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layout: article
title: Import your data from LastPass
categories: [getting-started]
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tags: [import, lastpass]
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Importing your data from LastPass into bitwarden is easy. 

## Export your sites from the LastPass.com web vault

1. Log into your LastPass account at www.lastpass.com and navigate to **More Options** (at the very bottom of the left sidebar menu) &rarr; **Advanced** &rarr; **Export**.<br />
   {% image lastpass-options.png %}
2. This will take you to a page that then asks you to enter your LastPass master password for verification. Enter your LastPass master password.<br />
   {% image lastpass-password.png %}
3. Your data will be decrypted and shown on screen in [CSV][csv] format.
4. Highlight all of the data on the page and copy it to your clipboard.
   - Highlight all of the data with your mouse (or simply press <code>Ctrl + A</code>), then right click with your mouse and select **Copy**.<br />
   {% image lastpass-copy.png %}

{% warning %}
There are known bugs (for years now) with the LastPass exporter regarding special characters such as the ampersand (<code>&amp;</code>), the greater than sign (<code>&gt;</code>), and the less than sign (<code>&lt;</code>). The LastPass exporter may change (HTML encode) these and possibly other special characters in your passwords to their respective HTML encoded values (ex. <code>&amp;amp;</code>, <code>&amp;gt;</code>, and <code>&amp;lt;</code>). If this LastPass bug affects your exported data you should use a text editor (such as Notepad) to find and replace all of these values before importing into bitwarden. For example, you may want to do a find and replace for <code>&amp;amp;</code> &rarr; <code>&amp;</code> and <code>&amp;lt;</code> &rarr; <code>&lt;</code>).
{% endwarning %}

## Import your sites into bitwarden

1. Go to the [bitwarden web vault][bitwarden-vault] and log in.
2. Navigate to **Tools** &rarr; **Import Data**.
3. Select **LastPass** as the file format and paste the [CSV][csv] content into the textbox that you copied to your clipboard in step 4 above.
   - Click into the textbox with your mouse, then right click with your mouse and select **Paste**.
4. Click the **Import** button.

Congratulations! You have just transferred all of your data from LastPass into bitwarden.

[csv]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
[bitwarden-vault]: https://vault.bitwarden.com