#Seed remote files

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somber relic
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Hi, it's possible to seed data from a remote url?
I'm migrating a website with 50k+ posts to payload, but can't find a way to upload the images of each post with the previous url.
And also, I would like to know how to transform text build in plain html (Only <p> tags) to the format that require payload to seed the data.
Thanks!

warm wasp
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Yes, you can do this for sure

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you can write a simple node script to seed data using payload's local API

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and you can even upload files with the local api as well

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const payload = require('payload');

require('dotenv').config();

const {
  PAYLOAD_SECRET_KEY,
  MONGO_URL,
} = process.env;

payload.init({
  secret: PAYLOAD_SECRET_KEY,
  mongoURL: MONGO_URL,
  local: true,
})

const seed = async () => {
  // fetch your documents
  const docs = await fetch('https://my-api.com').then(res => res.json())

  const promises = docs.map(async (doc) => {
    await payload.create({
      collection: 'docs',
      data: doc
    });
  })

  await Promise.all(promises)

  process.exit(0);
}

seed();
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something like that

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and then you'd call the script like node seed.js or whatever your file is called

somber relic
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I understand the use of the local API, but I got problems to upload my old images to /media.
Also I realize that the tree schema of rich content is really different from my old <p> website structure

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Sorry if I didn't communicate well on the first message. I'm not native, so it's probably unclear.

cedar anvil
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const result = await payload.create({
    collection: "media",
    data: {
      alt: "your alt description",
    },
    filePath: path.resolve(__dirname, "./assets/logo.png"),
  });