diff --git a/db/Seed.js b/db/Seed.js
index 6ddbdec..88da143 100644
--- a/db/Seed.js
+++ b/db/Seed.js
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 const { Client } = require('pg');
+const insertAll = require('./util/insertAll');
 require('dotenv').config({ path: "../.env" });
 
 async function main() {
     console.log("Beginning database setup.");
 
     const client = new Client({ connectionString: process.env.CONNECTION });
+    console.log(process.env.CONNECTION);
     await client.connect().then(console.log("Now connected to postgres"));
 
     // user
@@ -70,6 +72,10 @@ async function main() {
         );
     `;
 
+    // const populateProductTable = `
+    //     \copy products(name, regionid, categoryid, price, inventory, unit, description) FROM './data/products.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER
+    // `;
+
     // products_carts
     const createProductsCarts = `
         CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS products_carts (
@@ -89,7 +95,12 @@ async function main() {
         );
     `;
 
-    const allQueries = [createUserTable, createCartTable, createCategoryTable, createRegionTable, createProductTable, createOrderTable, createProductsCarts, createProductsOrders];
+    const allQueries = [
+        createUserTable, createCartTable, createCategoryTable, createRegionTable,
+        createProductTable, /* populateProductTable, */ createOrderTable,
+        createProductsCarts, createProductsOrders
+    ];
+
     let status;
 
     try {
diff --git a/db/util/insertAll.js b/db/util/insertAll.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba10fd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/util/insertAll.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+const { readFileSync } = require('fs');
+
+// insertFromCSV('./data/products.csv');
+
+module.exports = (path) => {
+    return readFileSync(path)
+        .toString()
+        .split('\n')
+        .map(s => s.trim())
+        .map(s => s.split(',').map(s => s.trim()));
+}
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diff --git a/db/util/insert_file_contents.py b/db/util/insert_file_contents.py
index 0849c2f..6c15439 100644
--- a/db/util/insert_file_contents.py
+++ b/db/util/insert_file_contents.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import csv
+import psycopg2
 from psycopg2 import sql
 
 # function to read from a given csv file into postgres
diff --git a/db/util/main.py b/db/util/main.py
index b3751e4..a289432 100644
--- a/db/util/main.py
+++ b/db/util/main.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import psycopg2
 import os
 
 # read data from environment if present
+supabase_string = os.getenv('CONNECTION')
+
 env_path = "../../.env"
 fd = os.open(env_path, os.O_RDONLY)
 n = 300
diff --git a/db/util/parseOutput.js b/db/util/parseOutput.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1068bfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/util/parseOutput.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+const insertAll = require('./insertAll');
+const pgp = require('pg-promise')({ capSQL: true });
+
+const parseOutput = (arr, tableName) => {
+    let i = 0;
+    let data;
+    let cols = null
+
+    for (let row of arr) {
+        if (i == 0) {
+            cols = row;
+            i++;
+        } else {
+            if (cols == null) {
+                cols = row;
+            } else {
+                data.concat(row);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    let query = pgp.helpers.insert(data, cols, tableName);
+    console.log(query);
+}
+
+parseOutput(insertAll('./data/products.csv'), 'products');
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