# (No longer supported) Import posts from Facebook group into Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089
**Category:** Self-Hosting
**Created:** [22 april 2013 om 21:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089 "2013-04-22T21:27:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![Sander78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sander78/32/296615_2.png) [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [11 januari 2019 om 18:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/105 "2019-01-11T18:34:22Z")

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Thanks for testing this. I had no idea the Discourse part would still work. I remeber I was never able to extract usernames from Facebook. In stead I used mail addressess.

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### Author: ![meriksson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meriksson/32/66712_2.png) [@meriksson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meriksson)
#### Post date: [12 januari 2019 om 04:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/106 "2019-01-12T04:58:06Z")

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I was perhaps a bit unclear in my last post, it seems the importer could not fetch user objects at all this time. Previously it fetched users including their `id`, `first_name`, `last_name` etc. But I’m not sure if it ever fetched usernames. I always just referenced the user data objects by their Facebook ID.

I want to emphasize that it might be very easy to fix this and get the script to fetch user objects again. Maybe just a slightly different API call or maybe some permission you need to set when generating the access token.

See link below. If Facebook is in the middle of a transition between versions, that might explain why there are problems. So far, the importer has used the `user_managed_groups` permission. Perhaps it is easy to rewrite it to use the new Groups API.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50215213/is-facebook-graph-api-v3-0-for-groups-broken>

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### Author: ![Neeraj\_Saini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neeraj_saini/32/129927_2.png) [@Neeraj\_Saini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neeraj_Saini)
#### Post date: [24 januari 2019 om 23:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/107 "2019-01-24T23:27:25Z")

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Interested in moving my Facebook group to discourse. Can you Help with this migration? My group has 40k+ members. Ready to signup for a business plan

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### Author: ![Neeraj\_Saini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neeraj_saini/32/129927_2.png) [@Neeraj\_Saini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neeraj_Saini)
#### Post date: [24 januari 2019 om 23:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/108 "2019-01-24T23:48:14Z")

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Based on this do you think we will be able to map fb users to discourse fb signups with the same user?

> **[v19.0 - Graph API - Documentation - Meta for Developers](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/version19.0)**
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> Graph API and Marketing API v19.0 Changelog

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [25 januari 2019 om 01:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/109 "2019-01-25T01:16:14Z")

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As long as you follow the terms of our standard hosting agreement and pay for a year of business hosting up front, we’d be happy to take it on: [https://discourse.org/buy](https://discourse.org/buy)

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### Author: ![Neeraj\_Saini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neeraj_saini/32/129927_2.png) [@Neeraj\_Saini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Neeraj_Saini)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 10:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/110 "2019-05-17T10:39:09Z")

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Sorry I totally missed your response. I can signup for one year plan. Would like to know the deliverables. Will you be able to migrate all the existing posts/comments and users to discourse?

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### Author: ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [5 augustus 2019 om 13:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/114 "2019-08-05T13:52:32Z")

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Closing topic as migration from Facebook is not possible due to restrictions in the API.

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### Author: ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [5 augustus 2019 om 13:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/115 "2019-08-05T13:52:36Z")

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### Author: ![osioke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/osioke/32/238946_2.png) [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [15 juli 2021 om 11:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/116 "2021-07-15T11:06:55Z")

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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [14 september 2022 om 19:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-longer-supported-import-posts-from-facebook-group-into-discourse/6089/117 "2022-09-14T19:54:56Z")

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