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. with the latest version (b42f28d4c36eddce1df039566f3615b0753a2dc6) of mbox import script. Crawler Pa…

[画像] 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.

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: Ning Quandora Socialcast (In Progress)

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 - henryk/gggd: Get Google Groups Data – Tool to fetch all messages of a Google Group as raw mbox data They output mbox …

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…

An Importer for Google Groups

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Import Usenet group? Support	4	1084	2023 年 12 月 25 日
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Importing HTML into Discourse Migration	1	467	2023 年 10 月 29 日
Migration from Yahoo! Groups Migration	25	6635	2023 年 11 月 19 日
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An Importer for Google Groups

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