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Gaspeed Posts: 1
1/4/2016
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Can I import a list to my collection?
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mothererich Posts: 1
10/5/2016
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Open API? Let us do the work for you. 
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netstuffers Administrator Posts: 239
10/6/2016
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mothererich wrote:
Open API? Let us do the work for you.
Wish it were that simple.
There's a REALLY big problem and a reason why mass import programs are very rare in comics, and that's that the industry as a whole never really settled on a unique identification system for books.
For example, in the spreadsheet posted above, they listed the books "Amazing Spider-man". Well, is that volume 1, 2, or 3? Or is it Volume 1 of the Pocket Books reprint? Because all of those volumes have the exact same title.
So, what about the official book title as listed in the indicia? Those ARE the official titles.... they don't print the official titles based on uniqueness.
How about UPC code? Well, there are a ton of books that don't have UPC codes, or the codes differ depending on where you got them. How can we import variants without UPCs? What about foreign books with different codes? There's no giant database for us to download every UPC and even if there was, we would have trouble knowing where to put the UPCs based on the title problem above.
So we would need an excel sheet to contain the exact name, volume, issue number, UPC, and probably some other data to match EXACTLY what we have in the system, and even then, we'd probably need to display for you what we *think* is the match, and have you verify every single book just to be safe.
It's a toughie.
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