# How use API to convert topic in discourse1.com to discourse2.com

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**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-use-api-to-convert-topic-in-discourse1-com-to-discourse2-com/211591 "2021-12-09T08:22:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-use-api-to-convert-topic-in-discourse1-com-to-discourse2-com/211591/4 "2021-12-09T10:01:48Z")

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> [@hokod](#):
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> Then [discourse2.com](http://discourse2.com) will have 7000+ 3000 topics = 10,000 topics?

This is ideally what should happen after a successful import.

It is advisable to backup both discourse 1 and discourse 2 before beginning the import/export just in case something breaks.

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