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This has been asked before but I was wondering if anyone has tried moving a Yahoo Group to MyBB 1.8?  

There is a tool called PGOffline that can archive all Yahoo Group data but does anyone know how I would go about importing all the data into a MySQL database?  It seems that people have tried to use PGOffline (Personal Groupware) to do this with other forum software but have had mixed luck. I believe there is an importer for phpBB.  

I'd rather use MyBB thought and if you have any suggestion or tips for how to do this, I'd be happy to hear it.

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Other threads on this topic wanting to move a Yahoo Group to MyBB.

http://community.mybb.com/post-1034177.html
http://community.mybb.com/thread-79236.html
http://community.mybb.com/thread-89389.html
http://community.mybb.com/thread-9611.html
http://community.mybb.com/thread-113697.html

Another program it looks like this can be done with is Group Fetch.

Well, one method I have used in the past is to use a 3rd party that does support conversion.

For example, MyBB does support phpBB3. phpBB3 does support SMF 1.1 but MyBB does not (I think it does, this is just an example)

I would then convert SMF to phpBB3 - then convert the phpBB3 to MyBB. Not ideal - but it will usually get most of the important data across.

it needs to be experimented and at present Merge system experts can't devote time for it

however they can check this in future (may be after a couple of months). And someone has
to provide owner access to a well established yahoo group (post in private inquiries section
& wait with patience)

Would be nice to have some converter or merge system for it. It's still unclear if Yahoo will continue to support Groups. For awhile they were adding new features and updating and then it seemed like they just stopped.

As .m. said: I'd need an example database. Also I've some other priorities atm.

I thought Yahoo Grous were death since 2009 >_>

They were adding regular updates and features for awhile.

http://yahoogroups.tumblr.com/

I am just doing this at the moment (although to 1.6)

The process is... well.... horrendous at best.

I couldn't find anything which could automate this so the process I have gone with is:

1- download the database with pg-offline
2. Import to excel via a database browser from which you can extract the post data about 1000 at a time
3. Convert the hex strings to html using a 'translate function', convert datestrings with another formula
4. replace any table based HTML as mybb doesn't like it
5. create a 'posts' csv in mybb format including any manual column entries
6. use unique rows from this to create a 'threads' csv
7. Uploading this through php admin in the cpanel


Honestly, its taken me around about 3 days to do 22,000 posts, however that is a lot of trial and error.

I will share the details if and when I get time to write it up.

Have you found a way to extract users with their user_id? I am shoving all mine under a 'yahoo groups' username

I haven't attempted this but it does sound like a PIA. I think phpbb has a converter or used to.

It would be better if Yahoo Groups started asking people to export data, if they don't intend to support it, and gave admins tools to export to other platforms.