Guide
How to export all your Reddit saved posts
Reddit only lists your newest ~1,000 saves. Your data export has all of them. Here is how to get it and what to do with it.
Request your data
- While logged in, open reddit.com/settings/data-request.
- Choose the GDPR option (or CCPA, depending on where you live) and the full time range.
- Submit. Reddit emails you a download link. It can take a few days; under GDPR it must arrive within 30 days.
What’s inside
The ZIP holds many files: messages, comments, votes, IP logs. For your saves, two matter: saved_posts.csv and saved_comments.csv. Each row is an id and a permalink. There is no title or text in them.
Turn it into something you can read and search
- Install Merkbar. When Reddit’s list runs out, it offers “Get all of them” and opens the data request for you.
- When the ZIP arrives, drop it on your Merkbar vault page. It’s read in your browser, and only the two saved files are opened.
- Merkbar fetches each save’s text and top comments from your own Reddit session, one every two seconds: about 35 minutes per 1,000 saves.
- Export everything to Markdown any time, or to Obsidian, Notion, PDF and EPUB with Pro.
Saves that were deleted before you archived them show up with their title from the link, marked as no longer available.