mealie/docs/docs/api-usage/bulk-url-import.md

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Recipes can be imported in bulk from a file containing a list of URLs. This can be done using the following bash or python scripts with the `list` file containing one URL per line.

#### Bash
```bash
#!/bin/bash

function authentification () {
  auth=$(curl -X 'POST' \
    "$3/api/auth/token" \
    -H 'accept: application/json' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    -d 'grant_type=&username='$1'&password='$2'&scope=&client_id=&client_secret=')

    echo $auth |  sed -e 's/.*token":"\(.*\)",.*/\1/'
}

function import_from_file () {
  while IFS= read -r line
  do
    echo $line
    curl -X 'POST' \
      "$3/api/recipes/create-url" \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer $2" \
      -H 'accept: application/json' \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
      -d '{"url": "'$line'" }'
    echo
  done < "$1"
}

input="list"
mail="changeme@email.com"
password="MyPassword"
mealie_url=http://localhost:9000


token=$(authentification $mail $password $mealie_url)
import_from_file $input $token $mealie_url

```

#### Python
```python
import requests
import re

def authentification(mail, password, mealie_url):
  headers = {
    'accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  }
  data = {
    'grant_type': '',
    'username': mail,
    'password': password,
    'scope': '',
    'client_id': '',
    'client_secret': ''
  }
  auth = requests.post(mealie_url + "/api/auth/token", headers=headers, data=data)
  token = re.sub(r'.*token":"(.*)",.*', r'\1', auth.text)
  return token

def import_from_file(input_file, token, mealie_url):
  with open(input_file) as fp:
    for l in fp:
      line = re.sub(r'(.*)\n', r'\1', l)
      print(line)
      headers = {
        'Authorization': "Bearer " + token,
        'accept': 'application/json',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
      }
      data = {
        'url': line
      }
      response = requests.post(mealie_url + "/api/recipes/create-url", headers=headers, json=data)
      print(response.text)

input_file="list"
mail="changeme@email.com"
password="MyPassword"
mealie_url="http://localhost:9000"


token = authentification(mail, password, mealie_url)
import_from_file(input_file, token, mealie_url)
```