Windows Live Product Search Contribution Support Thread

[batteryman]

Hello,

I am glad to see that you made the MSN Product Live. I was manually having to modify the output of your Google Feeder to get the correct feed style for MSN.

I really appreciate it. I made a small contribution for your efforts. Its all I could afford at the the moment.

Thank you
avel

[batteryman]

Hey Numinix

Just setup the mod and it output was excellent.

Thank you,

Just curious when do you think you will be tackling Yahoo Shopping? Just a thought. I could send you links about what they need which like I said before isn't much different from what you already have. I could send you information if you were interested.

[numinix]

They are a pay service correct?

The next mod I will be developing is the Auction Lister Attributes module which is a general mod for storing auction specific data in the products table for use in future and existing modules (i.e. eBay category, etc). Once that is complete, I have been hired privately to complete an Amazon mod which will then be released publicly thanks to the gracious supporter. And then I will complete the long awaited eBid module that I have been talking about for quite some time.

Yahoo, and other shopping comparison sites have no direct interest to me which is why I haven't given them priority. Although I do get some donations thanks to a few members, such as yourself, the mods are written 95% out of my interest to write them for my own Zen Cart store, Numinix.com. That said, I am capable to create those mods and will get to them eventually :)

[BlessIsaacola]

The output was fine but I got this error when I tried to upload to live product search "Catalog rejected: Not in the expected XML format.
Correct the format, and then try your upload again. Learn more about catalog formats "

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[numinix]

Send me your feed file to webmaster AT numinix DOT com

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

[BlessIsaacola]

Send me your feed file to webmaster AT numinix DOT com

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

I sent you the feed file, if you did not get it because it's too big please let me know and I will resend.

Thanks!

[BlessIsaacola]

Send me your feed file to webmaster AT numinix DOT com

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

Did you get the file I emailed you? I am still unable to upload my file. Thanks!

[numinix]

The following is taken from the Live Product Upload help file concerning the missing images:

Product images don't display correctly

Images of your products may not display correctly on Live Product Search after you successfully register with Windows Live Product Upload Beta and publish a catalog. This problem may occur if you or your Internet service provider use a robots.txt file to block robots from crawling your website. This blocks the MSNBOT user-agent from crawling the directory that contains the images of your products.

To allow the MSNBOT user-agent to crawl your website, add the following lines of text to the end of your robots.txt file:

User-agent: msnbotDisallow:

[numinix]

Did you get the file I emailed you? I am still unable to upload my file. Thanks!

Send it again [email protected]