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I'm aware I can download the entire anonymized Stack Exchange databases from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

But from what I can see, I can only download the latest snapshot, updated every three months (according to the FAQ).

But is there a way to download the previous snapshots?

Specifically, I would need those data to extract trends by studying how questions' view count evolves.

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    FYI Hosting all Stack Exchange data dumps on archive.org
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 1:07
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    Thank you @Franck for the pointer. But I also seen meta.stackoverflow.com/a/373075/2363712. There Felipe Hoffa claims "you can use Google BigQuery to query the quarterly dumps too" How did they get the "historical" version of the DB dumps? More about that here: console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/stack-exchange/…
    – Sylvain Leroux
    Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 1:24
  • good point, no idea, in guessing private archives or archive.org
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 1:30
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    There is this call to action for community members and this list
    – rene Mod
    Commented Jan 11, 2020 at 9:19
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    @FranckDernoncourt fwiw I was at Google around the time that started and I (unsolicited) provided the BigQuery folks with some old dumps I had, however I don’t think they were ever imported. I believe all of their versions came from the Internet Archive, and they only go back as far to when they started importing them, without backfilling anything from before that. The BigQuery UI is confusing me, though, so I can’t confirm.
    – Jeremy
    Commented Aug 6 at 18:47

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