# GraphIO and MetaGraphs
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graphio-and-metagraphs/17048
**Category:** Graphs
**Tags:** question, lightgraphs, metagraphs
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graphio-and-metagraphs/17048 "2018-11-01T10:41:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@cdsousa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cdsousa)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graphio-and-metagraphs/17048/1 "2018-11-01T10:41:31Z")
Hi,
Is it possible to save (and load) MetaGraphs graphs to common formats while maintaining the metadata?
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### Author:  [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graphio-and-metagraphs/17048/2 "2018-11-02T22:36:24Z")
Not at this time. The formats in GraphIO.jl were designed to work with `AbstractSimpleGraph` and nobody’s created anything else.
PRs gladly accepted, though 🙂
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### Author:  [@simonschoelly](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simonschoelly)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graphio-and-metagraphs/17048/3 "2018-11-05T16:08:36Z")
If you haven’t implemented it yet, you could probably adapt this code I recently wrote:
[https://github.com/simonschoelly/SimpleValueGraphs.jl/blob/master/src/export.jl](https://github.com/simonschoelly/SimpleValueGraphs.jl/blob/master/src/export.jl)
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### Author:  [@cdsousa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cdsousa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/graphio-and-metagraphs/17048/4 "2018-11-05T17:42:57Z")
Nice. Thanks.