# Help: Export CSV and TXT FAILURE (502 Bad Gateway) **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [November 12, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971 "2025-11-12T13:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wolfinwool/32/5557_2.png) [@wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/u/wolfinwool)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/1 "2025-11-12T13:12:51Z")
I download my blogs from write.as every month. On occasion I’ve gotten bad gateway errors on the CSV version, but can always generally get one or the other (txt/csv), but this morning, both are erroring out. I suspect it may be related to the size of my content, but that is a guess. Please advise. I can still get json and prettified, but prefer TXT and CSV as it allows me text level searches and copy-pastes. I’m too lazy to learn what to do with JSON and Prettified, but like having them just in case. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/2 "2025-11-18T01:03:16Z")
Hmm, yeah this might happen if you have a ton of posts. For now, I’d recommend trying at different times of day (when load on the server might not be as high), but I’ll also take a look into how we might be able to optimize this. ---
**Author:** ![wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wolfinwool/32/5557_2.png) [@wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/u/wolfinwool)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/3 "2025-11-29T07:52:39Z")
Oy! I hope we can find a solution. I can no longer export JSon or Prettified. ANd I’ve tried early morning, midday, midnight, late evening… essentially every quarter of the 24 hour period over many days through several week.s Tonight, after a failed export attempt, I was presented with a ‘a previous edit exists’ dialog on a 54,000 post. Confused I ignored it and clicked publish and lost 45,000 words. Since my last back up is from May, and that 54k work was a single month’s effort (November), I’m kind of f\*$ked. Please advise. I’m VERY concerned that I’m well on my way to publishing a million words here on Write.as and may no longer be able to reliably back them up and then possibly lose tens of thousands of hours of work. ---
**Author:** ![wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wolfinwool/32/5557_2.png) [@wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/u/wolfinwool)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/4 "2025-11-29T07:55:00Z")
And to your point @matt , I DO have ‘tons of posts’ I publish between 80,000 and 150,000 words a month on write.as. Please advise if this is the wrong platform for that volume. ---
**Author:** ![wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wolfinwool/32/5557_2.png) [@wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/u/wolfinwool)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/5 "2025-12-27T12:38:15Z")
This did NOT solve the issue. I clicked th button by accident ---
**Author:** ![wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wolfinwool/32/5557_2.png) [@wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/u/wolfinwool)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/6 "2025-12-27T12:39:43Z")
HI @matt Just dropping by to mention that I’m still unable to backup my work. I was able to get JSON and PRettified downloaded this morning, but when I parse the files, it only has part of my dataset. No posts for 3 of my 4 blogs. :-/ ---
**Author:** ![wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/wolfinwool/32/5557_2.png) [@wolfinwool](https://discuss.write.as/u/wolfinwool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/7 "2026-06-17T23:19:26Z")
[@support](https://discuss.write.as/groups/support) please advise. It’s been more than 6 months and I have thousands of entries wtihout backup. Please. It is a very large cache of data. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/help-export-csv-and-txt-failure-502-bad-gateway/19971/8 "2026-07-10T21:01:43Z")
Sorry for the delay here. We’re actively working on a solution for this that has just taken a little extra time. Basically we have to completely re-structure how exports happen, and make sure we can gather all the data in the background, store it, notify users, and make it available for download. This work is underway now, though, and I’ll keep you updated on that progress here. I hope to have it done within the next month or two.