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# Import from MakerWorld, Printables and Thingiverse
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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 or Thingiverse, or any
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direct link to a model file. Paste several links, one per line, and they're imported one after another as a
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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 three sites, so you can import without leaving the page, file the model into a collection, and import whole
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collections.
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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. MakerWorld collections are imported with Thingport Grab.
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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, its print profiles: the one the link points to, all of the designer's, or the
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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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Printables works with no setup. MakerWorld needs your session cookie, and Thingiverse an App Token set by an admin.
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See [provider setup](../PROVIDER_SETUP.md). Admins can also [turn a provider off](../PROVIDER_SETUP.md#turning-a-provider-off)
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for the whole instance, and 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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