Importing from Plausible

A site’s history comes over from Plausible’s export, a zip of CSV files.

In Plausible, open the site’s settings, then Imports & Exports, and choose Export to CSV. Plausible sends you a zip of CSV files. In fivebar, open Import in the site’s settings, choose the zip, or up to 20 of the CSV files in it, and press Import.

An upload can be up to 1 GB. An export bigger than that, or than fivebar reads at once, can come over in parts: its visitors and pages files first, then the rest, which are added to the import of the same export. An export made before April 2024 has no pageviews by page, source and the rest, and is refused: export again from Plausible.

fivebar reads each file in date order, as Plausible writes it, so a file whose lines go back to an earlier day is refused, naming the line.