# Importing from a legacy forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-a-legacy-forum/28507>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [May 8, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-a-legacy-forum/28507 "2015-05-08T15:18:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-a-legacy-forum/28507/2 "2015-05-11T03:19:47Z")

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Plenty of examples in the import scripts folder, there is no generic import tool.

It’s likely going to require a small amount of ruby hacking unless you somehow get your data into one of the forums we already have an importer for, or do a 2 phase import.

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