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 https://github.com/icy/google-group-crawler with the latest version (b42f28d4c36eddce1df039566f3615b0753a2dc6) of mbox import script. Crawler Part export _GROUP=your_group_name ./crawler.sh -sh > wget.sh ./wget.sh note that c…

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erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen) Closed July 11, 2016, 7:56am 10

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Import Usenet group? Support	4	1051	December 25, 2023
Migrate a mailing list to Discourse (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, etc) Migrating to Discourse how-to	106	23554	January 22, 2025
Importing HTML into Discourse Migration	1	432	October 29, 2023
Migration from Yahoo! Groups Migration	25	6347	November 19, 2023
Forwarding new posts from googlegroup to Discourse Support	17	2688	July 11, 2023

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