I have a forum we’ve just migrated with a lot of discussions (unfortunately not all, about 500 of the thousands) that need to be archived/accessible for the life of the project. It’s coming from is cpmmonwealth.im - a fairly similar platform. I have the entire history exported by their API - 3 fair…

See discourse/script/import_scripts/drupal_json.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub for example and look there for other scripts that process json.

I just made my own thing here, although now I need to still translate this into a form the Discourse API can handle. https://github.com/osmo-support-lab/discourse-migration

eh I know very very little about any of this and even less about sql so that was where I decided to go lol.. it was kind of fun anyway.

Parsing/importing portions of very large JSON export from another forum

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 9, 2023, 7:07pm 4

The json scripts just take the json and stick it into an sql database and read that.

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