How to add csv datasource

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Hi,
I am New To metabase.
I just download metabase jar from the official website.—>https://www.metabase.com/start/jar.html

then i was able to access the browser page in the port 3000.during the time of admin account creation i didn’t add any database–>i just pressed i’ll add my data later.

after that i was able to access home page of metabase.

now i have few csv files in my local machine.but i don’t know how to upload csv data into metabase.I couldn’t find any option like add datasource in homepage.

can you help me out?

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CSV isn’t supported.
You need to upload the csv files to a database, then connect metabase to the database.

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There’s a third-party driver, which supports CSV-files as directories:
https://github.com/Markenson/csv-metabase-driver

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thanks for the response.well i will import in database and then will connect it with metabase.

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I can’t seem to use it. I wonder if any other alternatives available?

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@hendriarifin Why can’t you use it? Did you read the documentation on how to use it? There are many alternatives, such as loading CSV into a database source that Metabase supports, like BigQuery, Postgres etc.

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Hi Flamber, Im not so sure about the issue, so I converted the xlsx to SQLite instead.

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@hendriarifin Well CSV is not the same as XLSX, but great that you found a solution through SQLite.

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Hi, I'm using a docker container, and I followed the instructions on this link Release Adding HTTP support · Markenson/csv-metabase-driver · GitHub to install the extension. The database path exists, but the csv file does not appear. Could you help me?

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Hey @yoga_shri,
Not sure if CSV upload is still of interest, but wanted to let you know we just shipped this with Metabase 47. Hope it still comes in handy!