I had a user contact me who is having trouble importing email lists created by Email List Scraper into PHPlist so I decided I’d make a tutorial for everyone to benefit from.

First things first, we need to prepare the file for import:

 

• Once you’ve got a list you like, Export to TXT.
• Open the text file in TextEdit or another text editor.
• You will be presented with a list of email addresses.
• Make sure the first line of the file reads “email” (without quotes) so that it looks like this:

Now that you’ve properly prepared the list, you’ll want to open up PHPlist and go into the admin control panel. Once you’re into the admin control, you’ll want to find the import section:

 

Once you’ve entered the import section, you’ll want to click the “import emails with different values for attributes” link:

 

The last step in importing is selecting the text file you’ve exported and edited and uploading it:

 

Click Import and: