Bulk Upload Images as Simple Products in Magento

The client has thousands of images, each of which is a (simple) product they want in Magento. Each image is named the associated product’s SKU number with a JPG extension. I began by using a recorded Batch script in Photoshop to resize all the images to reduce filesize and make the image more web-friendly.

The following Ruby script generates a Magento Product CSV file from JPG images in a directory. It is pasted as-is.

#!/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'csv'
require 'htmlentities'
require 'uri'


def main
    #Dir.glob("media/products/#{catname}/*").each_with_index do |imgpath, i|

    # Magento 1.7 CSV product headers
    csv_headers = '"store"	"websites"	"attribute_set"	"type"	"category_ids"	"sku"	"has_options"	"name"	"meta_title"	"meta_description"	"image"	"small_image"	"thumbnail"	"url_key"	"url_path"	"custom_design"	"page_layout"	"options_container"	"image_label"	"small_image_label"	"thumbnail_label"	"country_of_manufacture"	"msrp_enabled"	"msrp_display_actual_price_type"	"gift_message_available"	"price"	"special_price"	"weight"	"msrp"	"status"	"visibility"	"Featured"	"Deal"	"Hot"	"enable_googlecheckout"	"tax_class_id"	"is_recurring"	"description"	"short_description"	"meta_keyword"	"custom_layout_update"	"news_from_date"	"news_to_date"	"special_from_date"	"special_to_date"	"custom_design_from"	"custom_design_to"	"qty"	"min_qty"	"use_config_min_qty"	"is_qty_decimal"	"backorders"	"use_config_backorders"	"min_sale_qty"	"use_config_min_sale_qty"	"max_sale_qty"	"use_config_max_sale_qty"	"is_in_stock"	"low_stock_date"	"notify_stock_qty"	"use_config_notify_stock_qty"	"manage_stock"	"use_config_manage_stock"	"stock_status_changed_auto"	"use_config_qty_increments"	"qty_increments"	"use_config_enable_qty_inc"	"enable_qty_increments"	"is_decimal_divided"	"stock_status_changed_automatically"	"use_config_enable_qty_increments"	"product_name"	"store_id"	"product_type_id"	"product_status_changed"	"product_changed_websites"'

    path = "output.csv"
    open(path, 'w') { |f| f.puts csv_headers } 

    Dir.glob("*.JPG").each_with_index do |imgpath, i|
        image_name = File.basename(imgpath)
        image_url = "/#{image_name}"
        sku = image_name[0,image_name.size-4]
        name = sku
        desc_short = sku
        desc = sku
        csv = '"default"	"base"	"Default"	"simple"	"2"	"SKU"	"0"	"NAME"	"META_TITLE"	"META_DESC"	"IMAGE"	"IMAGE"	"IMAGE"	"url-key-SKU"	"url-key-SKU"	""	"No layout updates"	"Block after Info Column"	""	""	""	" "	"Use config"	"Use config"	"No"	"1.0000"	"China"	"1.0000"	""	"Enabled"	"Catalog, Search"	"0"	"0"	"0"	"Yes"	"None"	"No"	"LONG_DESC"	"SHORT_DESC"	"META_KEYWORDS"	""	""	""	""	""	""	""	"10000.0000"	"0.0000"	"1"	"0"	"0"	"1"	"1.0000"	"1"	"0.0000"	"1"	"1"	""	""	"1"	"0"	"1"	"0"	"1"	"0.0000"	"1"	"0"	"0"	"0"	"1"	"NAME"	"0"	"simple"	""	""'
        csv.gsub!('SKU', sku)
        csv.gsub!('NAME', name)
        csv.gsub!('LONG_DESC', desc)
        csv.gsub!('SHORT_DESC', desc_short)
        csv.gsub!('META_TITLE', sku)
        csv.gsub!('META_DESC', sku)
        csv.gsub!('META_KEYWORDS', sku)
        csv.gsub!('IMAGE', "#{image_url}")
        open(path, 'a') { |f| f.puts csv } 
    end

    p "Finished."
end

main


=begin

#require 'yaml'
#require 'hpricot'
#require 'tempfile'
#require 'mechanize'
#require 'open-uri'
#require 'highline/import'
#HighLine.track_eof = false

class Importer
  def initialize
    CSV.foreach('/Users/bluish/Desktop/export_ish.csv') do |row|
      p row.inspect
    end
    return
    
    CSV.open('/Users/bluish/Desktop/export_ish.csv', 'wb') do |csv|
      p 'injecting csv'
      csv << ['123', '', '456'] 
    end
  end
end

class String
  def decode
    HTMLEntities.new(:expanded).decode(self)
  end

  def encode
    #HTMLEntities.new(:expanded).encode(self)
    URI::escape(self)
  end
end
 
def saveImage(remote_url, thumb_url, dir='./media/import')
  require 'open-uri'
    begin
        base = File.basename(remote_url)
        img = "#{dir}/#{base}"
        
        unless File.exist? img
          p img
          open(img, 'wb') do |file|
            file << open(remote_url).read
          end
        end 
        
        thumb =  "#{dir}/thumb-#{base}"
        unless File.exist? thumb
          p thumb
          open(thumb, 'wb') do |file|
            file << open(thumb_url).read
         end
        end
        
        p "GOT MEDIA"

    rescue
       p "FAILED to grab #{remote_url}"
       p "or #{thumb_url}"
       p 'Possible 404? continuing...'
    end
end           

=end