The Scenario
You're a social media manager who inherited a 10-subreddit launch campaign from someone who left the company last month. Launch day is in two weeks. You have the list of communities in column A of your Excel workbook. What you don't have is any institutional knowledge about what each subreddit allows — and Reddit subreddits have wildly different rules about self-promotion, link posts, disclosure requirements, and minimum account age. One wrong post and the thread gets removed and the account flagged. You need to see every rule, side by side, before you draft a single word of copy.
The bad version:
- Open each subreddit, click "About" or scroll to the sidebar to find the rules, read through 6-12 rules per community, paste them into a workbook one rule at a time
- Discover that r/entrepreneur has 11 rules with multiple sub-bullets while r/smallbusiness has 4 rules written in paragraph form — the formatting is inconsistent and your workbook looks like a mess
- Spend an hour formatting the rule table before you've actually read any of it
You have copy to write, a posting schedule to build, and a compliance checklist to document. Manually transcribing moderation rules is not the job.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the subreddit list in column A and through its built-in Reddit integration it can pull the posting rules for every community and write them into a structured reference table.
For each subreddit in column A, fetch the posting rules from Reddit and write each rule's title and description into new rows in columns B and C — include the subreddit name in column A for each rule row so I can filter by community
What You Get
- Column A: subreddit name repeated for each rule row so the table is filterable
- Column B: rule title (short name as Reddit displays it)
- Column C: full rule description text
- One row per rule, all subreddits in sequence — ready to filter by community name
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want a rule number column for reference
Your compliance doc needs each rule numbered within its subreddit for easy citation.
For each subreddit in column A, fetch the posting rules from Reddit and write subreddit name, rule number, rule title, and rule description into columns A through D — number rules sequentially within each subreddit starting at 1
Some subreddits in column A have no posting rules listed
Smaller communities sometimes have no formal rules. You want those rows flagged, not left empty.
For each subreddit in column A, fetch the posting rules from Reddit — if a subreddit has no rules listed, write the subreddit name in column A and "No rules listed" in column B — otherwise write subreddit name, rule number, rule title, and description into columns A through D
You want to flag rules that mention self-promotion or disclosure
Your compliance review only cares about rules that could affect promotional posts.
For each subreddit in column A, fetch the posting rules from Reddit and write subreddit name, rule number, rule title, and description into columns A through D — in column E add "Self-Promotion Flag" if the rule description mentions self-promotion, disclosure, or promotional content
Full compliance build: fetch rules, flag risks, and generate a posting checklist
For each subreddit in column A, fetch the posting rules — write subreddit name, rule number, rule title, description, and a self-promotion risk flag into columns A through E — then in column F generate a one-sentence posting guideline for each self-promotion-flagged rule explaining what the post needs to include to comply
One prompt builds the reference table and the checklist you'd otherwise assemble manually from 10 browser tabs.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a subreddit list in column A, ask it to pull the posting rules for each community into a structured compliance table. Related spoke: Discover Subreddits by Keyword. Back to the overview: Reddit + Excel.