Import KMZ folder using script

Question

Good afternoon,

Apparently ESRI does not have the time for me and redirected me to ask this question on this board.

Does anyone know of a script for importing KMZ folders?

Thank you

danretired · Answer

a python basic... use raw encoding to format strings ( r"...." )

# -- needs encoding
a = "O:\Active Projects\New Braunfels\01_Project KMZ Files\2013"
  Cell In[4], line 1
    a = "O:\Active Projects\New Braunfels\01_Project KMZ Files\2013"
                                                                    ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 18-19: malformed \N character escape

a = r"O:\Active Projects\New Braunfels\01_Project KMZ Files\2013"

b = r"H:\GIS PROJECTS\PROPOSALS\Enviromental 2023 Tom\Enviromental 2023 Locations\Enviromental 2023 Locations.gdb"
Locations\Enviromental 2023 Locations.gdb"
a
'O:\Active Projects\New Braunfels\01_Project KMZ Files\2013'
b
'H:\GIS PROJECTS\PROPOSALS\Enviromental 2023 Tom\Enviromental 2023 Locations\Enviromental 2023 Locations.gdb'

Brucemartin · Answer

Good day, used this:

import arcpy
arcpy.intelligence.BatchImportData("O:\Active Projects\New Braunfels\01_Project KMZ Files\2013", "H:\GIS PROJECTS\PROPOSALS\Enviromental 2023 Tom\Enviromental 2023 Locations\Enviromental 2023 Locations.gdb", "kml", "SUBFOLDERS", "NO_GROUNDOVERLAY")

am getting this:

Traceback (most recent call last)
File C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Lib\ast.py, in parse:
Line 50:    return compile(source, filename, mode, flags,

SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 18-19: malformed \N character escape (<string>, line 2)

danretired · Answer

Batch Import Data (AllSource)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

it will import kmz files within a folder, but if you have multiple folders to parse, it may have to be scripted