Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[tj1]

I just was at Google Base browsing the FAQ and noticed they have a little desktop program called Google Base Store Connector. It allows you to publish your products from eBay stores, Yahoo stores and OSC stores, pretty neat! Here's the link: http://www.google.com/base/storeconnector

Too bad it doesn't support ZenCart yet. I just submitted my suggestion. I think support for ZenCart will be added in due time, after all ZC is superior to OSC and has a very large user base, just wished Google would realize this and give priority support to ZC. :)

Anyone who wants to submit a suggestion telling them you want support for ZenCart can do it here: http://base.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact=1

[tolefairy]

well, Dumbo reporting in here. I had a previous version of FG feeder and just installed 1.5.3 and am getting this error.

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /home2/shabecom/public_html/googlefroogle.php on line 67
Error opening google base output file "/home2/shabecom/public_html/feed/shabbychiccottagefeed.txt"

I have permissions set at 777.

I don't know what I need to do to fix this............any help appreciated.

[numinix]

well, Dumbo reporting in here. I had a previous version of FG feeder and just installed 1.5.3 and am getting this error.

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /home2/shabecom/public_html/googlefroogle.php on line 67
Error opening google base output file "/home2/shabecom/public_html/feed/shabbychiccottagefeed.txt"

I have permissions set at 777.

I don't know what I need to do to fix this............any help appreciated.

Delete your feed file and then run the script again, let it generate the file for you. Also, the file should be named .xml in all 1.5.x versions.

In 1.6.0, the feed file is just a word like shabbychiccottagefeed. It will automatically add _products.xml (for a product feed), _documents.xml (for a documents feed), and _downloads.xml (for a downloads feed).

I will be modifying the downloads feed to be similar to the products feed to support prices etc. I will also be looking to add the product-music and product-free shipping to have more unique attributes in upcoming 1.6.x versions.

[marvin]

I am using 1.5.3.

Everything is ok except google shows no images.
The latest "thought" from one of their techies is as follows:

"Hello Marvin,

Thank you for your email. I checked your image_links again and noticed
that you're content-type header is incorrect. Currently, your header line
is setting the value as "text/html;" however, an acceptable content-type
would be "image/jpeg" or "image/gif," depending on the format of your
image.

Please make sure that the header information is correct for your images;
otherwise, our image processor will be unable to cache a copy of your
image.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to respond
to this email."

Does this make sense? Does'nt the contribution have the correct header?

The read me file does not say anything about any changes to the header file.

Help, anyone?

Still need help with this image problem??????????????

[numinix]

I'm not an expert on XML so I don't know why this wouldn't work for you, but would work for everyone else.

Furthermore, there is no header in the file for text/html:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">
<channel>
.
.
.
</channel>
</rss>

[tolefairy]

Delete your feed file and then run the script again, let it generate the file for you. Also, the file should be named .xml in all 1.5.x versions.

ok, I deleted the shabbychiccottage.txt file on my server. Then ran the script again. It created a shabbychiccottage.txt file again but it's empty.

This is what it said:
Google Base Feeder v.1.5.3 28.08.2007 10:25 started 2007/09/19 19:50:00
Feed file - /home2/shabecom/public_html/feed/shabbychiccottagefeed.txt
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No
Google Base File Complete In 0.107445 Seconds 0 Records

so........it's not creating any records? Ftp is working fine BTW

I remaned the new file on my server with a .xml extension and ran the script again. same response. No records.

I've messed up somewhere.

Also I might add, in admin>configuration I now have TWO of these:
Google Base Feeder Configuration

Under admin>tools I only have one Google Base Feeder

Also after I run the script and get the above result and then click to view product feed file, I get a screen about LiveBookmarks and under that the title Shabby Chic Cottage and the rest of the page is blank.

Should I uninstall 1.5.3? What about the previous version I had? I copied and pasted all of the sql updates that were in the download for 1.5.3. There were 4 in a folder and then the one for 1.5.3.

TIA for any assistance..........

[numinix]

The sql for 1.4.9 should have changed the name to Google Base Feeder Configuration.

Use this to uninstall it:

SET @configuration_group_id=0;
SELECT @configuration_group_id:=configuration_group_id
FROM configuration_group
WHERE configuration_group_title= 'Google Froogle Feeder Configuration'
LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id;
DELETE FROM configuration_group WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id; 

See if that fixes it.

[tolefairy]

ok I used that to uninstall. Ran it as a sql patch.

I still have two, repeat two, "Google Base Feeder Configuration" in my drop down menu of admin>configuration
One asks id and such and the other asks for my domain name and store description. They are completely different configs but have the same name in the drop down. Is this correct? Should there be two?

Ran the script again and same thing.............0 records

Maybe if I uninstalled everything related to froogel/google feeder?

[numinix]

Oops, I thought you had one installation called Google Froogle Feeder Configuration

Run the same patch but replace the name with

Google Base Feeder Configuration

Run it twice and then run the SQL of the version you want to install.

If installing 1.6.1, you'll need to re-register your file name as it now appends the feed content type in the title to distinguish different feeds from each other _products _documents _downloads and eventuallly _music

[tcustomgolf]

Hmm...just installed 1.61 (an upgrade from 1.53) and all seems to work but get this repeating stuff in the admin? Just copied the zip files up to my host, no SQL changes...