Use this guide to connect Reddit Public Data to Supermetrics.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.
Before you begin
Reddit Public Data allows you to collect publicly available data about Reddit posts. It doesn't require you to log in to a specific account.
Query types
- Reddit user data: Fetches the user metadata for an account.
- Reddit subreddit data: Fetches a subreddit's metadata.
- Reddit posts: Fetches post details for a keyword.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create query.
- Under Data source, select Reddit Public Data.
- Click Start.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type, and then the keywords, usernames, or other data you want to query.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Reddit Public Data and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Reddit Public Data requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Select your query type, and then the keywords, usernames, or other data you want to query.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
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Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Reddit Public Data.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type, and then the keywords, usernames, or other data you want to query.
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