Main menu From MySQL to MailChimp via CSV Don't you hate disclaimers? I do, but before I do anything else, I must ask that you don't use the techniques below unless you are emailing responsibly. Today I needed to pull email addresses for people who had signed up to a thing out of MySQL and into MailChimp so that I could actually email them about the thing. MySQL actually has a very cute feature for exporting the results of an SQL query as a CSV file, which I had to look up to remember how to do it. It goes something like this: By default, this is actually a tab-separated file rather than technically a comma-separated one, but there's some excellent documentation on how to denote the different fields and lines if you need a different format. I found that the defaults emitted by my server (which is probably mostly vanilla settings) were digested perfectly easily by mailchimp. If you need to create a CSV file from MySQL by exporting the results of a query - then I hope this post helps! If you have any additional tips, do leave a comment.