How to import CSV data in Metabase

Metabase doesn’t natively allow to load data directly from CSV files, but that can be fixed with a plugin and some resilience, check it out

Metabase is one of the best tools for quick and intuitive data exploration and visualization. It allows you to answer questions related to your data pretty handily and in just a few steps, provided you have it in a compatible format.

Do you use Metabase for answering questions about your data or implementing your analytics solution? Have you ever tried to load directly CSV files to your server? Yeah, that’s not possible right out of the bat on this platform. However, that can be done with a plugin and it’s pretty easy, I’ll show you below.

1. Download the latest release of the CSV plugin from this GitHub repository, thanks to GitHub user “Markenson”.
2. Put the .jar file (that’s the one that matters the most) in “yourmeatabasefolder\plugins\” and start (or restart) your Metabase application.
3. Open your Metabase app, as usual, go to Settings and under Add Database, you’ll see this new option: CSV.