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How to import character data from local files

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I'm sure many of us have third party character management tools that we use to keep all our numbers straight. And it's great that Roll20 has large library of character forms for a large number of systems. Many character management tools have methods to export data as CSV or XML formats. I was just wondering if Roll20 has a function to import data from said text files so I don't have to do a bunch of tedious re-typing. Is that documented anywhere? And what formats does Roll20 prefer to import from? CSV, XML, something else?
Roll20 has no import feature from third party products. It is achievable through the api but is dependent on the sheet. For example the Pathfinder 1E sheet created by the community has an xml parser that supports character imported from Herolabs. It is not ideal and results may vary but is very handy. Any of the Official Character sheets created by Roll20 will not have this. 
There is a suggestion for this, but given the variety of sheets and systems, keeping two technical systems in sync would be difficult. It's here if you want to add your vote: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1268471/import-slash-export-characters" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1268471/import-slash-export-characters</a>
Yes, its very impotent
Rabulias said: There is a suggestion for this, but given the variety of sheets and systems, keeping two technical systems in sync would be difficult. It's here if you want to add your vote: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1268471/import-slash-export-characters" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1268471/import-slash-export-characters</a> Yes, I upvoted and commented in that thread a few times, which by this point about four or five years old. I re-opened the subject here in hopes that someone else had written some workarounds I was unaware of. I suppose the Pathfinder/PCGen script can be looked at, if I were motivated enough to write my own solution. &nbsp;