import export

Hi,

Was trying to find ways to export/import content from drupal 8 so that it can imported to another drupal 8 site or import into a custom application.
Which modules can help?
https://www.drupal.org/project/parser_csv is obsolete
https://www.drupal.org/project/backup_migrate is for entire site/db
https://www.drupal.org/project/importexportapi no releases any more
Anything else I can look into?
Was looking at
https://groups.drupal.org/node/21338#import_and_export_generic

As I'm debugging the code for the Drupal 6 port of importexportapi I am thinking of ideas for the version 2 rendition of the module. The original version of the module was written before there was a Schema API to use and with the Schema API the module could take on a whole different form. Also, currently the module is written to import/export Drupal tables only based on the modules name, not bad, but this doesn't give any room for external data sources that are not tied to a module enabled by Drupal. Therefore an API for the external data needs to be created.

moved to a wiki http://groups.drupal.org/node/21338

All this import/export malarky is actually part of a problem I identified many years ago, while writing FAPI.

FAPI in it's current state was always meant to be the first phase in a much larger project to fix a lot of the inherent design problems we have been bumping heads against now.

If the code looks 'non-drupal like' to you, keep in mind when this presentation was done, FAPI itself was new, and such sweeping changes still had an opportunity of being taken seriously. Unfortunately I suffered from burnout shortly afterwards, and extracted myself from doing serious core development.

FAPI3 - AKA Data API presentation

Read below for some comments on this :

Really a prayer rather than a query - what are the feasibilies to taking an existing XML schema and importing it using this API? - am I in completely the wrong ballpark?

I work with biological databases and we have a whole load of standard data exchange formats (see TDWG for further information on these standards), and it would be really neat™ if this were possible.

Let me know if I need to be going elsewhere.
Thanks,
Kehan

Hi All,

I am currently trying to get my head around this API.

I need to import a CSV file into Drupal.. simple enough really.

What I'm looking for is some example of use of the ImportExportApi in use in some other modules.

I find it really helps to see the code in action somewhere, to get a good feel for how it works.

So apart from the Module itself, can anybody point me int the right direction?

Later
Alan