Exporting Analytics Data to CSV

Why export

StretchAnalytics answers most questions inside the app, but sometimes you need the raw rows — to hand to a colleague, load into a spreadsheet, or feed another tool. The Export feature produces a clean CSV of your event stream for a chosen window and event type, scoped to your organization.

What's in the file

Each exported CSV includes these columns:

• event_key
• event_name
• brand
• site
• page_path
• cta_name
• form_name
• messenger_lane
• created_at

Values are properly CSV-escaped, so commas, quotes, and line breaks in fields won't corrupt the file. The export returns a suggested filename like stretchanalytics-events-YYYY-MM-DD.csv, the row count, and the CSV content.

The inputs

• from / to — the date window to export.
• event_name — optional; limit the export to a single event type.

Exports are capped at 5,000 rows per file, most recent first, so a single export stays fast and manageable.

Step-by-step: export a week of submissions

1. Open the Export action in StretchAnalytics.
2. Set from and to to the week you want.
3. Set event_name to form_submission to export just submissions.
4. Run the export and download the CSV.
5. Open it in your spreadsheet tool of choice.

Step-by-step: export everything in a window

1. Open Export.
2. Set your from/to window.
3. Leave event_name empty to include all event types.
4. Run and download.

Step-by-step: automate it

If you need the same export regularly, don't do it by hand — set up a scheduled email export instead (see Scheduling Email Exports) to have a CSV delivered to recipients on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence.

Example

At month-end, a RevOps analyst exports all form_submission events for the month, opens the CSV, and pivots by site and page_path to attribute leads to campaigns. Because the file is already scoped to her organization and cleanly escaped, it loads without a single formatting fix.

Tips

• Narrow the window to stay under the 5,000-row cap; export month-by-month rather than a whole year at once.
• Filter by event_name when you only need one signal — smaller files are easier to work with.
• The file is most-recent-first; sort by created_at in your spreadsheet if you want chronological order.
• For recurring needs, prefer a scheduled email export over manual downloads.

Troubleshooting

My export is empty. No matching events fell in the window. Widen the date range or remove the event_name filter and try again.

I expected more rows. Exports cap at 5,000 rows. Split a large pull into several smaller windows.

Special characters look odd in my spreadsheet. The CSV is UTF-8 and properly escaped; make sure your spreadsheet tool imports it as UTF-8 to render accented characters correctly.