# Akismet: Use for existing posts?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** akismet
**Created:** [September 13, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910 "2020-09-13T21:12:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910/1 "2020-09-13T21:12:41Z")
Hi, a quick question.
Do you think [Discourse Akismet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-akismet-anti-spam/109337) can somehow be used to detect spam in the existing posts?
I’m importing a forum with a lot of spam and I can’t clean it up all before importing to Discourse.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910/2 "2020-09-15T13:29:06Z")
I think that I might do that it in import script, though I’m not quite sure just how.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/akismet-use-for-existing-posts/163910/3 "2020-09-15T14:25:39Z")
It’s possible, but I think you’ll have to make changes to the import script.
You’ll need to be able to instantiate this class in the script:
>
You may need to copy the code and adapt it to work without Discourse specific code like `Discourse.base_url`, `SiteSetting.akismet_api_key`, etc.
The client `#comment_check` method expects a body, so you’ll have to build something like this:
>
More info about this [here](https://akismet.com/development/api/#comment-check).
Then you could do something like this:
```ruby
# Check if a post is spam.
client = Akismet.build_client
body =
is_spam = client.comment_check(body)
```