Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[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.

[advplans]

Hi,

I'm using Zen 1.3.9h, I have the latest version 1.10.0 of the google merchant feeder installed. I just installed this mod recently, having a tough time working out the issues. I've search this thread and this forum, without finding a clear answer to this, so if I've missed this answer somewhere, sorry in advance.

I'm getting the dreaded

description length: 0 - skipped, price below zero, description length less than 15 chars, or title less than 3 chars - failed

error on probably about 2/3 of my products out of several hundred. From reviewing this thread, I gather the most probable cause is illegal characters in the title or description, but here is what is bugging me.

When I try to troubleshoot, I can delete a product description and replace with just a few lines of text, the product makes it through the feed. Then I can add more of the description back to the product, and it still makes it. Then, I can add my original description back and it makes it through again, even though it didn't make it through before. A few times later, it may puke back out when I run the feed, so what I'm having trouble doing is troubleshooting this error down to a root case. So, my question to the community is:

1. Specifically, on the published addon with no mods, exactly which characters in the description are illegal?

2. Specifically, which characters in the title are illegal?

3. Is there any way around that to make everything legal?

4. Is there anything else that would cause that error? Some of my product descriptions are really long, but some of the really long ones have no issues getting through. If that's an issue, is there a way to address that?

If anyone can help, thanks in advance.

[LVT LTD]

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

Is there a setting I need to change then?

[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.

[delia]

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:


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.

The only way I have been able to get the cron job to run is to comment out the key line:

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

in googlefroogle.php in the root directory.