# Batch processing to search and replace in all posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-processing-to-search-and-replace-in-all-posts/33621
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [September 22, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-processing-to-search-and-replace-in-all-posts/33621 "2015-09-22T23:56:03Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-processing-to-search-and-replace-in-all-posts/33621/4 "2015-09-23T01:37:04Z")

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You have a good point it might be nice to have a variant of this task that operates on just post bodies, @sam. It would be much safer too.

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