XF 2.2 Google forums to XF?

[Sonnie]

I did not find anything on this via search. Is there any way to import Google forum threads into XF?

 

[Paul B]

Assuming you can obtain the database, it would require a custom importer.

 

[Sonnie]

Hmmm... my thinking is Google would not share the database and probably can't export it.

 

[FreelancerHH]

Hmmm... my thinking is Google would not share the database and probably can't export it.

If that's the fact (did you verify it?), you would need a sort of scraping tool to generate an export.

 

[Sonnie]

I'm totally unfamiliar with how to do any of that. We have a company that is using Google forums and is now using our forum for their support forum, and someone was asking about moving all their threads from the Google forum to their new forum on our XF site. Perhaps I should post something in the "for hire" forum to let some of those more tech savvy look at it and tell me what would be involved and the cost.

 

[Paul B]

A lot of work would be required to convert the scraped content into a format which could be inserted into an XF database.

 

[javakhir]

another way is: migrate to mybb

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after that, import to FX

 

[Sonnie]

Thanks... I'll check it out.