Hi, I would like to open a new thread to continue the discussion here about an importer for Google Groups. In short, I have a simple python scripts based on Scrapy that scraps all messages of a group to a JSON file. I hope someone who knows Ruby and Discourse API could make it into a real importer …

Alright, I figured it out and I hope this could help others. I’m using GitHub - icy/google-group-crawler: [Deprecated] Get (almost) original messages from google group archives. Your data is yours. · GitHub with the latest version (b42f28d4c36eddce1df039566f3615b0753a2dc6) of mbox import script. C…

[imagem] steinwaywhw: BTW, “New users can only have two links in a post” - why is that? it’s annoying. Its a spam protection measure, you can disable in site settings, on import you generally bypass all validation so this should not be an issue for import.

You are right. I just realized spams are all about posting links.

Those are really helpful. Thanks a lot and i will take time learn some new skills :slight_smile:

Did you look into either of these projects? GitHub - icy/google-group-crawler: [Deprecated] Get (almost) original messages from google group archives. Your data is yours. · GitHub GitHub - henryk/gggd: Get Google Groups Data – Tool to fetch all messages of a Google Group as raw mbox data · GitHub …

Thanks for the pointers. I think it largely works, but the mbox importer has some null pointer exceptions at discourse/script/import_scripts/mbox.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub and discourse/script/import_scripts/base.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub . It seems that the connection…

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mcwumbly (Dave McClure) 14 Junho , 2016 02:19 3

If you want to check out a couple examples of importers that use JSON files as the starting point, there are at least a few precedents:

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