# Import strings

> A small guide shared as one line of text: paste it into Import and it joins your guide menu.

Page: https://polestar.guide/docs/players/import-strings (Polestar docs > Players)

A small guide, such as a quest chain, an item, a mount or an errand, can
come as an **import string** instead of an addon: one line of text its
author shares on Discord, GitHub or a forum. Nothing to install.

1. Open **Import** at the foot of the hub's left rail, just above Options
   (`/polestar import`).
2. Paste the string into the box. Polestar reads it and shows what it
   holds before anything is saved: "Cozy Sleeping Bag · by Yendi · 14
   steps · levels 30–40 · Alliance and Horde · CC-BY-4.0".
3. Press **Import**. The guide is in the guide menu under **Community
   guides**, in the entry **Imported**, credited to its author: "By Yendi ·
   Imported · CC-BY-4.0". It stays imported on every character of your
   account.

- **To update it**, paste the newer string: the button reads **Update**,
  and your progress stays where the guide's steps did not change.
- **To remove it**, press **Delete** on its row under **Your imported
  guides** (twice: the second click confirms).
- A string Polestar cannot read, one that is too big, or one holding a guide
  Polestar refuses is turned down with the reason, and nothing is saved.
- Polestar never suggests an imported guide on its own: you pick it.

An import string is data, never code: Polestar reads the guide out of it
field by field and runs nothing in it, so it cannot do anything a guide
cannot. As with a community addon, Polestar does not test or vouch for the
guide; report its problems to its author.

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