Importing / Parsing a CSV into a collection

Above The Clouds

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  thisisnotchris

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  Hello @Above The Clouds - I've heard of people doing this, there may even be a code example in the discord archive

  
  

  
  

  However, you could create a script to loop over each entry in your CSV and hit the create endpoint for that collection

  
  

  
  

  You could also do it via a migration script in mongodb, but the API route feels easier to me

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  Above The Clouds

  last week

  Thanks @thisisnotchris - do you think it would be a good use case for a plugin?

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  thisisnotchris

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  @Ab

  
  

  
  

  @Above The Clouds It could be if enough people are importing a lot of data!

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  denolfe

  Payload Team

  last week

  @Above The Clouds Here's an example script doing an import from csv

  https://payloadcms.com/community-help/github/user-csv-import-for-a-collection