Forum Aquisition

[Timelord]

Hey gang.

I have an existing forum (Discourse), and another site in my same niche is throwing in the towel (also Discourse).

How do I ‘import’ the content from his site to mine without doing a full backup/restore?

Any pointers?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Move topics from one Discourse instance to another

Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enabled, …

[Timelord]

Very cool!

Thanks for this.

[darkpixlz (Pyx)]

If that solves your problem, you should come back when done and mark as solution so people with similar issues in the future know that works.

[Timelord]

I should have some results here in the next week or so when I try it in dev.