Seed remote files

francocdev

9 months ago

4

• 

  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  9 months ago

  Yes, you can do this for sure

  
  

  
  

  you can write a simple node script to seed data using payload's local API

  
  

  
  

  and you can even upload files with the local api as well

  
  

  
  

  const payload = require('payload');
  
  require('dotenv').config();
  
  const {
    PAYLOAD_SECRET_KEY,
    MONGO_URL,
  } = process.env;
  
  payload.init({
    secret: PAYLOAD_SECRET_KEY,
    mongoURL: MONGO_URL,
    local: true,
  })
  
  const seed = async () => {
    // fetch your documents
    const docs = await fetch('https://my-api.com').then(res => res.json())
  
    const promises = docs.map(async (doc) => {
      await payload.create({
        collection: 'docs',
        data: doc
      });
    })
  
    await Promise.all(promises)
  
    process.exit(0);
  }
  
  seed();

  
  

  
  

  something like that

  
  

  
  

  and then you'd call the script like

  node seed.js

  or whatever your file is called

• 

  francocdev

  9 months ago

  I understand the use of the local API, but I got problems to upload my old images to /media.

  
  

  Also I realize that the tree schema of rich content is really different from my old <p> website structure

  
  

  
  

  Sorry if I didn't communicate well on the first message. I'm not native, so it's probably unclear.

• 

  martin.rahbek

  9 months ago

  const result = await payload.create({

  
  

      collection: "media",

  
  

      data: {

  
  

        alt: "your alt description",

  
  

      },

  
  

      filePath: path.resolve(__dirname, "./assets/logo.png"),

  
  

    });

  
  

  
  

  You can transform your data at

  https://my-api.com/your-transform

  to fit payload cms.

• 

  francocdev

  9 months ago

  Thanks!