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

Falco · July 14, 2022, 2:19pm

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

script/import_scripts/fluxbb.rb

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            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

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