# Generic import-from-URL feature
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-import-from-url-feature/61593
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-import-from-url-feature/61593 "2017-04-25T19:37:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@trudat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trudat)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-import-from-url-feature/61593/1 "2017-04-25T19:37:20Z")
Posting this feature / plugin idea in hopes that it already exists somewhere.
The feature would allow a user to import the complete contents of a web page to a new topic using a URL. The real value of the feature would be in stripping out all HTML tags, converting formatting into markdown, importing image assets, and converting onebox-able content into simple links.
I suspect that a lot of that magic code has already been implemented for migrations from other forums. So this feature/plugin could be feasible to implement leveraging existing migration packages.
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-import-from-url-feature/61593/2 "2017-04-25T19:43:52Z")
An _entire_ webpage is a bit of work to import. Every site builds them differently. Many sites these days might not even build HTML for users, but instead have the browser import a javascript app and some page specific data then construct the page in browser.