Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[robsnowden]

Hi

Installed this great mod for the first time tonight here in the UK and think that I have followed everything to the last letter but when I try to upload the feed I get this:

Google Base Feeder v.1.6.11 03.27.2008 00:05:59 started 2008/04/07 00:03:19
Feed file - /home/ragdisk/public_html/feed/pleasuredisc_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Login failed:
Connected to: uploads.google.com
Upload failed...
I can't think that it is far away but please could you help me get it working?

Thanks

Rob

[robsnowden]

As an additional piece of info which may be related, I did upload the xml file manually to google (from within google) and although it says the upload was successful using this method if I click on the details link it shows a whole list of errors:

We didn't understand some of the XML formatting in your file. You may be missing a tag or have a nesting or formatting error. - help
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Any ideas??

:)

Rob

[garyw]

Rob

Hello from the UK too.

I think you may have 3 problems as I just solved the issues you had.

Firstly the file needs to be a .xml in the google base setup menu. Not .txt. If you make it a .txt then it will not be recognised and you will have loots of syntax errors reported.

Be careful if you rename a file to .xml from .txt I have had prob with it not 'really' being recognised as .xml ; so create it correctly first time.

I had issues with 'googlecheckout' errors ( my GCO is installed but not active - however GB feeder seems to want to include it anyway and it fails) so I did a search and replace for the GCO xml lines - quite simple.

finally even if you ask for the fine gooolebase.xml you may get products_gooblebase.xml. If you have registered google.xml as your feed, then the upload from zc will fail.

I still cannot get the upload to work from inside zc (the gco lines still have to be removed) but I did at last get a feed to work, and its better than doing it by hand !!!

Gary

Secondly the

[techawave]

when I try to do the Create/Upload Feed through the zen cart admin, 90% of the time it'll do this:


to


http://techawave.jitbid.com/techawave/googlefroogle.php

Actually it's still doing this to me. Does the google feeder have trouble with big files? I have about 16,000 items and google feeder and cron job have seemed to stop creating and uploading the xml file to Google Base once I jumped from 11,000 items to 16,000.

[techawave]

I still cannot get the upload to work from inside zc (the gco lines still have to be removed) but I did at last get a feed to work, and its better than doing it by hand !!!

Gary

Secondly the

To fix your GoogleCheckout problem, go to your ZenCart admin page then go to Configuration-> Google Base Feeder Configuration, then on the bottom you'll see:
Payments Accepted

Open that, and delete GoogleCheckout from it.

[SirBuck]

I have looked but didn't find and answer yet.

From Tools->Google Base Feeder..

I can create the product feed. However, when I go to "view" the product feed.. it is empty. No title, no description...no products.
If I download the .xml file and open it in a text editor, I can see the data though.

Has anyone had this problem with Google Base Feeder.

I am using the latest version, but the old version wasn't working either.

thanks,

[SirBuck]

ok .. to add to my last post..
In my browser, the feed is empty.. no title no description nothing.

But, if I view source everything is there.. title, itmes, everything.
So it just isn't displaying in my browser.

Any ideas?

[techawave]

ok .. to add to my last post..
In my browser, the feed is empty.. no title no description nothing.

But, if I view source everything is there.. title, itmes, everything.
So it just isn't displaying in my browser.

Any ideas?

Yeah it's just the way your browser is trying to view the xml file. Firefox for me tries to add my xml file as a RSS Feed bookmark. IE7 views it normally for me though.

[fvb]

[FONT=Times New Roman]I just installed is contribution[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Install seems to have went fine[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]My site has over 2000 products, but the feed only shows 380?[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Is there a time out setting or something that I’m missing?[/FONT]


thanks

[fvb]

the total changes each time i run it!!??????