View Single Post
  #1  
Old 07-28-2010, 08:53 PM
neatchee neatchee is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 2
Благодарил(а): 0 раз(а)
Поблагодарили: 0 раз(а) в 0 сообщениях
Default Viable import format for unsupported forum via API export [UserVoice]

The company I work for has been using UserVoice as their feedback system of choice (against my urgings). They've finally been convinced that moving to vBulletin is a wise decision. UserVoice has no export options for its database, however it does have a half-way decent API which you can use to pull threads, comments, userinfo etc. My question is: If I write my own export program using their API, is there a simple (or relatively simple) format I can dump all the data into (since the forum is still relatively small) that I could then import into vBulletin 4.x? I know I can do a text userlist, but I'd like to get post data as well.

Alternatively, does anyone have a good method for using vBulletin API to do this? Take output from the UserVoice API as input to the vBulletin API? I don't really need to maintain user info on the posts, I just need the post content. So, if needbe, I'd be okay setting up a user account named "Migrated Content" and using that account as the "poster" for all the post data migrated from UserVoice. I took a look at the vBulletin API documentation but I'm honestly no programmer, so it was pretty overwhelming.
Reply With Quote
 
X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
  • Page Generation 0.01227 seconds
  • Memory Usage 1,761KB
  • Queries Executed 11 (?)
More Information
Template Usage:
  • (1)SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST
  • (1)ad_footer_end
  • (1)ad_footer_start
  • (1)ad_header_end
  • (1)ad_header_logo
  • (1)ad_navbar_below
  • (1)footer
  • (1)gobutton
  • (1)header
  • (1)headinclude
  • (6)option
  • (1)post_thanks_box
  • (1)post_thanks_button
  • (1)post_thanks_javascript
  • (1)post_thanks_navbar_search
  • (1)post_thanks_postbit_info
  • (1)postbit
  • (1)postbit_onlinestatus
  • (1)postbit_wrapper
  • (1)spacer_close
  • (1)spacer_open 

Phrase Groups Available:
  • global
  • postbit
  • reputationlevel
  • showthread
Included Files:
  • ./showpost.php
  • ./global.php
  • ./includes/init.php
  • ./includes/class_core.php
  • ./includes/config.php
  • ./includes/functions.php
  • ./includes/class_hook.php
  • ./includes/modsystem_functions.php
  • ./includes/functions_bigthree.php
  • ./includes/class_postbit.php
  • ./includes/class_bbcode.php
  • ./includes/functions_reputation.php
  • ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php 

Hooks Called:
  • init_startup
  • init_startup_session_setup_start
  • init_startup_session_setup_complete
  • cache_permissions
  • fetch_postinfo_query
  • fetch_postinfo
  • fetch_threadinfo_query
  • fetch_threadinfo
  • fetch_foruminfo
  • style_fetch
  • cache_templates
  • global_start
  • parse_templates
  • global_setup_complete
  • showpost_start
  • bbcode_fetch_tags
  • bbcode_create
  • postbit_factory
  • showpost_post
  • postbit_display_start
  • post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start
  • post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start
  • post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end
  • post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start
  • post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end
  • fetch_musername
  • postbit_imicons
  • bbcode_parse_start
  • bbcode_parse_complete_precache
  • bbcode_parse_complete
  • postbit_display_complete
  • post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start
  • showpost_complete