Importing / Parsing a CSV into a collection

nicolaslairlast year

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  notchrlast year

  Hello @nicolaslair - 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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  nicolaslairlast year

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

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  notchrlast year

  @Ab

  
  

  
  

  @nicolaslair It could be if enough people are importing a lot of data!

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  denolfe

  last year

  @nicolaslair Here's an example script doing an import from csv

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

  Thanks a lot Elliot - I actually ended up writing a complete DB seed script using Payload in 'local' mode - really handy feature 👍

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  ssyberglast year

  Just a word of warning for anyone who ends up here, there's some divergence between data operations between dashboard and local API and this can lead to some pretty difficult to diagnose bugs on programmatic data interactions - two discussions in GH:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/2889

  and

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/2785
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  altered.coderlast year

  @nicolaslair @denolfe I am using

  next-payload

  and want to give user the option to upload bulk data in a collection, how can I achieve that..?

  
  

  
  

  This option won't work for me, I need to do it using hooks or something, any help about that..?