The command-line interface

Since version 4.0 and using TYPO3 CMS 8 and above, a command-line interface to External Import is available. It can be used to run a single synchronization or all of them (in order of increasing priority).

Calling path/to/php path/to/bin/typo3 externalimport:sync --list will output a list of all configurations available for synchronization.

Synchronizing everything is achieved by calling: path/to/php path/to/bin/typo3 externalimport:sync --all.

Finally a single configuration can be synchronized by calling: path/to/php path/to/bin/typo3 externalimport:sync --table=foo --index=bar.