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I have a custom content type and I now need to create thousands of entries using that type. It would take a very, very long time to go through the interface and add these one by one. I'm hoping there is a plugin, module, or some kind of API so that I can create all of these entries in an excel and simply import them into the database. Is this possible?

I have not been able to get Drush working so that isn't really an option for me.

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The most direct answer to your question is Migrate Source XSL module for the D8 Migrate API.

Or hell, dont have Windows/Excel installed do the same with Google Sheets Migrate Plus plugin.

I'm not sure if there is a UI for Migrate yet in D8. But this would be the most flexible solution. If needed you could use the drupal api itself to code simple insertion from a php script to create Nodes from an excel script; but the above migrate plugins should be much for flexible to debug in the long run -- but may require Drush support currently.

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Ask previously, how to create a Node in D8: Programmatically create nodes

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  • But the fields for each content type are all in separate tables in the database. If I use the drupal API to code an insertion, do I have to manually update every field in every table or is there an API that can hook into my custom content type? The Entity API?
    – garek007
    Apr 21, 2017 at 16:16
  • Hey one more question about the stackoverflow link you referenced above. Where would I place and run that script?
    – garek007
    Apr 21, 2017 at 16:41
  • Nevermind. I made a module and I just load that page and I am able to insert new content. This worked great!
    – garek007
    Apr 21, 2017 at 17:52

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