How to bulk import text information from URLs?

Using the CSV Import plugin, I can successfully create items with metadata. I can pass URLs to the JPG images and these import fine.
I also have transcribed text that I want to display with the images and hope to import via either a metadata field or description.
However, Omeka displays the text as a thumbnail instead of importing the .txt content directly into the field. Is this possible? I have hundreds of files to import, all with transcribed text ready to accompany each image.
Thanks -
Sam

Hi,

Insert your text in a cell of your spreadsheet and import it as any other data. If you choose the item type "Text", you will be able to use the "Text" field.

Sincerely,

Daniel Berthereau
Infodoc & Knowledge management

Sorry I was not clear on the issue. I have hundreds of short paragraphs in .txt files available via a link/URL such as doc123.txt. I can easily enter sequenced URLs into a CSV, but instead of the text content being presented as text, it is shown in a preview 'image'. If one clicks on the image of text, the actual text is shown as I want. I'm hoping to have the plain text display instead of the generated thumbnail of it. Thanks.

Hi,

So this is not a issue of CsvImport, because it imports all files as File
and doesn't care about content, and only creates a thumbnail with this content. So you can change your theme to not display the thumbnail, but the content.

Sincerely,

Daniel Berthereau
Infodoc & Knowledge management

Yes, that would solve my issue.

If there is a resource/reference you can point me to on that approach I would appreciate it. My PHP skills are minimal but with some documentation I can accomplish quite a bit.

Thank you.

Hi,

Find the items/show.php of your theme and replace:

$file = get_current_record('file');
if ($file->hasThumbnail()):
    echo file_markup($file,array('imageSize'=>'fullsize'));
endif;

by

$file = get_current_record('file');
$uriFile = $file->getWebPath('original');
echo file_get_contents($uriFile);

Sincerely,

Daniel Berthereau
Infodoc & Knowledge management

THANK YOU!
I'll work on this tonight.

I spoke too soon. Cannot find that code anywhere.
The closest I found was located at this path:

/public_html/ngadeeds/omeka-2.2.2/themes/default/items/show.php

<!-- The following returns all of the files associated with an item. -->
<?php if (metadata('item', 'has files')): ?>
<div id="itemfiles" class="element">
    <h3><?php echo __('Files'); ?></h3>
    <?php if (get_theme_option('Item FileGallery') == 1): ?>
    <div class="element-text"><?php echo item_image_gallery(); ?></div>
    <?php else: ?>
    <div class="element-text"><?php echo files_for_item(); ?></div>
    <?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

I finally found a solution that works and am posting in case others find it useful. In this case, I wanted the text from the linked file to appear in the browse items page.
To this code...

<?php if ($description = metadata('item', array('Dublin Core', 'Description'), array('snippet'=>250))): ?>

I added this:

<?php $deed = file_get_contents($description);
	echo $deed; ?>

$deed being a temporary variable I created to echo with. I suspect variations of this are needed depending on other pages source.

Can these contents be automatically entered into a field (such as text/description), so that they become searchable.