# How can I migrate Stack Overflow data into Discourse?

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**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** stackoverflow\
**Created:** [November 9, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-migrate-stack-overflow-data-into-discourse/284989 "2023-11-09T19:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Discoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Discoder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discoder)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-migrate-stack-overflow-data-into-discourse/284989/3 "2023-11-16T19:29:13Z")

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Not sure how far along you got with the above, but what I ended up doing was just using the Stack Overflow and Discourse APIs. Pulled the posts/answers I wanted from the Stack Overflow API, did some data processing/formatting and then used the Discourse API to create new posts based off the data.

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