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# algolia dictionary entries import

> Import dictionary entries from a file to the specified index.

```txt Usage theme={"system"}
algolia dictionary entries import <dictionary> -F <file> [--wait] [--continue-on-errors] [flags]
```

## Examples

Import entries from the "entries.ndjson" file to the "stopwords" dictionary:

```sh icon=square-terminal theme={"system"}
algolia dictionary import stopwords -F entries.ndjson
```

Import entries from the "entries.ndjson" file to the "plurals" dictionary and continue importing entries even if some entries are invalid:

```sh icon=square-terminal theme={"system"}
algolia dictionary import plurals -F entries.ndjson --continue-on-errors
```

## Flags

<ParamField body="-C, --continue-on-error">
  Continue importing entries even if some entries are invalid.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="--dry-run">
  Validate and preview the import request without sending it
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="-F, --file">
  Read entries to import from `file` (use "-" to read from standard input)
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="-w, --wait">
  Wait for the operation to complete before returning
</ParamField>

## Output formatting flags

<ParamField body="--allow-missing-template-keys">
  If true, ignore errors in templates due to missing fields or map keys. This only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="-o, --output">
  Output format. One of: (json, jsonl, ndjson, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="--template">
  Template string or path to a template file to use when --output=jsonpath, --output=jsonpath-file.
</ParamField>