# An Importer for Google Groups

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-importer-for-google-groups/45624>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [13. Juni 2016 um 23:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-importer-for-google-groups/45624 "2016-06-13T23:20:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [14. Juni 2016 um 15:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-importer-for-google-groups/45624/6 "2016-06-14T15:16:53Z")

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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](https://github.com/icy/google-group-crawler)
- [GitHub - henryk/gggd: Get Google Groups Data – Tool to fetch all messages of a Google Group as raw mbox data · GitHub](https://github.com/henryk/gggd)

They output mbox data, which Discourse already has a script for:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/script/import_scripts/mbox.rb>

So as long as you could get either of those projects to output clean mbox data that the importer script can work with, we’re golden 🕶

p.s. @pacharanero also took [the scraper approach](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-from-google-groups-to-discourse/7307/17) and successfully migrated several sites with it.

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