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Bulk upload for domains

Max Ciccotosto
posted this on February 17, 2011 09:03 pm

The bulk upload service is intended to accept a CSV file containing domain information, and create domains based on that information automatically. After creating a well-formatted csv file containing your domain information, login in to the backend and access the following url:

http://productportals.wishpot.com/bulk_upload

If you have admin access, you will be taken to a simple screen where you can upload the file.

The following is an example of a csv file that works:

domain_csv.csv

This file contains one domain entry; however, you can include as many as you need. A couple of notes about the formatting of the file:

  1. There are only a few required fields: Domain name, domain ext, domain title, and owner email address. Additionally, for each page (except the home page), the information entered in those columns will only be used if the page title is present; if you do not enter a title for a page, all of the other information included for that page will be ignored.

  2. If you submit a file that has less or more than the amount of columns in the example file, the operation will automatically abort.

  3. The import is an atomic action; that is, all of the data must be correct, or no domains will be imported.

Because domain waves can get quite large, and because csv files can be hard to read (especially ones of this magnitude), there is logic in place to help you determine what line of the csv file is wrong if you encounter an import problem. It will only tell you the first line it finds wrong, so if there are multiple problems and you only fix one, you will see another error the next time you submit the file.