Plugin outdated - not longer working

[4levels]

Hi,

I've been trying to get this plugin to work with the current stable version of Strapi (3.5.4) but it doesn't work at all. Webpack even refuses to parse the .scss files and fails early.

There's 2 forks of this project that already contain quite some fixes:

1. https://github.com/akoharu/strapi-plugin-import-content
   Deals with the internal change from .id to ._id
2. https://github.com/khoazero123/strapi-plugin-import-content
   Handles internal path changes and uses the strapi-plugin-helper functions

But even after applying those changes (and renaming all .scss files to .css), the media import doesn't work. Also, the parsing of the existing Strapi models is broken and needs to be revised too.

It seems like the internal uploadProvider is no longer able to upload files programmatically and most guides I find out there are suggesting to use a FormData object and add the file to that, to send it off to the regular api endpoints of the content-manager.

I've asked for help on the Strapi forums as well: https://forum.strapi.io/t/need-help-with-reviving-strapi-plugin-import-content/3937

I also started a fork of this repo to be able to merge my changes with the ones from both forks above to end up with a functional plugin again so I can propose a PR, but I haven't managed to solve the media upload issue either.

@jbeuckm do you have any intentions on updating this plugin? Or have you moved on and should this plugin be considered dead? If the latter, I'll kindly request the Strapi team to remove the blog post as well as it is just misleading at the moment, I've literally spent almost 2 weeks of my time in trying to get it working..

Kind regards,

Erik aka 4levels

[4levels]

I'll commit my efforts so far in my fork as there's more changes than the ones mentioned above and reference this issue there as well.

[phmunhoz]

@4levels, I was seeking for a plugin like this and found this one: https://github.com/EdisonPeM/strapi-plugin-import-

It's very interesting and I think it would be relevant to you.

[4levels]

Hi @phmunhoz,

I don't know about that plugin you mentioned above as the link seems incorrect. - correct link: https://github.com/EdisonPeM/strapi-plugin-import-export-content/
I checked out the plugin and indeed this looks very much like what I have been doing, funny that this plugin was created around the same time I started investigating all this..
Meanwhile, I have alread created a new version of this plugin that does work and adds more features related to i18n and relations. It's far from ready but does what I currently need.. - https://github.com/4levels/strapi-plugin-import-content-i18n