# Moving topics between sites?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-topics-between-sites/35208
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 3, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-topics-between-sites/35208 "2015-11-03T10:36:12Z")
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### Author: ![ckamps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ckamps](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ckamps)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-topics-between-sites/35208/3 "2015-11-19T12:53:30Z")

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Awesome. It looks like there’s official movement in this direction:

> [@CLI command to migrate a single category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cli-command-to-migrate-a-single-category/35728):
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> We need to build a general purpose tool for moving a category from one Discourse instance to another. This has come up on one of our customers and is also useful for a variety of use cases: Use cases for category import / export (current need) During huge migrations we may need to avoid long term downtime, so we need to run a temporary site on one domain and then ship the content (eventually) to the new imported site In some cases category partitioning is not strong enough, we have seen t…

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