Importing data from another website into Umbraco 7
Hey guys!
I'm wondering if it's possible to "scan" a website, gather some informations and store them directly into Umbraco 7?
It might be a weird question but an example is the page I'm working on: www.roldskov.sp34k.dk. This page sells all sort of bikes and equipment and I'm at the point where I have to manually enter around 300 different bikes as you can see here an example of here: Example product.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to do the following:
Enter a bike category from the manifacturer: Specialized
Scan all the products with images, informations etc.
Store these informations into my Umbraco site in the same category you'll see here.
This might be a HUGE tasks but I'm just curious! Have any of you done any of this? It's going to take ages to insert around 500 different products manually ;)
This package allows you to import content and images into Umbraco from a variety of sources, including other Umbraco sites, xml, csv file etc.
Otherwise, if the information is on a website, that you can't get access to then it's possible to write code to 'spider' that site, and retrieve the html for each page. An example would be something like this:
https://github.com/sjdirect/abot
Importing data from another website into Umbraco 7
Hey guys!
I'm wondering if it's possible to "scan" a website, gather some informations and store them directly into Umbraco 7?
It might be a weird question but an example is the page I'm working on: www.roldskov.sp34k.dk. This page sells all sort of bikes and equipment and I'm at the point where I have to manually enter around 300 different bikes as you can see here an example of here: Example product.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to do the following:
This might be a HUGE tasks but I'm just curious! Have any of you done any of this? It's going to take ages to insert around 500 different products manually ;)
Hi Mike
Take a look at CMSImport: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/cmsimport/
This package allows you to import content and images into Umbraco from a variety of sources, including other Umbraco sites, xml, csv file etc.
Otherwise, if the information is on a website, that you can't get access to then it's possible to write code to 'spider' that site, and retrieve the html for each page. An example would be something like this: https://github.com/sjdirect/abot
And then It's possible to write code with Umbraco's Content Service to create Umbraco nodes, corresponding to the information you wish to import. https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/management/services/contentservice
regards
Marc
Hey Marc,
Thank you for the quick reply and helpful sources. I'll check them out and see what I can achieve.
Thank you once again! :)
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