diff --git a/pages/import_from_derpi.tsx b/pages/import_from_derpi.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c57429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pages/import_from_derpi.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import AppBar from '../components/AppBar'
+import db_ops from '../server/helpers/db_ops'
+import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button';
+import axios from 'axios'
+import config from '../config/config'
+import TextField from '@material-ui/core/TextField';
+
+import ErrorPage from 'next/error'
+import { useState } from 'react';
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+export default function Import_from_derpi(props:any) {
+  if(props.err){
+    return <ErrorPage statusCode={404} />
+  }
+  const [error, setError] = useState(false);
+  const [ImageID, setID] = useState('');
+  const handleKeyPress = (e: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
+    if (e.keyCode === 13 || e.which === 13) {
+       add_image();
+    }
+  };
+  const add_image=()=>{
+    axios(`${config.domain}/import_from_derpi`, {
+      method: "post",
+      data: {id:ImageID},
+      withCredentials: true
+    }).then((resp)=>{
+      alert(JSON.stringify(resp.data))
+    }).catch((err)=>{
+      console.log(err)
+    })
+  }
+ 
+ 
+  return (
+    <div>
+      <AppBar />
+      <TextField
+                error={error}
+                fullWidth
+                type="number"
+                label="Derpi image id"
+                placeholder="Derpi image id"
+                margin="normal"
+                onChange={(e)=>setID(e.target.value)}
+                onKeyPress={(e)=>handleKeyPress(e)}
+              />
+      <Button onClick={() => {add_image() }} variant="contained" color="primary" >Add image</Button>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+export async function getServerSideProps(context:any) {
+  if(context.req.session.authed&&context.req.session.user_id){
+    const user=await db_ops.activated_user.find_user_by_id(context.req.session.user_id)
+    if(user[0].isAdmin){
+      return {
+        props:  {},  
+      }
+  }
+}
+  return {
+    props: {err:true},  
+  }
+}
+ 
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diff --git a/server/index.ts b/server/index.ts
index 3dc1c80..7e2eb44 100644
--- a/server/index.ts
+++ b/server/index.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import change_password from './routes/change_password';
 import forgot_password from './routes/forgot_password';
 import activate_account_email from './routes/activate_account_email';
 import update_image_data from './routes/update_image_data'
+import import_from_derpi from './routes/import_from_derpi'
 next_app.prepare().then(() => {
   const app = express()
   const limiter = rateLimit({
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ next_app.prepare().then(() => {
 
 
   app.post('/update_image_data', update_image_data)
+  app.post('/import_from_derpi', import_from_derpi)
 
   app.post('/signup', [
     recaptcha.middleware.verify,
diff --git a/server/routes/import_from_derpi.ts b/server/routes/import_from_derpi.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e03fb54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/routes/import_from_derpi.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion */
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
+import db_ops from './../helpers/db_ops'
+import { Request, Response } from 'express';
+import axios from 'axios'
+import fs from 'fs'
+import path from 'path';
+const imghash: any = require('imghash');
+const PATH_TO_IMAGES = path.join(process.cwd(), 'public', 'images')
+async function parse_author(tags: any) {
+    for (const tag of tags) {
+        const idx = tag.indexOf("artist:")
+        if (idx === 0) {    //tag starts with "artist:" 
+            return tag.slice(7) //strip off "artist:" 
+        }
+    }
+    return "???"
+}
+
+async function import_from_derpi(req: Request, res: Response) {
+    const id = parseInt(req.body.id);
+    const ALLOWED_FORMATS = ["png", 'jpg', "jpeg"]
+    if (req.session?.user_id) {
+        const user = await db_ops.activated_user.find_user_by_id(req.session?.user_id)
+        if (user[0].isAdmin) {
+            try {
+                const imgs = await db_ops.image_ops.find_image_by_id(id)
+                console.log(imgs.length)
+                if (imgs.length !== 0) {
+                    res.json({ message: "Already in the DB" })
+                    return
+                }
+                const response = await axios.get(`https://www.derpibooru.org/api/v1/json/images/${id}`,{ headers: { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36' }  });
+                const derpi_data = response.data.image
+                if (!ALLOWED_FORMATS.includes(derpi_data.format.toLowerCase())) {
+                    res.json({ message: "format is not in allowed formats" })
+                    return
+                }
+                const image =await axios.get(derpi_data.representations.full, {responseType: 'arraybuffer'})
+                const image_id = (await db_ops.image_ops.get_max_image_id())+1
+                fs.writeFile(`${PATH_TO_IMAGES}/${image_id}.${derpi_data.format.toLowerCase()}`, image.data, 'binary', function (err) {
+                    if (err) {
+                        console.log(`There was an error writing the image: derpi_id: ${id} id: ${image_id}`)
+                    }
+                });           
+                const parsed_author = await parse_author(derpi_data.tags)
+                const derpi_link = "https://derpibooru.org/images/" + derpi_data.id
+                const phash = await imghash.hash(`${PATH_TO_IMAGES}/${image_id}.${derpi_data.format.toLowerCase()}`, 16);
+                await db_ops.image_ops.add_image(image_id, derpi_data.format.toLowerCase(), derpi_data.width, derpi_data.height, parsed_author, derpi_data.size,
+                    derpi_link, derpi_data.upvotes, derpi_data.downvotes, derpi_data.id, derpi_data.created_at,
+                    derpi_data.source_url, derpi_data.tags, derpi_data.wilson_score, derpi_data.sha512_hash, phash, derpi_data.description)
+                res.json({ message: `OK. New image_id: ${image_id}`})
+                return
+            } catch (error) {
+                console.error(error);
+            }
+
+        }
+    }
+    res.sendStatus(404);
+}
+
+export default import_from_derpi;
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