Appends a file upload input to the screen. When you upload a csv file, it will create a user for each row in the csv file and give each one of them a uuid() for a password. By default it assumes the order of First Name, Last Name, Email, and Company but this is configurable in the first 4 lines of the gist. At the end it tells you the number of …

CSV to Meteor Users

var EMAIL_INDEX = 2,
    FIRSTNAME_INDEX = 0,
    LASTNAME_INDEX = 1,
    COMPANY_INDEX = 3;

$('#users').remove();
$('body').prepend('<input type="file" id="users" />');
$('#users').change(function () {
    var csv = new FileReader();

    csv.onload = function (e) {
        var errs = [],
            password = Meteor.uuid(),
            rows = e.target.result.trim().split('\n'),
            numDone = 0,
            total = rows.length;
        _.each(rows, function (r) {
            var d = r.split(',');
            (function () {
                var newUser = {
                    email: d[EMAIL_INDEX],
                    password: password,
                    profile: {
                        firstName: d[FIRSTNAME_INDEX],
                        lastName: d[LASTNAME_INDEX],
                        company: d[COMPANY_INDEX]
                    }
                };

                Accounts.createUser(newUser, function (err) {
                    numDone++;
                    if(err) {
                        errs.push({ error: err, user: newUser });
                    }
                    if(numDone >= total) {
                        console.log('Users Created:', total - errs.length);
                        console.log('Password: ', password);
                        if (errs.length)
                            console.log('errors encountered: ', errs);
                    }
                });
            })();
        });
    };
    csv.readAsText($(this)[0].files[0]);
});