Writing Import Scripts

Take a source of data like a spreadsheet and import it into PlaceOS using the REST API.

The advantage of writing a script is that you can update multiple aspects of the system at once, ensure consistency and ideally allow running multiple times as data changes.

These are some example scripts: https://github.com/place-labs/scripted-imports

A simple way of providing data to your scripts that we recommend is by publishing google sheets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKmnhbrUWs