# Public data dumps
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 14, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531 "2014-06-14T05:17:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@obvio171](https://meta.discourse.org/u/obvio171)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/1 "2014-06-14T05:17:08Z")
I’d like to propose a public data export feature similar to [Stack Exchange’s](https://archive.org/details/stackexchange). This is not the same as the [backup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855) feature, because it requires sanitizing all private user data first. Both JSON and HTML export formats would be great.
This is useful for:
- CC-licensed content to be made available more easily
- users to feel more comfortable knowing that the site can’t suddenly disappear with all their content
- data analysis, etc.
Let me know what you think.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/2 "2014-06-14T10:47:31Z")
Sounds like a great idea, would you like to work on something like this?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/3 "2014-06-14T15:23:50Z")
I would rather see the individual download button on the user page working first.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/4 "2014-06-14T15:51:39Z")
Maybe these are related. E.g. the functionality provides filtering options during the export process. Export content from these users, these topics, these keywords etc.
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### Author:  [@samwilson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/samwilson)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/5 "2017-11-20T01:25:55Z")
This would be great!
Did this feature ever get built? What’s the best way to provide public exports of a site?
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/6 "2023-03-31T10:45:00Z")
Now that ChatGPT has moved the world of bots and AI closer to center stage, starting to see mention of using the data from a Discourse forum as training data. As such this topic seemed like one of two possiblities for such, the other being the Discourse Rest API.
I know admins have the ability to grab a backup and then santize the data, having a known standard would be prefered.
Can we get a current status on this even it is only, no change since last time. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/8 "2023-03-31T11:34:57Z")
This is in our roadmap for the AI team now. 😃
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/public-data-dumps/16531/9 "2023-03-31T11:54:25Z")
Glad to see Discourse is headed in the right direction, so sad for the little bird.