# Retrieve users history

**URL:** <https://forum.mattermost.com/t/retrieve-users-history/9569>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [April 22, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/retrieve-users-history/9569 "2020-04-22T11:49:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![leosimony](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/leosimony/32/3278_2.png) [@leosimony](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/leosimony)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/retrieve-users-history/9569/1 "2020-04-22T11:49:31Z")

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Has anyone had this requirement earlier and found a way to do this?

If I want to retrieve a users history of posts like,  
Users conversation with others - with date and time  
Others who had a conversation with that particular user - with date and time.

I can see the Posts table has these data but it’s like scattered. user id, posts id, channel id, etc. I can’t find a way to get this as organized.

In an organization, if a user resigns from the company. We would need to archive the user’s posts data and we would need some help on that.

Please help.

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**Author:** ![ahmaddanial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/ahmaddanial/32/2938_2.png) [@ahmaddanial](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/ahmaddanial)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/retrieve-users-history/9569/2 "2020-04-23T05:41:12Z")

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Hello, @leosimony

May I know if you can check out the [How do I extract posts from a Mattermost channel?](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/how-do-i-extract-posts-from-a-mattermost-channel/6285) post to see if the topic helps you to obtain the information you need? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![leosimony](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/leosimony/32/3278_2.png) [@leosimony](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/leosimony)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/retrieve-users-history/9569/3 "2020-04-23T07:26:37Z")

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Sure. Thank you for your reply. I will try with that and share the feedback.