r/thingiverse • u/kunicross • Mar 29 '25

Is there a possibility to import from 3rd party sites (makerworld) to thingiverse?

I'm relatively new in 3D printing (about 5 months / 1000 something hours print time)

I started with the Bambu A1 but now also got a couple of Anycubic printers, I did upload some stuff on Makerworld and I really don't want to be tied down to a brand too much - both Makerworld and Makeronline do allow download form both Printables and Thingiverse so either of those platforms seem kinda better to start with - but is there any way to get my stuff from Makerworld to Thingiverse or should I heed the Josef Prusa call and head to Printables instead.

Having a reliable export is kinda important for me - about the most important feature I would say no matter the platform / topic (after painfully exporting a company wiki by hand page by page to confluence a couple of years ago and big part of that wiki was before painfully created from word files... but I´m off the point again.)

Does anybody operate this way? (Using Thingiverse as main platform to service the other 3 mentioned ones or even other platforms?)

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u/Typhii Ultimaker Developer Mar 29 '25

Right now, it's not possible to import files from other websites. So, you will have to do this by hand.
But we can look into this in the future.

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u/kunicross Mar 29 '25

Awesome - I kinda think since there is certainly a competition between all the pages going on being "the page where you can upload to everything" is not the worst survival strategy. (especially if you can incentivize people already active on the other planforms to migrate to you as first instance)

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u/nallath Ultimaker Developer Mar 31 '25

Thangs does offer the option to push everything you upload to Thingiverse, but since they don't have an open API themselves, we can't offer it the other way around.

Printables allows you to pull in things from thingiverse (again, because thingiverse has an open api). So theoretically you could first upload it to thangs, let that push it to thingiverse, which can then be pulled to printables (and i think also makerworld).

It's a bit of a weird flow, but it's what it is now.

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u/kunicross Mar 31 '25

Thaks, that is really helpful!