Automatic encoding rooms

#1

Hi indico users and admins,

Starting the installation of indico from the beginning for my institution, I would like to know if there is an automatic method to add buildings and rooms from a csv file. Let’s say we have ~100 rooms, I would like to avoid using the IU and the mouse.
Should I use indico shell, fill the PostgreSQL DB directly …
Do you have a suggestion?

Thanks

Juan

#2

you could use the same API used by the UI if it’s a one-time thing. just copy the session and csrf tokens from the browser and send the http requests using a library like requests in python.

or you could use indico shell to create Room instances and add them to the correct Location. that’s a good choice if it’s not a one-time thing since you can re-run the script. FWIW, at CERN we use a custom plugin to sync rooms regularly; if you have some central database you could adapt our plugin for it.

#3

Thanks!

It is one-time thing so I will see how to use the API but I will keep in mind the plugin.

#4

the easiest way to find out what to send is creating one room manually and using your browser’s devtools to see what data is sent when saving it