Uploading user profile picture via CSV user importing

Eduardo Silva

Hi y'all,

I'm currently developing an extension to the user .csv importing plugin.

It already allows group memberships during creation.

Now, I'm trying to upload the profile picture as well.

My first approach was to host all images in an external service (Airtable, S3, etc), and put the link in the .csv used to importing users.

This didn't work because the uploadCroppedPictureFile expects a locally accessible path, not a URL.

Can you think of an alternative solution that would allow the picture to be imported via .csv?

I'm still learning the codebase I would love some hints.

<baris>

Since you already have the picture url on a different system you can just set the user.picture field to it and it should work I think.
Instead of calling await User.uploadCroppedPictureFile(uploadData) try await User.setUserField(user.uid, 'picture', user.profile_picture_url)

julian

Hi @Eduardo-Silva — what hook does updateProfilePicture listen for, the one sent by the import-users-csv plugin?

If you already have a URL, it's probably easiest to just call user.updateProfile with the picture property.

Keep in mind for the updateProfile call, you have to pass in ['picture'] to the third argument.

Eduardo Silva

Tks so much, @baris and @julian!

The await User.setUserField(user.uid, 'picture', user.profile_picture_url) approach worked!

Yes, @julian, it's listening to the import-users-csv plugin hook.

As soon as I finish the plugin I'll make a proper post announcing and explaining it.