Import Your Squarespace Website Pages in a Few Clicks with the Squarewebsites Website Importer

I believe you know about our SquarespaceWebsites Importer, which allows you to import/export different collections between Squarespace websites.

If not yet, here’s the link to the SquarespaceWebsites Importer (a.k.a. Chrome Extension Tool) and the video below will tell you how to import/export collections from one Squarespace website to another

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How to Import Gallery Collection from One Squarespace Website to Another

We added sqsToolsDataHook into an extension for advanced users. It fires after you get collection data and allows you to make different stuff.

Let's say you have a big gallery with over 250 images in it. There’s a way to upload more than 250 items into the gallery but there’s no way to easily edit them further. The problem is in the Squarespace widget list because it only queries 250 items for galleries and doesn't provide additional loading on a scroll or something.

So probably the best way is to convert such a big gallery to a blog collection because the Squarespace blog list widget supports loading more items on scroll. 

And this can be easily done with SquarespaceWebsites Importer. As result, you'll have a new collection with all images, categories, tags, and descriptions but now as a blog.

So sqsToolsDataHook checks for a function sqsToolsDataHook and executes it if find in the global window object. So the sqsToolsDataHook function needs to be defined from the console on the top window, it takes collection data object and needs to return it after custom modifying. 

The function for converting gallery collection to the blog will be: 

window.sqsToolsDataHook = function (coll_data) {
    if (coll_data.sqstp_collection.typeName == 'gallery') {
        coll_data.sqstp_collection.typeName = 'blog';
        coll_data.sqstp_collection.typeLabel = 'blog';
        if (coll_data.sqstp_items.results.length) {
            coll_data.sqstp_items.results.forEach(function (result, i) {
                result.recordType = 1;
                result.recordTypeLabel = 'text';
                result.title = result.title || 'Item-' + i; // Leave original image title or auto name
            })
        }
    }
    return coll_data;
};

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sqsToolsDataHook function defined

Now clone your gallery collection with Importer as usual and you will have new blog collection converted from gallery.

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