How to upload multiple documents with multiple JSON files to Cloudant DB via cURL?

So you definitely want to use Cloudant's _bulk_docs API endpoint in this scenario. It's more efficient (and cost-effective) if you're doing a bunch of writes. You basically POST an array that contains all your JSON docs. Here's the documentation on it: https://docs.cloudant.com/document.html#bulk-operations

Going one step further, so long as you've structured your JSON file properly, you can just upload the file to _bulk_docs. In cURL, that would look something like this: curl -X POST -d @file.json <domain>/db/_bulk_docs ... (plus the content type and all that other verbose stuff).

One step up from that would be using the ccurl (CouchDB/Cloudant cURL) tool that wraps your cURL statements to Cloudant and makes them less verbose. See https://developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/2015/10/19/command-line-tools-for-cloudant-and-couchdb/ from https://stackoverflow.com/users/4264864/glynn-bird for more.

Happy Couching!

You can create a for loop and create documents from each JSON file.

For example, in the command below I have 4 JSON files in my directory and I create 4 documents in my people database:

for file in *.json> do> curl -d @$file https://username:password@myinstance.cloudant.com/people/ -H "Content-Type:application/json"> done{"ok":true,"id":"763a28122dad6c96572e585d56c28ebd","rev":"1-08814eea6977b2e5f2afb9960d50862d"}{"ok":true,"id":"763a28122dad6c96572e585d56c292da","rev":"1-5965ef49d3a7650c5d0013981c90c129"}{"ok":true,"id":"763a28122dad6c96572e585d56c2b49c","rev":"1-fcb732999a4d99ab9dc5462593068bed"}{"ok":true,"id":"e944282beaedf14418fb111b0ac1f537","rev":"1-b20bcc6cddcc8007ef1cfb8867c2de81"}