Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[frank18]

The manual execution in Admin > Tools > Google Merchant Center Feeder works ok and the xml feed is created.

But I am having a mongrel time with the cron job of this mod (and I am not a newbie with cron tabs ...)

Currently the tab looks like this:

wget http://mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp

(plus the necessary time and date params...)

It executes ok but does not save the xml file to the appropriate location

http://mydomain.com/feed/file_name_products.xml

feed directory is set to chmod 777

Also tried this variant

wget http://mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp > /home/myaccount/public_html/feed/file_name_products.xml

to no avail

Does anyone have an idea how to get on top of this please?

TIA / Frank

[delia]

I'm no expert and each server is different but I only need the first part of that wget http://mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp. I wasn't able to check to see if that first part is correct but looks like it at first glance.

If you've never run a cron job on your hosting before, check with your tech support about how to set it up in case it's different.

[frank18]

....If you've never run a cron job on your hosting before, check with your tech support about how to set it up in case it's different.

Thanks delia. As I mentioned in my previous post I am certainly *not* a newbie with cron - currently running 6 jobs on one site including daily DB dumps.

May have to get in touch with my techies....

[buildingblocks]

The manual execution in Admin > Tools > Google Merchant Center Feeder works ok and the xml feed is created.

But I am having a mongrel time with the cron job of this mod (and I am not a newbie with cron tabs ...)

Currently the tab looks like this:

wget http://mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp

(plus the necessary time and date params...)

It executes ok but does not save the xml file to the appropriate location

http://mydomain.com/feed/file_name_products.xml

feed directory is set to chmod 777

Also tried this variant

wget http://mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp > /home/myaccount/public_html/feed/file_name_products.xml

to no avail

Does anyone have an idea how to get on top of this please?

TIA / Frank

In admin, configuration > Google Merchant Center Feeder Configuration

what is the output directory set to?

[frank18]

In admin, configuration > Google Merchant Center Feeder Configuration

what is the output directory set to?

setting is feed/

[frank18]

Fixed it

implemented this cron

curl https://mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp

but had to comment out line 54 of mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php from

 if ($key != GOOGLE_BASE_KEY) exit('<p>Incorrect key supplied!</p>');

to

// if ($key != GOOGLE_BASE_KEY) exit('<p>Incorrect key supplied!</p>');  // commented out for testing of cron job - frank18

as the script stopped at this point (the feed is set to be fetched by the relevant services and no key is required)

works a treat now and returns this in the cron email:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
100 269 0 269 0 0 112 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 231
100 269 0 269 0 0 112 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 230
Google Merchant Center Feeder v1.9.0 started 2011/06/03 19:32:02<br />
Feed file - /home/myaccount/public_html/feed/my_name_products.xml<br />
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No<br />
~~~~~~<br />
Google Merchant Center File Complete In 2.043967 Seconds 399 Records<br />

[delia]

You don't have to comment out those lines. I think if you add this to the end of your url it would work: &key=YOURKEYHERE

Though I've not had any problems getting it to work without the key. Maybe using curl makes the difference?

The key is listed in the config settings - the first one.

Glad you figured it out!

[LVT LTD]

Is there a 400 product limit on this feed?

[delia]

No, I've imported over 2000 products at a time.

[fakeDecoy]

v 1.9.1

I have this running as a cron job:

http://www.mysite.com/googlefroogle....y_tp&key=MYKEY

I receive this line in an email on execution of the cron job:

<p>Incorrect key supplied!</p>

I checked and double checked the key value in admin against the key parameter value in the cron job, and it's the same. I then changed the value on both to a new key, and I still get the error.