Basic example to import Products and their variants into Craft Commerce

import.php

<?php
namespace Craft;

// This file could be placed into your public_html folder and visited to import a cheese product.

$craft = require '../craft/app/bootstrap.php';

$craft->plugins->loadPlugins();

$newProduct = new Commerce_ProductModel();

$newProduct->typeId = 1; // Replace with product type ID;
$newProduct->enabled = true;
$newProduct->promotable = true;
$newProduct->freeShipping = 0;
$newProduct->postDate = new DateTime();
$newProduct->taxCategoryId = craft()->commerce_taxCategories->getDefaultTaxCategory()->id;
$newProduct->getContent()->title = "Cheese";
$newProduct->slug = StringHelper::toKebabCase("Cheese");

// Product custom fields
// $product->setContentFromPost(array('customFieldName'=>'value'));

$variant = new Commerce_VariantModel();
$variant->setProduct($newProduct);
$variant->sortOrder = 1;
$variant->getContent()->title = "Cheese";
$variant->sku = "10101";
$variant->price = "10";
$variant->unlimitedStock = true;

$newProduct->setVariants([$variant]);

if(craft()->commerce_products->saveProduct($newProduct)){
    echo "done";
}else{
    $errors = $newProduct->getAllErrors();
    foreach ($errors as $error) {
        echo $error;
        echo "<br>";
    }
    foreach ($newProduct->getVariants() as $variant) {
        $errors = $variant->getAllErrors();
        foreach ($errors as $error) {
            echo $error;
            echo "<br>";
        }
    }

};

$craft->end();

Hi, nice piece of code! Question. What do I do wrong when i get this message:
Internal server error "Craft\Commerce_ProductModel.authorId" is not defined.

@pixeldeluxe unlike entries, authorId is not a part of the product model, so I removed it from the code above.

@lukeholder Tnx for the fix.
How should I use this script to import 800 products? And how do I set custom fields. The above row isn't working when I unquote it. Tnx in advance.

I may be wrong but i think line 32 is not needed here as line 25 is already setting the product onto the variant.
If you look into the $product->setVariants() method its just calling $variant->setProduct() internally.

Line 17 doesn't work anymore. Replacing it with $newProduct->taxCategoryId = craft()->commerce_taxCategories->getDefaultTaxCategory()->id; fixes it.