# 📺 New screencast: How to import data into Kirby

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/new-screencast-how-to-import-data-into-kirby/31500>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/new-screencast-how-to-import-data-into-kirby/31500 "2024-04-30T18:03:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![bastianallgeier](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/bastianallgeier/32/7569_2.png) [@bastianallgeier](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/bastianallgeier)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/new-screencast-how-to-import-data-into-kirby/31500/1 "2024-04-30T18:03:03Z")

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📺 For today’s Tutorial Tuesday, we are creating our first custom Kirby CLI command to import data into Kirby:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nWa_cmbuxLw/maxresdefault.jpg "How to import data into Kirby") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWa_cmbuxLw)

In this case, we are importing our Mastodon feed via API and create a page for every post. But you can totally apply the same method to read records from a database or any other data source and create pages, files, users and more.

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**Author:** ![luxuryluke](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/luxuryluke/32/3701_2.png) [@luxuryluke](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/luxuryluke)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/new-screencast-how-to-import-data-into-kirby/31500/2 "2024-05-03T04:27:38Z")

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