Hi,
i need to import a bunch of files and create a node for each one. The file should be added into a cck-filefield and the nodetitle sould be created out of the filename. Additionally I should be able to select some taxonomy terms for all nodes.
Simple task, but there is no module which can do that!
So I wrote one (link below), but before I commit it to the CVS, I just want to start a discussion about the module and its features.
Supported Features
- file is added to a choosen cck field
- Import files form a folder on the server
- filter files with regex
- Create node title out of filename
- Taxonomy support (Select default values for all nodes)
- files can be deleted after import
- the import works ^^
Planned Features
- CCK Support (Select default values for all nodes)
- import profiles to reuse the import settings
- zip-archive upload
- YOUR IDEA
U can find my module here: http://axe312.de/files/files2nodes.tar.gz
Feel free to test it. Its just an alpha-version, but in my case it allready worked perfectly :)
When this discussion results in a CVS commit, I can support the module as co-maintainer, but iam to busy to be the main-maintainer.
greetings,
axe312
ps.: i hope my english is understandable :)
Comments
Did you check out Migrate?
Did you check out Migrate?
How about Node Import...?
http://drupal.org/project/node_import
Just tested it for your use case, and it does exactly what you described above... I created a content type, added a FileField to it, uploaded the files to the field's storage path (per node_import's instructions), and mapped the CSV file's filename column to both the node title and FileField. Worked like a charm... No need to re-invent the wheel.
I've also used node_import to load ~3000 Image nodes in one batch before, so I know it supports large sets of file data pretty well.
NOTE: the 6.x-1.0-rc4 version is almost two years old - the dev version is what everyone pretty much uses as that's where the latest features have been implemented. Not sure why an RC5 has never been cut...? I use this module at least once every few weeks to load a site's content from a client's spreadsheets, and it's pretty stable for a "dev" release.
--EDIT--
I also forgot to address the taxonomy question - node_import supports flat AND hierarchical vocabularies (1+ terms), and can even create the terms on the fly if they don't exist. I loaded a parts catalog up once that had ~4 levels of hierarchy, worked like a charm. Only caveat is that if node_import is creating the terms on the fly, you need to have the import rows sorted so the parent terms for any child terms are already created:
Fruits
Fruits>>Citrus
Fruits>>Citrus>>Orange
if you have something like below loading into a hierarchical vocabulary and the terms don't already exist, it will break with "term does not exist" errors for the first row:
Fruits>>Citrus>>Orange
Fruits
Fruits>>Citrus
NOTE: Term and hierarchy delimiters are configurable per-field.
but what should i do when i
but what should i do when i dont have any cvs files? just the files in the folder uploaded by the other site admins // other tools!?
Use shell tools
cd my_file_dir
ls >somefile.cvs
There are oh-so-many ways to do this.
Check out the Feeds module
Check out the Feeds module for this purpose: http://drupal.org/project/feeds. It can (with contributed modules) import from CSV, TSV, XML, RSS... into the Node system of Drupal, Drupal users, Drupal Commerce entities, taxonomies etc.