Add Token-specific Metadata
Here we will explain different methods to add metadata to your tokens
Here we will explain different methods to add metadata to your tokens
After to your project, you want to add metadata that is unique for every single token, like custom traits etc. In NMKR Studio, we have different workarounds to accomplish that.
Please make sure that the placeholder.csv is always the last file that is uploaded to the project or it won't apply correctly for all tokens of the project. If you add tokens or subfiles afterwards, please make sure to upload the placeholder.csv again afterwards and after deleting the old placeholder.csv file from the server.
If you used Hashlips to create your images and metadata, this following video can be very helpful to split your json and make it fitting for Cardano.
You can add metadata values to the NFT in the edit section of the token using the user interface. Each that was can then be specified by in the placeholder data tab in the . This is the easiest way to add custom metadata fields to your tokens, but it is also not suitable to add metadata for a higher number of tokens.
If you want to add not only custom fields and values to your token but a complete metadata code to your token, please use the .
This is probably the easiest way to upload metadata to your tokens in bulk. This method allows you to upload a sheet that contains values for each token and each that was previously specified in the by simply adding them with a spreadsheet-software like Excel or Google sheets.
The first step to use this method is to . Each field will later be a column in your spreadsheet.
The next step is to template of your project, which will contain all the fields of your project's specified metadata template.
Open the placeholder.csv in a spreadsheet-software like excel of google sheets. The placeholder.csv template already contains all the and tokens that were uploaded to the project. You can now easily add all the custom values to the spreadsheet.
After you specified all the metadata in the spreadsheet you want to save the file named as "placeholder.csv". Please make sure that you export the file again as CSV with comma separated values. It can happen that users of the German version of Excel may have this file exported with semicolon separated values. This won't work. Please copy the spreadsheet to a new sheet created in and export it there.
The final step is to upload the edited placeholder.csv to your project. In order to do that, please use the or .
You can also use the to add JSON files to your project. Many projects have their image files exported together with a .json file that contains all the metadata that belongs to each token. You will need to split them into single .json files for each individual token, if you used . Please make sure that your JSON is in the and it contains all the values you specified as .
Before you upload the JSON via drag and drop to the project folder on the you have to rename them from ".json" to ".metadata" or ".metadatacip68" if you are using . This can be easily done with bulk renamer tools, there are plenty of it and the most are free versions. The newly renamed ".metadata" can only match and add metadata to the token, if it is named correctly. If your tokens is "0001" you want to rename the belonging "file.json" to "0001.metadata". The metadata can only be added after the token was uploaded.
