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Hey everyone 👋

 

My name is Ivan and I’m a Customer Support Engineer here at Intercom. You might’ve seen my face around if you messaged our support via the Messenger 👷🏼‍♂️

 

Here’s a sample Python scrip you can use to copy your articles from your US to your EU workspace 👇

import requests

# set parameters for US and EU endpoints/headers
intercom_token_us = "<YOUR US TOKEN GOES HERE>"
intercom_token_eu = "<YOUR EU TOKEN GOES HERE>"
intercom_us_url = "https://api.intercom.io/articles"
intercom_eu_url = "https://api.eu.intercom.io/articles"

# header used to get the articles from US workspace
intercom_headers_us = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + intercom_token_us,
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

# header used to create the articles in EU workspace
intercom_headers_eu = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + intercom_token_eu,
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

# store all articles in a list
articles = e]

# get all articles from the old help center
def get_articles():
response = requests.request("GET", intercom_us_url, headers=intercom_headers_us)
articles = response.json()
return articleso"data"]

# create a new article in the new help center
def create_article(article):
# gets title, body and author ID from the article
# Note: assumes all articles have a title (required field)
payload = {
"title": articleb"title"],
"body": article<"body"],
# Note: Admin ID in your US workspace is different to your Admin ID in your EU workspace
"author_id": "<ADMIN ID GOES HERE>"
}
response = requests.post(intercom_eu_url, headers=intercom_headers_eu, json=payload)

# check if the article was created successfully
if response.status_code == 200:
print("Article created successfully")
else:
print("Article creation failed")
print(response.text.encode('utf8'))

# loop over the articles list and create each article in the new help center
def migrate_articles():
articles = get_articles()
for article in articles:
create_article(article)

migrate_articles()

 

Couple of important things to note here:

  1. You must replace the YOUR X TOKEN GOES HERE with your actual US and EU/AU API tokens. You can get these by creating an app on our Developer Hub 
  2. Articles must have a title, otherwise they won’t be migrated
  3. You must replace ADMIN ID GOES HERE with an actual Admin ID in your EU/AU workspace. Note that Admin IDs in EU/AU and US workspaces are different.  You can find your Admin ID by looking at the browser URL bar while in the Inbox 👇
How to find your admin ID
  1. If you’re looking to migrate Articles to AU workspace, you must change the endpoint from https://api.eu.intercom.io/articles to https://api.au.intercom.io/articles

 

Hope you find this useful! 

Hello @Ivan Branimir 
Thanks for the script, do you have by any chance a collection of useful scripts like this to assist a US to EU migration ? (sorry if this is a bit off-topic) Is it possible to have some sort of community wiki for those practices ?


Hey @Cyril D 👋

 

That’s a brilliant idea - I’ll keep it in mind and hopefully I’ll get some time to post a few more of these to build up a library of these 😀

 

We do have a migration playbook that can aid you in migrating from US to EU workspaces if you're interested. Feel free to DM me your email address and I can send it over to you! 


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