhook. A webhook is a web address that one service sends data to when something happens, so another service can act on it. Redwatcher posts each thread that reaches the score you set to that address as one JSON object, a block of named fields such as title, score and url, and Zapier or Make, automation tools that start a workflow when data reaches an address they give you, turns the object into a spreadsheet row.

If you need a file of past Reddit data, you need a scraper. Reddit scraper vs Reddit monitoring explains when you need a scraper and when you need monitoring.

Step 1: Decide which threads become rows

Only the threads that reach the score you set are sent to the webhook, so only those become rows. Start at 70.

The second setting is on the Setup screen, the page in the app that holds a project's keywords, subreddits, score and alert channels. A project is one such set, and Redwatcher charges for each project separately. Its How often card has two choices. One alert per thread is the default and sends only the first match on a thread, so the sheet gets one row per thread. Every match sends each match that reaches the score you set, including several on the same thread, so a busy thread can add several rows.

Step 2: Create the receiving address in Zapier or Make

Redwatcher has no app of its own in Zapier or Make. Both receive its alerts through a webhook.

In Zapier. Zapier's help article Trigger Zaps from webhooks, read on 3 October 2026, says to create a Zap (Zapier's word for one workflow), choose Webhooks by Zapier as the app and Catch Hook as the event, then open the Test tab, where the webhook URL appears, and click Copy.

In Make. Make's Webhooks apps documentation, read on 3 October 2026, says to add the Custom webhook module (Make's word for one step in a workflow) to a scenario (Make's word for one workflow), click Add next to the Webhook dropdown, give the webhook a name under Webhook name, and click Save. Make then shows the address to copy.

Step 3: Paste the address into Redwatcher's Webhook card

Open the Alerts step when you create a project, or the Setup screen of a project that already exists, and choose the Webhook card. Paste the address into Endpoint, keep the Signing secret it shows, and save. Redwatcher signs every request with the secret, so an endpoint you build yourself can check that the request came from Redwatcher. Neither Zapier's Trigger Zaps from webhooks article nor Make's Webhooks documentation, both read on 3 October 2026, describes a signature check.

Send a test on the card confirms that the address works. Its body has a different shape from a real alert, with the fields nested under thread, so wait for the first real thread before you map columns. Then press Test trigger in Zapier's Test tab, or let Make detect the structure from that request. Make's documentation names a Detect new values button for reading the structure again.

Step 4: Map the fields to Google Sheets columns

Write a header row in the sheet first, then add the action that writes a row: Google Sheets with Create Spreadsheet Row in Zapier, read on zapier.com/apps/google-sheets/integrations/webhook on 3 October 2026, or Google Sheets with Add a Row in Make, read on make.com/en/integrations/google-sheets the same day. Choose the spreadsheet and the worksheet, and put each field in its column. Map these fields to these columns:

reasons and matched arrive as lists, so join them with a comma to fit one cell. Skip age, which is computed when the alert is sent and is out of date in a sheet. Reddit alerts to Zapier and Make lists every field.

Step 5: Turn the workflow on and sort the sheet

Turn the Zap or the scenario on. Make's Webhooks help page, read on 3 October 2026, says that by default a scenario executes immediately when Make receives data on a webhook. From then on, each thread that reaches the score you set adds a row.

Google Sheets can sort and filter the rows once they arrive. Its help article Sort & filter your data, read on 3 October 2026, says to select a range and click Data, then Create a filter, to filter, and to click Data, then Sort range, then Advanced range sorting options, to sort. Sorting by Score puts the threads that fit what you want to hear about most closely at the top, and a filter on Subreddit shows one community at a time.

How many rows to expect, and how to change that

How many rows arrive depends on how often your keywords come up in the subreddits you choose, and day one can be quiet, because only threads posted after the webhook is connected are sent. Redwatcher checks the subreddits you choose around the clock, multiple times every hour, and a check is one pass over those subreddits. Each new thread that reaches the score you set is sent to the webhook in the same check that found it.

If the sheet fills with threads you would not answer, raise the score or tighten a keyword that is too broad. A row with a score you disagree with has a link in its Correct a score column, where you say what was wrong and it becomes a rule.

Why rows go missing or look wrong

Rows go missing or look wrong for four reasons: the columns were mapped from the test, the receiver did not answer in time, the same thread was sent twice, or the score is set too high.

The columns were mapped from the test. A mapping made from the test writes empty cells, because the test's fields sit one level deeper than a real alert's. Map again from a real alert.

The receiver did not answer. Redwatcher waits 15 seconds for a success answer (an HTTP status in the 200s). If none comes and no other channel on the project took the thread, Redwatcher sends it again on its next check. If Slack, Telegram or email on the same project did take it, the thread counts as delivered and the webhook does not get it again, so that row is missing from the sheet.

A row appears twice. Every send of one thread carries the same id. Sort by the Key column to find the repeat, and delete one.

The score is set too high. At 90, only threads that fit what you want to hear about almost exactly are sent. Set it to 70 and watch the sheet for a day.

Is there a free way to export Reddit mentions to a spreadsheet?

No. Redwatcher has no free plan. Every project starts with a seven-day trial that takes no card, and after that it is paid: $29 a month per project for 25 keywords and 25 subreddits, $49 for 50 of each, and $89 for 100 of each. The webhook is on every plan, every plan includes every feature, and team members are free. Every competitor you track counts as one keyword. Prices from redwatcher.com/pricing, read on 3 October 2026.

Zapier's prices were read on zapier.com/pricing and Make's on make.com/en/pricing, both on 3 October 2026. Make counts each module action, like adding a Google Sheet row, as one credit.

Pick Make for the lower monthly fee, with Core at $9 a month, and Zapier if you already pay for its Professional plan or above, where webhooks are included.

How this guide was checked

Redwatcher wrote this guide about its own product. The webhook fields come from the code that builds the payload, and the score setting, the How often card and the retry behaviour come from the app that customers use today. On 3 October 2026 we read Zapier's Trigger Zaps from webhooks help article, its Google Sheets and Webhooks integrations page and its pricing page, Make's Webhooks help page, its Webhooks apps documentation, its Google Sheets integrations page and its pricing page, and Google's Sort & filter your data help article. We did not run a Zap or a Make scenario for this guide and did not buy either plan, so the steps in Zapier, Make and Google Sheets are their own help pages' words. The screenshots are Redwatcher's own screens with example data.

Exporting Reddit mentions to a spreadsheet: questions people ask

Can I export Reddit mentions from Redwatcher as a CSV?

Redwatcher has no CSV download, no bulk export and no API. Mentions leave Redwatcher one thread at a time, through the webhook: each thread that reaches the score you set is posted as one JSON object, and Zapier or Make adds it to Google Sheets as a row. The inbox keeps every match with its score on screen, including the ones that were not sent.

Can I get older Reddit mentions into the spreadsheet?

Redwatcher does not pull a subreddit's history. It reads the subreddits you choose from the day you set the project up, and shows up to three threads from the seven days before in a Before you started block in the app, which are not sent. The sheet fills from the day the webhook is connected. A file of past Reddit data needs a scraper.

Which columns does each Reddit mention row carry?

Each row can carry when the thread was posted, the subreddit, whether it is a post or a comment, the title, the score from 0 to 100, the reasons for the score, the keywords that matched, the link on www.reddit.com, the author, a link to correct a wrong score and Redwatcher's number for the thread. The reasons and the matched keywords arrive as lists, so join them with a comma for one cell.

Can Reddit mentions go into Google Sheets without Zapier or Make?

Redwatcher's webhook posts to any endpoint that accepts a POST with a JSON body, on https:// and a public host, answering with a success status in the 200s within 15 seconds. An endpoint you write yourself can add the row to the sheet and can also check the signature against your signing secret. Redwatcher itself has no direct Google Sheets connection.

Why does a busy Reddit thread add only one row?

Redwatcher sends one alert per thread by default, so the first match on a thread that reaches the score you set becomes a row and later matches on that thread stay in the inbox. The How often card on the Setup screen has a second choice, Every match, which sends each match that reaches the score you set, so a busy thread can add several rows.

How much does a Reddit mentions spreadsheet cost?

Redwatcher is $29 a month per project for 25 keywords and 25 subreddits, with a seven-day trial, no card, and the webhook is on every plan. Zapier's webhooks need Professional, $29.99 a month paid monthly or $19.99 paid yearly. Make's Free plan is $0 with 1,000 credits a month, though Make does not say whether Free includes the Custom webhook, and Core is $9 a month for 10,000 credits. Each module action, like adding a Google Sheet row, counts as one credit. Prices read on 3 October 2026.

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