The Scenario
You're a UX researcher at a software company, and a product manager just forwarded you a Reddit thread with 500+ comments about your product category. She wants you to tag pain points and feature requests so the team can prioritize the next sprint. The thread is a goldmine. Reading 500 comments in the browser, taking notes, and organizing them by theme could take you the better part of a full day.
The bad version:
- Open the Reddit thread, start reading comments from the top, paste each relevant one into a sheet row with your own tags
- Lose your place when a nested reply chain pushes the page layout around and you accidentally skip 30 comments
- Realize the sort defaulted to "Best" not "New" and you've been reading a biased sample — start over with the full comment list
This kind of work is supposed to inform strategy, not consume the researcher's entire week.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, understands the context, and through its built-in Reddit integration it can extract all comments from a thread and write them into columns you specify.
Get all top-level comments from the Reddit post at the URL in cell A1 and write comment text, author, score, and timestamp into columns B through E — skip deleted or removed comments
What You Get
- Columns B through E: full comment body, author username, current upvote score, and UTC timestamp of the comment
- Deleted and removed comments excluded
- One row per comment, ready to sort or filter by score
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want nested replies included, not just top-level comments
The most useful insights are sometimes buried two or three levels deep in a thread.
Fetch all comments from the Reddit post URL in cell A1 — include top-level comments and their direct replies — write comment text, author, score, depth level (0 for top, 1 for reply), and parent author into columns B through F
The post URL isn't in the sheet yet — you only have a post ID
You copied a Reddit post ID from a different tool and it's sitting in cell A1 without the full URL.
Fetch all comments from the Reddit post with ID in cell A1 and write comment body, author, score, and timestamp into columns B through E — skip any comment marked as deleted or removed
You want comments pre-tagged before they land in the sheet
Instead of reading every comment manually to find pain points, you want the tagging done during the pull.
Get all top-level comments from the Reddit post at the URL in cell A1 — classify each comment as "Pain Point", "Feature Request", "Praise", or "Other" based on the comment text — write comment body, author, score, classification, and timestamp into columns B through F
Full research pipeline: extract, classify, and summarize top themes in one go
Fetch all top-level comments from the Reddit post URL in cell A1, classify each as Pain Point, Feature Request, Praise, or Other, flag any comment with a score above 50 as "High Signal," then write comment text, author, score, classification, signal flag, and timestamp into columns B through G — and add a summary row at the top counting how many comments fell into each classification
One prompt handles the extraction and the synthesis you'd otherwise do separately.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a Reddit post URL in cell A1, then ask it to pull and tag the full comment tree. Related spoke: Identify Top Commenters on a Reddit Post. Back to the overview: Reddit + Google Sheets.