Title: csv auto update/import
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# csv auto update/import

 *  Resolved [tdemartinis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdemartinis/)
 * (@tdemartinis)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-auto-updateimport/)
 * Hello,
    I cannot seem to find this info anywhere. Is there a way to script or
   have Connection Business Directory auto update/import a csv? Where have 100’s
   of employees and positions change all the time, so it would be great if we can
   this process automated rather than manually editing the users every time.
 * Cheers,
 * Tino
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 *  Plugin Author [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazahm1hotmailcom/)
 * (@shazahm1hotmailcom)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-auto-updateimport/#post-6043825)
 * **@ tdemartinis**
 * There’s nothing officially supported or any code I could point you too, but I
   can say many others have done this by creating a cron utilizing the CSV Import
   extension to do daily imports. The specific details I was not privy too. Basically
   you would have to custom code and set this up.
 *  Thread Starter [tdemartinis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdemartinis/)
 * (@tdemartinis)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-auto-updateimport/#post-6043826)
 * Thanks for the reply!
    Setting a cron to have the csv imported to the server 
   would be fairly easy but how would I do the actual import to the DB from the 
   command line? Or is the cron job scheduled in the WP dashboard?
 * Cheers,
 * Tino
 *  Plugin Author [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazahm1hotmailcom/)
 * (@shazahm1hotmailcom)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-auto-updateimport/#post-6043868)
 * **@ tdemartinis**
 * Unfortunately, like I said, I really do not know the details of their implementation.
 * I suspect it was a server side PHP script that ran via a server cron which bootstrapped
   WP and used the import function in the CSV Import extension to do the actual 
   import. Or maybe they used WP-CLI to load WP and then used the import function.
   There’s few ways it could be done, I’ve just never done it myself so I can not
   give specific instructions.

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 * [csv](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/csv/)
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 * Last reply from: [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazahm1hotmailcom/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/csv-auto-updateimport/#post-6043868)
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