Hi,

I'm Pre-uploading images and trying to import them directly from the library but keep getting the same error: "Failed to get the file object for FILENAME.jpg"

What is the path to the file am I meant to be putting the CSV? I've tried everything: public://filename.jpg, sites/default/files/filename.jpg, http://... etc etc etc.

Also tried all module releases.

Please help!!!

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Niklas Fiekas’s picture

Niklas Fiekas commented

Hi. "From the library" means there is already an entry in the database. Have you tried using media_internet with public:// URLs instead?

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StG commented
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Hello,

I have been strugling with this issue for a while too. I installed Media Feeds in order to import videos from a youtube channel which works fine. Before that I could use (in an other importer) pre-uploaded images with public://path/filename.jpg syntax in CSV-iporter but now I get only error messages: If I map the image field as 'media_internet', I get the 'Unable to handle the provided embed string or URL' message. If I use 'by filename from library' mapper, I get the above-mentioned 'Failed to get the file object for FILENAME.jpg' message.

So it seems to me that Media Feeds makes impossible to import files from CSV which would be a terribel conclusion for me because I have to maintain a database of employees through CSV-import in a recent project. Any help would be really-really appreciated!

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kreynen commented

Before you jump to conclusions conflicts between media_feeds and CSVs, can you manually create a node using the URL in the CSV? The 'Unable to handle the provided embed string or URL' error is coming from Media when it encounters a URL pattern that none of the media_[provider] modules enabled for the field can match. You can see where that gets called in the code here...

http://cgit.drupalcode.org/media_feeds/tree/media_feeds.module#n182

One option to use https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds_media_internet_files to populate the File Entities directly. I wrote this module after #1033202: [Meta] Generic entity processor finally got committed to Feeds (still only in the dev snapshot). Instead of the process Media Feeds uses to map fields to a Node and create a File Entity with the minimum fields, feeds_media_internet_files corrects problems with dealing with the media_[provider] URLs. All other fields are mapped directly to the entity.

In most use cases we use this with, an additional lookup is run on the entity_presave that maps an entity back to the node and populates the file field on the node. Like the YouTube Lookup module in https://www.drupal.org/project/cm_vod_feed. That module will parse the tags on YouTube video for matching nids, but this could just as easily be done using Media Feed's "From the library" option on a second import after creating the file entities with feeds_media_internet_files.