Add an import feature
I have a collection on another site and would love to import it.
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Scott Jordan commented
StashMyComics has an import feature. They have a template Excel file you can download. It is incumbent on you to conform your data to match their schema. As for value matching, it does a best guess on the series/title. It them presents a 2 column table with the imported values on the left. The right column has a dropdown of possible series names. Once you select a series match it down an issue number search. You check the boxes of the issues to import.
It isn't perfect, but it gets you 90% of the way there saving many, many hours of manual entry.
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Comments are still valid. There is no universal ID for comics and we have not seen any export from another system that gives you the ISBN/UPC to where we could build an importer.
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Anonymous commented
Bump!!
Did anything ever come of this??!! -
Yes...we have looked into it. We have even looked into "scanning" but phone scanning software doesn't seem to understand the EAN13+5. But I could build an import system for ISBNs.
One "issue" with this is there are some books that have the same ISBN. I guess if there wasn't a distinct one then it would reject it and you would have to manually add.
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Enderwiggins23 commented
What i noticed is that your site lists the ISBN. I want to scan my collection, get a huge list of ISBNs and then import my CSV/XML file into your site. Any books that your database doesn't have an ISBN for, would show up as a list of rejected ISBNs. Then I could pull those to the side and enter them manually (and provide the ISBN for those unfindable books at the same time making your database better in the process).
This would speed up entering books into my collection EXPONENTIALLY!
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It would be nice (and I would love to do it), but it is virtually impossible. Every system likely has their own internal tracking ID for a given comic. So an export from system A would have to have this ID, and then the importing system would need to be manually mapped to the importing systems ID.
So the first person to do this would have to manually map say 5,000 items. The next person a fraction, etc.
This would only be possible if the exporting system did provide their ID (haven't seen any yet) and they never changed.
You could email me (doughboy@ the site) a sample export for your system and I could take a look, but I am guessing what I stated above will hold true.