Hi everybody,
I have 2 forums discourse1.com, and discourse2.com,
for example i have 3000 topics trên discourse1.com, I want to use API to convert 3000 topics in discourse1.com to discourse2.com.
Can someone guide me with the code?
thanks!
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The discussion is about using API to convert topics from discourse1.com to discourse2.com. hokod has 3000 topics on discourse1.com and wants to transfer them to discourse2.com, which already has 7000 topics. pfaffman suggests using the Topic and Category Export/Import script, which is a better approach than using the API.
hokod is concerned that the existing 7000 topics on discourse2.com might be deleted during the transfer process, but itsbhanusharma assures that the transferred topics will be added to the existing ones, resulting in a total of 10,000 topics.
However, after trying the script, hokod reports that the onebox of the topics disappeared. pfaffman suggests that rebuilding the HTML might resolve the issue. Steven confirms that a rebake is necessary and provides a command to do so. However, hokod is still interested in using the API to avoid rebaking other topics.
Steven offers an alternative to rebuild each post manually, but hokod finds this approach too time-consuming and costly, and hopes someone can guide them on using the API without losing the onebox.
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Maybe you want to know about Topic and Category Export/Import. The API isn’t a great way to do that.
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Thanks @pfaffman ,
You can share more:
If there are 7000 topics in discourse2.com, then when I move 3000 topics from discourse1.com to discourse2.com, the 7000 topics in discourse2.com will not be deleted?
Then discourse2.com will have 7000+ 3000 topics = 10,000 topics?
I’m worried, my 7000 topics at discourse2.com will be deleted.
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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Thanks ,
i will try implementing ,
i tried switching, but the onebox of our topics then disappeared,
Is there another way to prevent onebox from being lost?
For example, how about using the API?
If you want to copy topics from one forum to another the script I suggested is the way to do it.
I don’t know what this means. Switching what?
Are you saying that you used that script and when it imported the topics the resulting topics are missing one boxes? Do they come back if you go to the wrench and rebuild html? If so you can either rebake the posts from the command line, or, I suspect, just wait.
My result is the same as in the image, the onebox in the topics is missing.
So I thought of using API, but I’m not sure either: the API method will maintain onebox.
Before:
After:
Thats normal, you need to do a rebake, the posts will be processed and the oneboxes wilo be generated:
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rake posts:rebake
thanks @Steven ,
I still expect to be able to use the API,
because rake posts:rebake will lead to our other topics also rebake.
For certain reasons, it is very difficult for us to make a rebake decision.
You can rebuild each post manually using the … then the wrench icon to open a few option, use Rebuild HTML
It will process the onebox again
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really thank you,
however, we have many topics, if we do it manually it will not be enough time and cost.
Hope someone, can guide me to use the API, without removing onebox.