# Can I import users and conversations from Yammer
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329
**Category:** Migration
**Tags:** yammer
**Created:** [April 10, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329 "2016-04-10T09:39:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Stokes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Stokes)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/1 "2016-04-10T09:39:42Z")
Hi All,
I run a technical community in the UK and we run our conversations on Yammer, but I am looking to move that to Discourse going forward.
Has anyone managed to do a user and conversation export from Yammer and import to Discourse, so that I do not lose our existing conversations?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/2 "2016-04-10T23:34:03Z")
Not aware of any yammer imports off the top of my head, but first things first. You need to get some sort of backup off yammer.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Stokes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Stokes)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/3 "2016-04-11T07:24:27Z")
I should be able to get the data export, either from the toolset or I can wrote a quick export utility that uses the API.
Is there a “import schema” that I could use to make it import ready?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/4 "2016-04-11T07:35:45Z")
Not really, we have a base importer that does lots of heavy lifting, you would need to write about 100-500 lines of Ruby to create a new importer.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Stokes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Stokes)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/5 "2016-04-12T07:46:21Z")
That was my thinking. If I process my export to fit the data model of the base importer, then jobs a good 'Un.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/6 "2019-01-05T06:27:19Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/7 "2019-01-06T23:20:14Z")
Afaik, 3 years later, still no Yammer importer
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/8 "2019-06-25T11:28:05Z")
Rats! I’d really like one as there are 3 Yammer networks that I would love to import. I guess that if someone wants one badly enough they will just have to write it themselves.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/9 "2019-06-25T12:42:19Z")
If you have a budget, I can help. See [Redirecting…](https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-migration/) for some basic information on imports.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/10 "2022-12-12T10:03:03Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/11 "2022-12-12T10:17:27Z")
It feels churlish not to at least ask if there’s a Yammer importer 6 years later. 🙂 Anyone?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/12 "2022-12-12T10:22:32Z")
There’s an open PR with a couple of unresolved issues:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17651](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17651)
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/13 "2022-12-12T10:33:29Z")
C’mon @pfaffman, you are so close!!!
Thanks for your help with the import by the way - still reaping the rewards from it.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/14 "2022-12-12T20:25:41Z")
> [@nathankershaw](#):
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> C’mon @pfaffman, you are so close!!!
Well, it doesn’t feel very close.
I’ll try to put another hour into it.
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### Author:  [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/15 "2024-01-11T16:49:45Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17651](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/17651)
I see this was merged Jan 2023. @pfaffman Was this working in the end then?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/16 "2024-01-11T19:40:40Z")
I believe so. Have you tried it?
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### Author:  [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/17 "2024-01-11T20:11:00Z")
We’re running enterprise so sadly not yet, but I’ve also reached out to the team to see if thev’re used it recently. I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft made nasty changes since the last update to the importer.
If I can get my hands on our database in the next week or so I’ll see if we can give this a whirl and provide feedback accordingly 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/18 "2024-01-12T08:33:20Z")
> [@Tris20](#):
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> and provide feedback accordingly 🙂
So, just an update from our side: I think sadly we’re going to give the importer a miss.
It’s about 80 hrs to migrate manually, the team think there might be a bit of work needed on the importer, plus aligning with purchasing and legal internally would ultimately result in little benefit for us. Plus getting hold of the DB from IT isn’t exactly straightforward 😕
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-import-users-and-conversations-from-yammer/42329/19 "2024-01-12T20:03:14Z")
The idea that 80 hours and migrating manually easier is “easier” is quite funny indeed, but I guess I can see how wrangling IT, legal, and purchasing is much harder than updating a script.