# How to seed local database with SSO user data

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [November 21, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-seed-local-database-with-sso-user-data/53210 "2016-11-21T19:09:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-seed-local-database-with-sso-user-data/53210/5 "2016-11-21T19:34:04Z")

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I believe I have the URLs. Since avatars get populated when someone logs in, I was thinking that I could use the API (or console) to suck them down from SSO. The importers I’d looked at were uploading the avatars (which I don’t have), but now I see that I can pass a `avatar_url` to `create_users`, which should solve my problem.

Thanks.

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