Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[magneteye]

Question about this mod:

Which version should I use for ZC version 1.3.7? Can I use the latest or do I need another version?

Thank you!

[fvb]

I just got it working with the following:

GET 'http://www.values-galore.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes&type=products' > /dev/null 2>&1

I found this on the forum at http://www.numinix.com/forum

I just got around to playing with the cron jobs, and you are right, this one works
thanks

[countrycharm]

This is a post from numinix web site about running cron jobs.

powerhour
So you want to manually have your base feed ftp to Google Base? Well, it doesn't work on GoDaddy's shared hosting accounts due to limitations. However, just login to google base and setup a scheduled fetch of your product feed.
Enter the URL location of the feed: https://www.powerhourstore.com/feed/domain_products.xml

It pretty much accomplishes the same tasks. It's auto-pilot!

Response from numinix powerhour, that is really great information. I didn't know Google was now offering that service. I would definitely recommend this for everyone as it would also reduce cpu load from having a cron run on a daily schedule.

I hope this helps some of you with this issue, it sure helped me.

[Hank3rd]

Following up on my own thread. After a few emails back and forth with GoDaddy, we figured out that they were wrong in their first email and that ftp from inside out is not allowed - something about security risk (didnt make much sense, since ftp access from outside in is allowed). They offered to get a different plan that would cost about 10 times the price of what im paying now - not an option.
In case others here are in the same shoes , here's how i solved the problem:

- signed up for a free (ad based) hosting here: reallyfreehosting.com (there are other free hosts out there..
- wrote a script to create the product.xml file, download it from my site, and upload it to google
- put the script in a cron job on the free hosting site..dont forget to set it to executable.

here's the script (just replace all the variables and directories):

#!/bin/sh
USERNAME_TO="aaaaa"
PASSWORD_TO="bbbbb"
SERVER_TO="uploads.google.com"
USERNAME_FROM="xxxxx"
PASSWORD_FROM="yyyyy"
SERVER_FROM="your_domain.com"

FILE="zzzz_products.xml"
FEED_DIR="/{your_store}/feed"


#create new feed file
curl "http://{your_domain}.com/{your_store}/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=no&type=products"

sleep 10

echo
echo "file:$FILE created ... "
echo

# login to server and get product.xml file
ftp -n $SERVER_FROM <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD_FROM
cd $FEED_DIR
get $FILE
quit
EOF

echo "ftp download from server:$SERVER_FROM file:$FILE ...done!"


# login to google server and upload the file
ftp -n $SERVER_TO <<EOF
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD_TO
put $FILE
quit
EOF

echo "ftp upload to server:$SERVER_TO file:$FILE ... done!"
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I tried this and the cron job is giving me :"command not found"? Any ideas?

[Hank3rd]

This is a post from numinix web site about running cron jobs.

I hope this helps some of you with this issue, it sure helped me.

I am going to try this and see if it works, scheduled to go off at noon!

[Hank3rd]

Worked, thanks!

[countrycharm]

I'm glad you have it working.

[numinix]

I tried this and the cron job is giving me :"command not found"? Any ideas?

That method would defeat the purpose of a cron job and would take just as much time to upload your feed file directly through the Google website or with your own client FTP program.

The new method is the way to go and I will eventually update the documentation once I've tested it out myself.

[teebo]

Question about this mod:

Which version should I use for ZC version 1.3.7? Can I use the latest or do I need another version?

Thank you!

Would like to know this as well, I have an old version running on 1.3.7 of google froogle, and a google base feeder. Wanted to dl the newest version will it work on 1.3.7

[madfastride]

First off thanks for the contribution and support. I do however have one error on the feed that causes Google to break while processing the feed. It looks like an HTML character is the source of the problem "&uuml;". I replaced it with a regular "u" and everything worked fine. I am using 1.6.15 with zen 1.3.8. Does anyone else have problems with encoded letters? Should a string replace in zen_xml_sanitizer function be used to catch this?

I have just decided to change this character to a regular "U" in my admin due mainly to SEO reasons. I don't know if it matters for those or not but it's a select number of products so why not. Thought I might point this out.

Thanks