RSS Feed + Google Base

speedingorange thank you for your reply. No I guess I haven't done that. Is there a thread or post somewhere that instructs on how to do that?

Did you have the RSS feed running before on a previous installation?

Its really simple anyhow,

Open the RSS file from the FTP side, or on your desktop.

there is a section at the top saying " configuration"

Just set the details as necessary,

the taxanomy one needs you to get the category for your store from this page http://www.google.com/basepages/product ... xonomy.txt

Dont forget, if you use a catagory with an & sybol, change it to &

Once everything is set, just upload it to your server

If you need anything ells just ask

speedingorange wrote:Did you have the RSS feed running before on a previous installation?

Its really simple anyhow,

Open the RSS file from the FTP side, or on your desktop.

there is a section at the top saying " configuration"

Just set the details as necessary,

the taxanomy one needs you to get the category for your store from this page http://www.google.com/basepages/product ... xonomy.txt

Dont forget, if you use a catagory with an & sybol, change it to &

Once everything is set, just upload it to your server

If you need anything ells just ask

No I didn't do all that I just had the basic plain google base feed module--copy the feed URL, paste into a browser, save that to a file on my desktop and then upload that using google merchant center.

speedingorange wrote:Did you have the RSS feed running before on a previous installation?

Its really simple anyhow,

Open the RSS file from the FTP side, or on your desktop.

there is a section at the top saying " configuration"

Just set the details as necessary,

the taxanomy one needs you to get the category for your store from this page http://www.google.com/basepages/product ... xonomy.txt

Dont forget, if you use a catagory with an & sybol, change it to &

Once everything is set, just upload it to your server

If you need anything ells just ask

And that's the problem, I can't open the RSS file to look at it. I get an error.

AH right,

Sorry I thought being in this thread it would be related to the RSS module which publishes the base feed automatically , I'm not sure in that case then sorry I cant be of more help

James

speedingorange wrote:AH right,

Sorry I thought being in this thread it would be related to the RSS module which publishes the base feed automatically , I'm not sure in that case then sorry I cant be of more help

James

No, that's my fault. This was the closest thread I could find so that's why I posted here. I do appreciate your help, though. I hope I can find the answer soon, I'm dead in the water until I do unfortunately.

try grabbing qphorias rss feed module, and using it. it saves time and may solve the problem?

speedingorange wrote:try grabbing qphorias rss feed module, and using it. it saves time and may solve the problem?

I suppose I could but...I just wonder why the module that was working just fine in earlier versions all of a sudden doesn't appear to be working.

Is there a way to downgrade and go back to an earlier version?

Well this thread was really meant for my RSS Google Base mod. If you are asking about the google base feed in the core, that hasn't changed. And since when has "But I can't seem to get my xxxxxxxx to work" ever helped anyone? how about some details of the problem.

Qphoria wrote:Well this thread was really meant for my RSS Google Base mod. If you are asking about the google base feed in the core, that hasn't changed. And since when has "But I can't seem to get my xxxxxxxx to work" ever helped anyone? how about some details of the problem.

Well, I beg to differ. I most certainly did give details, my feed now produces a 'white space' problem. I upgraded to 1.47 and the non-RSS feed that I was using does not work. I put the URL of my feed into my browser (I did state this earlier) and it CAN'T BE READ. Here, see if you can read it:

http://daysgonebyantiquesandcollectible ... oogle_base

The item in question has been in my inventory for a LONG time. The feed I was using before the upgrade did not produce this error. Now it does.

not sure where this all stands, but the problem with that feed appears to be that it does not convert & & in the title section.

No. The problem appears to be that you have whitespace here:
<g:mpn> </g:mpn>

Which means that you are just entering spaces for your model numbers

If you are going to do that then you need to make this change:

1. EDIT: catalog/controller/feed/google_base.php

2. FIND: 3. REPLACE WITH: Tho that might only trim the spaces on the outside, maybe try
str_replace(' ', '', $product['model']) instead if trim doesn't work completely.

Hi Q,

I have installed Google Base but it doesn't show the Taxes even if i set:
$useTax = true; //Show Prices with Tax

The price is showed with tax if i add tax in title, but not in the price tag. There it's still without taxes.

Thanks for your support!

I am currently having a slight issue with the RSS + Google base mod.

Everything is working fine part from an issue coming up in the ‘data quality’ tab of the google merchant centre.
It says I have missing identifiers on 100% of my products.
On the google listings the BRAND is showing correct, the info I have in the OC ‘Model’ is showing up in the Mpn field (I guess this is correct also).

I cant see what is making them say the identifiers are missing. Any ideas?

Any help appreciated

Simon

Hi, I am using Q module for RSS feed. However my product feed can't be submitted to google merchant center. I keep getting this message. I clearly do not know how to solve this. Thank you in advance
my link http://www.trend2style.com

Data feeds >
Feed status summary for data_feed.xml
0 of 50 items inserted - Processed on Oct 30, 2010 12:16 am MYT
Destinations: Product Ads, Product Search

Detected file format: XML
Item Errors - 50 items with errors 50 items affected
50
Invalid attribute: price (50 errors)

The value you provided for the attribute is invalid.
Examples: Examples:
Item Nr. Line Nr.
4 124
8 240
10 300
22 681
36 1,107

mayor21 wrote: Invalid attribute: price (50 errors)

Seems pretty clear the error.

And the reason:
http://base.google.com/support/bin/answ ... swer=25290

ahh, that's the reason why. i had my product submitted before for past a few months without problem, this month i got the message. Thanks a lot Q for the quick reply!

Just to say, I had Q's original RSS MOD installed on a 1.3.4 site a while back & hadn't checked it for a while, only to find it was now malfunctioning. I downloaded the most recent updated file @Q's site & now all appears to be working fine again

Can only imagine part of the new code is more compatible with possible changes over @Google.

Everything was working fine as in the products were automatically showing up in the GOOGLE BASE feed from the rss.php page.

NOW IT DOES NOT WORK AT ALL. I know Google has changed there format around SEPTEMBER and once they did this the feed stopped working. Does anyone have an update on how to get my feed working again for 1.4.7. I don't want to have to upgrade my entire cart or buy another google base mod. PLEASE HELP

My website is
www.prodjsupply.com
My email attached to the feed is prodjsupply@gmail.com

here are the errors i am getting from Google Base
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Missing required attribute: availability (3241 errors, only affecting Product Search, Search API for Shopping)

Please make sure you include all required attributes in your data feed.
Examples:
Item ID Line Nr.
4000 7 Show Item
3997 225 Show Item
3993 486 Show Item
3984 954 Show Item
3982 1,093 Show Item
Item too big (16 errors)

Your feed contains items which have too many attributes, or are too big. These items will be dropped. Learn more.
Examples:
Show Item
Show Item
Show Item
Show Item
Show Item
Item Warnings 3245 items affected
Missing recommended attribute: google product category (3241 warnings)

While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples:
Item ID Line Nr.
3992 597 Show Item
3978 1,345 Show Item
3976 1,505 Show Item
3975 1,585 Show Item
3974 1,605 Show Item
Missing recommended attribute: brand (3 warnings)

While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples:
Item ID Line Nr.
3997 225 Show Item
3964 2,231 Show Item
3901 6,411 Show Item
Missing recommended attribute: image link (1 warning)

While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples:
Item ID Line Nr.
2842 129,353 Show Item

Hey Q

Is the RSS mod compatible with 1.5.x?

Firetrap