Is it possible to clone all my user accounts into Discourse?

Erik_Vollstädt · July 14, 2022, 2:02pm

We have integrated the Discourse API into our website for the forum and messaging functionality first of all. And we wanted every of our users to automatically have a Discourse user account so they could be using the messaging functionality in general also outside of what would be the forum. Is that possible in general? First of all to clone the users and secondly to use Discourse’s message feature outside of the forum?

crcoli7307 · July 14, 2022, 2:14pm

Does your current site have OAuth? If so it would make transferring account. Much easier since your users would simply click “Log-in with old site” and it would make them a new account on the spot.

I don’t know if there is a way to use Discourse messaging outside of the platform without some clever programming.

Falco · July 14, 2022, 2:19pm

That’s certainly possible. Our migration scripts do mass user creation in a similar fashion:

github.com/discourse/discourse

script/import_scripts/fluxbb.rb

main


      
            mysql_query(
              "SELECT id, username, realname name, url website, email email, registered created_at,
                    registration_ip registration_ip_address, last_visit last_visit_time,
                    last_email_sent last_emailed_at, location, group_id, signature bio
             FROM #{FLUXBB_PREFIX}users
             LIMIT #{BATCH_SIZE}
             OFFSET #{offset};",
            )
          
          break if results.size < 1
          
          next if all_records_exist? :users, results.map { |u| u["id"].to_i }
          
          create_users(results, total: total_count, offset: offset) do |user|
            {
              id: user["id"],
              email: user["email"],
              username: user["username"],
              name: user["name"],
              created_at: Time.zone.at(user["created_at"]),
              website: user["website"],

Since you are familiar with the API, you can also use that to create new users: Discourse API Docs

Erik_Vollstädt · July 14, 2022, 2:52pm

Thanks for your answers @Falco and @crcoli7307! We’ll definitely try this and see if we can get the private messaging functionality alive for all of our pages as well.

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