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Multiple Article Input As Single File

DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
edited November 4 in Need Help
Hi, Sven and GSA pplz....
I have a Q: 
Is there way to import multiple articles as a singe .txt file?
If not, would that make sense? Just use simple markers to show beginning and end of title and description block for each article and SER can populate? Does this already exist?
Thank you fir your time, friends!
P.S. For those who don't know me, I know what spintax is! I don't mean spintaxing X number of articles, but rather I mean for SER to iterate thru the one file and populate the slots in the Article Manager in Project Window with each article title followed by content that are listed in the file separated by some separator. :\  Just to clear that up and not waste anyone's time here. :relieved:

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  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    edited November 5
    There is one format that is used by SEO Content Machine and old Kontent Machine:

    article<tab>...\nline2\nline3....
    article_title<tab>...
    article_summary<tab>...
    article<tab>....\nline2\nline3....
    article_title<tab>...
    article_summary<tab>...


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  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    I was walking today and was wondering about existing APIs and formats for input from other programs. :) 

    Thank you, Sven. 
  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    One more question...If we leave summary field out, does it use SER's default? I never really thought about this field..hmm..
  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    edited November 4
    Hmm..I tried both ADD Article via SEO Content Machine Import and Kontent Machine. I tried it with all three fields included (article_summary= ), I tried it with only two (no article_summary= ), I tried output "Article Only" for each, I tried "Articles and Other Data" I get the same results with every test. (UTF-8 .txt file, contents below:)


    article=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    article_title=bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
    article_summary=ccccccccccccccccccc

    SER responds with "Sorry, but nothing could be filled."   :dizzy:


    also tried with those three entries doubled, as Sven provided an example of, just in case you can't import just a single article. :| Same results. Any suggestions, anyone?
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    Sorry, I was wrong. There must be a tab instead of a "=". 
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  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    Hi, Sven. :) Hope you've been well.

    Thank you for clearing that up.  I will test this now. :yum:

    I ran out the clock on testing this yesterday but I DLed SEO Content Machine so I can export a .txt and see how that program does it. I don't think I can find Kontent Machine to DL :( Maybe WayBack? . A video I watched show the program Kontent Machine and there seem to me delineators like "KM" followed by the string or content or what have you. I don't know if this is just part of the program and the output looks nothing like that when saved as a text file. Anyone remember these?
  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    edited November 6
    Thank you, Sven! That worked! :relieved:
    And, SER users who want to know, you can leave the summary field out and SER will use the standard macro to fill...

    I've read there are other parameters you can use to add other content. For example, I was prompted to select which (Articles+Other) but only articles were  provided as a choice by SER, while I had three parameters set. All were associated with Articles, though: the title, summary, and content.  So the other "types" of content I read briefly about are images and notes and more.

    Anyway, it seems this generated:

    <p>test-test-
    </p>

    The <p> and </p> are auto-generated. Isn't that going to get in the way? Or, am I wrong on that? These imported articles are for use with AI. And AI output is not with html tags <p> etc...just plaintext...so how can we turn that off or toggle? I hopefully am getting somewhere with this new project set-up. :|

  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    edited November 6
    Okay..It seems that you can reverse the order of title and article and SER still parses them as pairs. So, Title can go before or after, but IG once parsing begins one way you can't switch, ofc. :|

    The importer still add the <p>  </p> to the article, either way!! I guess this is default for some reason but @Sven can we have a toggle on that info-box, please? I think it makes sense.  

    Anyone who can explain otherwise, please do.  If this is okay to leave <p> and </p> at begin and end please tell me why I am not doing all my projects like this then.
  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas
    Also: Sven, when I import, SER first clears what articles I already have. I don't know if this is  necessary behavior needed for integration with other tools, but maybe we can get an uncheck box for this as well, default being checked [X] Delete, then populate  if it's important?
  • DeeeeeeeeDeeeeeeee the Americas

    @Sven, thanks kindly, for adding the html paragraph tag option checkbox! :yum:

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