Bulk Adding of cards/sets for contributors

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As a contributor I would love to add cards to the database but doing so one card at a time is extremely tedious especially considering sets nowadays each card has multiple color variations, as well as autos (each with multiple colors), inserts (with colors), etc.  I checked 2020 Prizm WNBA and without doing precise calculations, it was at least 2500+ cards.  I just checked the Beckett XLSX file for Panini Select Football [1] that comes out this week, and its over 21,500 cards.  That would take forever to do individually. 

I would suggest creating an import utility that can pull in a CSV, which could be easily generated from the checklist XLSX files that are on the Beckett.com for each of the products released.  Given the standard format of those XLSX checklists, it would be relatively easy to parse those files and depending on how the API's are written to pull data from the web form into the database, I would imaging it would be easy to pull the exact same data that someone would manually be inputting on the web form from these XSLX checklists converted to a CSV.

Creating such a utility would enable contributors to quickly build up the database, which would be highly beneficial for baseball, as well as keeping up with all of the new releases.

[1] https://beckett-www.s3.amazonaws.com/news/news-content/uploads/2021/04/2020-Select-Football-Checklist.xlsx

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Anonymous

Basically all sets from 2000-2015 basketball and football have little to no cards

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mister_insert
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Basically all sets from 2000-2015 basketball and football have little to no cards

I've been thinking about this lately and it's caused some frustrations quite a few times. Most of it is the the Panini takeover of older brands. Take Donruss for example. I have no idea if it's "Donruss" or "Panini Donruss". I really feel like the lists should be consolidated or the separation criteria defined better. 


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