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Each provider gets its own page under docs/providers/ with a short description, what it needs (sign-in, Thingport Grab, FlareSolverr) and its setup steps, with the provider's icon as an accent. PROVIDER_SETUP.md becomes the overview, with a dependency and feature table. MakerWorld, Printables and Thingiverse come first everywhere.
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# Import from MakerWorld, Printables, Thingiverse, MyMiniFactory, Snapmaker Space, MakerOnline, Creality Cloud, NexPrint, Thangs and Cults3D
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Thingport keeps a real copy of every model you import: its files, photos, title, description, tags, author and a link
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back to where it came from. If the original page disappears, the model is still in your library.
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## Ways to import
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- **Paste a link.** Click **Add → Import** and paste a model link from MakerWorld, Printables, Thingiverse,
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MyMiniFactory, Snapmaker Space, MakerOnline, Creality Cloud, NexPrint, Thangs or Cults3D, or any direct link to a model file. Paste several links, one per line, and they're imported one after
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another as a background job. You can also paste a link straight into the search bar.
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- **Use Thingport Grab.** The [browser extension](../../extension/README.md) adds a Thingport button to model pages on
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all ten sites (MyMiniFactory, Snapmaker Space, MakerOnline, Creality Cloud, NexPrint, Thangs and Cults3D once you allow them, with a single click in its popup), so you can
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import without leaving the page, file the model into a collection, and import whole collections.
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This is the recommended way to import.
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- **Or use the bookmarklet.** Without the extension, drag the [bookmarklet](../guides/bookmarklet.md) to your
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bookmarks bar: clicking it on a model's page opens Thingport with the link already in the import dialog.
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- **Import a collection or your likes.** Paste a collection link, or your Thingiverse likes, and pick which models to
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bring in. Your Snapmaker Space likes and bookmarks import from your profile's Interactions tab with Thingport Grab,
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and your Creality Cloud and Thangs likes, and anyone's Cults3D likes, from their page, in Thingport or with Grab. MakerWorld collections are imported with Thingport Grab.
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- **MakerOnline goes through Thingport Grab.** MakerOnline hands out its files only to its own pages, so a MakerOnline
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link pasted in Thingport, a MakerOnline collection or your likes imported here, and a synced MakerOnline collection
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all wait for Grab: the next time you open makeronline.com in a browser with Grab, it imports them there.
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- **Keep a collection in sync.** A [synced collection](../guides/synced-collections.md) imports models added to it on
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the provider later, on its own.
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## What comes with a model
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- Every file, and on MakerWorld, Snapmaker Space, MakerOnline, Creality Cloud and NexPrint, its print profiles: the one the link points to, all of the
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designer's, or the community's too. Each profile becomes its own file on the model.
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- The photo gallery, the formatted description, tags and the source site's category, which Thingport maps to your own
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[categories](organize-and-search.md).
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- The author, with their avatar and profile, linked to an [author page](authors.md).
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If a detail couldn't be fetched at the time, such as the author, **Fetch missing details** on the model page tries
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again.
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## Big imports
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Collections and lists of links run as background jobs. A progress bar shows how far along they are, and a notification
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says what came in when they finish. A model you already have is never imported twice, so importing the same collection
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again only brings in what's new. Failed links can be retried once the cause is fixed, and imports sent to the queue
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from Thingport Grab wait in **Administration → Import queue** until they're started.
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## Before you start
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MakerWorld needs your session cookie, Printables works with no setup, and Thingiverse needs an App Token set by an
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admin. The other sites each need a key or your own sign-in, which Thingport Grab mostly hands over for you; MakerOnline's
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files come only through Grab. [Providers](../PROVIDER_SETUP.md) compares what each one needs, with a setup page per
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site. Admins can also [turn a provider off](../PROVIDER_SETUP.md#turning-a-provider-off) for the whole instance, and
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then nothing is imported from it.
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Imported models can be categorized and their descriptions cleaned up on the way in with the optional
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[AI features](../guides/ai.md).
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