Magmi is Magento Mass Importer
Developed By: dweeves
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What is Magmi?
- Magmi is a Magento Mass Importer developed as a magento DATABASE client, (ie not a magento extension) , that operates directly in SQL and is the result of a deep analysis of the Magento Database Model. The first Magmi goal was catalog import & update.
- It can create products or update an existing catalog and deal with HUGE data (Millions of products could be managed by Magmi, but even above a few 1000’s , you’ll see the real difference with dataSlow).
Main Features:
- It provides decent speed compared to Dataflow (depending on server config & number of attributes, 70-100 rows/sec is standard magmi speed).
- It supports Dataflow export CSVs file & also some enhanced CSV syntax for dealing with custom options import & media gallery import.
- It works for multistore
- It supports remote image urls for image related attributes (in this case, speed is affected by image download)
- It also provides Generic SQL Datasource Plugin that enable getting data to be imported into magento from another legacy database instead of CSV.
- Can handle configurables (through configurables plugin)
- Support for related, cross relate, upsell & cross sell (from 0.7.11)
UI:
- Magmi provides a Web UI for configuration & running, however,it can be called via cli for automation.
Limitations:
- cannot handle downloable nor bundled product types yet.
Environment:
- PHP , to be deployed on magento server
- InnoDB tables compatibilty (using Transactions)
Compatiblity:
Magento 1.3.x,1.4.x,1.5.x (unless proven otherwise).
Documentation (Wiki) - to be updated
Sourceforge project Page (provides a download link for last release)
Magmi downloads (Plugins , Releases)
DISCLAIMER
- This tool has to be tested upon non production databases before being put into production and has to be used with CAUTION.
- Each new release should be tested the same manner.
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is this importer working with lastest Magento version (1.6.x)?
yes, it is working like a charm – without any doubt.
Magmi is the fastest importer for Magento.
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